[Aquinasfan]

Like a mafia don he doesn't come out and say "kill the guy". He merely states that "someday that man will be dead".

That's my feeling. But why would he do that? Was he afraid of a future Nuremburg trial?

[Straight Vermonter]

His own son-in-law had already defected and told all he knew to the CIA. He was being extraordinarily cautious.