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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (49068)	8/4/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: MNI	Respond to of 108807

I don't know enough to go on there. I wanted to show up a complexity. A terrible one. I have not yet said, because I am a little unsure about that, I think that person outlived the Nazi regime and tried to prove his "innocence" by unveiling opposedness to the Nazis on religious/cultural reasons and by alleged counter-Nazi action. It seems that he really had contacted some "channels" early on to make his internal knowledge of the CC killing process known to Western allied intelligence, I think he claimed he believed that some priest whom he was also confessing to would transport the info via Vatican to the US. Actually, I think, the exact details of the killing process were not important to the allies at that time. If you can't imagine killing yourself under that (or maybe under any other) circumstances it seems you believe in a logical and practical approach to decisions so much that you won't feel his complexity. I would assume that suicide (as well as murder) decisions can be taken on a symbolical level. But even if that weren't true, the horrendous number of death that had been, in a way, carried out by his hand, might justify a little logical jump. While in exact mathematics 1 by 6 million is clearly different from zero, in most situations of practical mathematics the difference doesn't matter. I bet you can bring man to the moon if you equalize those two. But I don't actually like to discuss further in that direction. Regards, MNI.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (49068)	8/4/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

SR, I see now that you are British, not American. Is that true? MNI.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (49068)	8/4/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

I would venture that if the fellow was not devout, the suicide makes good sense. Life was irredeemable psychic pain, and death brought deliverance. <edit> On a purely technical level the choice of Zyklon B (anhydrous hydrogen cyanide) as a killing agent mystifies me. It is an unpleasant if rapid death. Carbon monoxide (pure from a tank) would be a little less quick but much "cleaner" and more peaceful. Carbon monoxide from exhaust is mixed with nasty yucky things - pure it is odorless.