Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Chapter 16 draws upon a series of sketches drawn in 1937 and 1940 by Gustav Szinda, a Comintern intelligence official who also served in the International Brigades. His sketches convey a political demonology that depicts perceived relations among individuals and parties that opposed the Popular Front, Spanish Republic, and Communist parties. The chapter also draws upon his 1940 written reports to explore those whom he deemed “hostile elements” who supported left-wing “counterrevolutionary groups” in Spain. He focused primarily on Trotskyists, the POUM, dissident German communists, German revolutionary socialists, who he believed used membership in such parties as a cover for their fascist operations. His two 1937 sketches were efforts to understand what had happened to Marc Rein.</jats:p>