TROTSKY ASSASSIN IS SUBJECT OF FILM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300140007-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 19, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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Is Subject of Film
-- -- By SHEILAII GRAHAM;
LONDON - The man who. plauded. Raquel was new and:business for 20 years. He
killed Leon Trotsky will tell probably insecure." 'started with "The Man Who
the story to Jose[ Shaftel, an * * * * -Watched the Trains Go By,"
American film and television ? I asked Joe whether he starring the late Claude Rains.
producer who has settled in thought Raquel would be good He was a musician who said
England. as Myra Breckinridge in thelf"One day I'll be a producer.'t?
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for his current schedule of are strong and powerful the:
eight films to be made all over way men are supposed to be. i
the world. Raquel has always been deter-`
"When he was arrested in mined and has always known'
Mexico and sentenced to 20 where she was at. This 'atti-.1
years and a day--4hey re- tude can make you lose some
leased him two weeks before femininity.
that-he wouldn't talk; he Now to Shaftel's schedule.
.didn't give his name of his "We've just released 'The
:nationality. When he left pris- Last Grenadc'-it was 'Grigs-
on, he changed his name. He by'-with Stanley Baker, Alex,
lives in Prague, he is married Cord and Richard Attenbor-
and has two children, and ough. We have finished 'Ask
works as an assistant photog- Agemnon,' with Judy Geeson.
rapper." ?' and Martin Potter. We aret
Shaftel is making a film on now filming 'Say Hello to Yes-
the assassination of Trotsky, terday,' with Joan Simmons ~
who was banished from Russia and Leonard Whiting, who was.
by Stalin in 1929. After roam- 'Romeo in Zeffirelll's picture.
Ing the world, he finally found On April 15 we start 'The Stat-
a haven in Mexico in 1937. He ue' with David Niven and Rob-
was murdered there in August ert Vaughn.
of 1940 by the man who will "The Trotsky film, 'The
now tell all, in the interests of Mind of an Assassin,' will be,
.Shaftel's film. And for a fee, made in Mexico. Ian Hunter is
although the money is not as in Prague talking to the man.
important as getting the facts who killed him.
straight. It will make an inter. * * * *
esting film and book. "Another film on the
sched- ule is 'Masada.' This will be
I had asked Shaftel to tea the biggest project of my life.
not realizing the scoop he had Masada is the hill where Her
for me. I had been more Inter- od built his temple. When part
ested in the films he was plan- of it was excavated three
ning as an independent when years ago, Gen. Yadin re.
so many of the majors have vealel that the story written
closed their studios until more by Josephus 2000 years. ago,
money is available, was corroborated. Thirty-five
Shaftel made the first batch' years before the fall of Jeri
of "The Untouchables" TV eho, a group of zealots went to
shows, which, he told me, Masada in a last stand against
have made Robert Stack a the Romans. It took 10 Roman
millionaire. twice and a half legions to conquer the 960 zeal-
over. He also produced "The ots, who committed suicide
Biggest Bundle of Them All," rather than surrender.
, which starred Raquel Welch, "We will make this picture
and she seems to have been in Israel with the cooperation
the biggest headache of them of the Israeli government.
.ally Even today, every officer in,
Raquel thought she was al the Israeli air force takes the'
,big movie star," said Joe. oath to serve at Masada. ?ItF
,"She had to have a car biggeri will be an expensive picturep
than anyone else's. When she! r n the $3-$4 million class."'
was 40. minutes late with 200
extras waiting, I yelled at her w Shaftel has been, in the f lm~;
,and 4he entire Italian ere ! app-
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