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Notkin's denial: no anti-American ties, only "individually neurotic agendas"; but "Death incarnate"

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pivotal · 7 Nov YDAU — separatist-ties crux, evidence AGAINST

  • When: 7 Nov YDAU, Notkin's party interrogation
  • What: The direct counterweight to events 4/30/31. Molly Notkin tells her interrogators that, "far be it from her to tell the U.S. Office of Unspecified Services its business," the auteur's widow surely has no real connections "to any anti-American groups, cells, or movements, no matter what the files on her indiscreet youth might suggest, since from everything Molly Notkin's heard the woman didn't have much interest in any agendas larger than her own individually neurotic agendas." She also relays Joelle's view of the widow as "Death incarnate" and a "restaurant-silencer-type beauty even in her late forties." So the separatist-ties evidence is genuinely two-sided — the R.C.M.P. list and JOI's/Steeply's dossiers against Notkin's flat denial of any real politics. The timeline records both and resolves neither.