According to his own testimony, he never actually saw things as shaped but only as generally amorphous `` blots '' of color of a more or less indefinite size ; ;

According to Congressional testimony, the CIA experimented with utilizing LSD and hypnosis for mind control.

According to Kunz's testimony, he gave the children morphine injections but it was Magda Goebbels and Stumpfegger, Hitler's personal doctor, who then administered the cyanide.

According to the official 1955 testimony of his NKVD bodyguards, colonels R. S.

According to Ağca's later testimony, he met with three accomplices in Rome, one a fellow Turk and the other two Bulgarians.

According to the Midrash, only the Pharaoh was spared to give testimony to the miracle that occurred.

According to Irenaeus, Polycarp was a companion of Papias, another " hearer of John " as Irenaeus interprets Papias ' testimony, and a correspondent of Ignatius of Antioch.

According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U. S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.

According to further testimony by Sheikh Mohammed, bin Laden preferred the Capitol over the White House as a target and Sheikh Mohammed revealed that the interview to Fouda was a lie to make the 9 / 11 attacks seem larger than they were.

According to Congressional testimony, Daugherty allegedly arranged for Jess Smith and Howard Mannington to sell these permits to drug company agents who in actuality represented bootleggers.

According to the testimony of Julius Caesar, the Gaulish language proper was distinct from the Aquitanian language and the Belgic language.

According to testimony of SS officers, men were always gassed first from the transports, while women and children waited outside the gas chamber for their turn.

According to the testimony of State Police investigators, two jammed automatic pistols were discovered near Foerster's body.

According to the testimony of Irenæus ( Against Heresies III. 3. 3 ), he suffered a " glorious " martyrdom.

According to the sworn testimony of his companions, he was promptly disappointed with her appearance, although there are many documents from the time which describe how Henry and some of his courtiers sneaked into the room where Anne was watching bull-fighting, wearing masks and cloaks, when Henry boldly kissed her.

According to a testimony delivered by missionary Ralph L. Phillips to the U. S. State Assembly Investigating Committee, he was " forced to watch while the Japs disembowled a Chinese soldier " and " roasted his heart and liver and ate them ".

According to the Nyaya school, there are exactly four sources of knowledge ( pramāṇas ): perception, inference, comparison, and testimony.

According to the testimony of a truck driver named Hofer, victims were ordered to undress and beaten if they resisted:

According to the Libel Act 1843, proving the truth of the accusation and a public interest in its exposure was a defence against a libel charge, and Wilde's lawyers concluded that the prostitutes ' testimony was likely to do that.

According to Smart's October 1, 2009 US federal court testimony, after Smart had gone to bed on June 4, 2002, a man Smart identified as Brian Mitchell had entered her bedroom and had " placed his hand on my chest and then put the knife up to my neck.

According to J. P. Kirsch, the author of the article in the Catholic Encyclopedia from which the information in this section is drawn, the testimony to the public veneration of the three saints in the fifth century proves positively that they are historical martyrs.

According to the testimony of Bernadette Soubirous, the Virgin Mary spoke to her ( Lourdes, 25 March 1858 ) in Gascon saying: Que sòi era Immaculada Concepciou (" I am the Immaculate Conception ", the phrase is reproduced under this statue in the Lourdes grotto with a non-standard spelling ), confirming the proclamation of this Catholic dogma four years earlier.

According to Grinnell's account, based on the testimony of the Cheyenne warriors who survived the fight, at least part of Custer's command attempted to ford the river at the north end of the camp but were driven off by stiff resistance from Indian sharpshooters firing from the brush along the west bank of the river.

According to a victims brother, Mirtala Linares ', testimony, “ He wouldn ’ t tell us anything ; he claimed they hadn ’ t captured, that he knew nothing of his whereabouts – and that maybe my brother had gone as an illegal alien to the United States!

According to Pasternak himself, Stalin declared, " Do not touch this cloud dweller.

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

According to Ivinskaya, " After this, in conversation with people he scarcely knew, he always referred to Stalin as a ' murderer.

According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak had regarded Stalin as a, " giant of the pre-Christian era.

According to A & E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her.

According to G. Lisichkin, Marxism – Leninism as a separate ideology was compiled by Stalin in his book " The questions of Leninism ".

According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: " a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people ;" " a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people "; " a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation "; " a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

" According to Stalin, this would exclude Jews as they have no common territory.

" According to various eyewitnesses, Stalin appeared uninterested.

According to Nikolay Polyakov, Stalin purportedly created a special " Deportation Commission " to plan the deportation of Jews to these camps.

According to Hua-yu Li, writing in Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948-1953 in 1953, Mao, misled by glowing reports in History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Bolshevik ): Short Course, authorized by Stalin of social and economic progress in the Soviet Union, abandoned the liberal economic programs of " New Democracy " and instituted the " general line for socialist transition ", a program to build socialism based on Soviet models.

According to the biography of Zhou, however, Zhou told others that Zhang ’ s application was opposed by Stalin, as he thought Zhang's status as a warlord made him a poor candidate for CPC membership.

According to Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin was very abusive toward Alliluyeva in the later part of their marriage.

According to this decree Stavka was composed of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko ( as its president ), the head of General Staff Georgy Zhukov, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Semyon Budyonny and the People's Commissar ( Narkom ) of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov.

According to one source the arrest was partially triggered by letters which he and Raphael Shapiro sent to Stalin, ministers and newspapers about certain decisions made by the Soviet Government, which they believed were erroneous.

According to Time magazine, " A lower court had found that Chambers, in his mistaken identification, had not maliciously implied that Willy was closely associated with ' a Communist leader and spy '," who had been " once ( until Stalin liquidated him ) Communist Hungary's puppet Commissar of War.

According to the editor of a volume of his writings on Spain, Cockburn formed a personal relationship with Mikhail Koltsov, " then the foreign editor of Pravda and, in Cockburn's view, ' the confidant and mouthpiece and direct agent of Stalin in Spain '.

According to Kalugin, Stone followed a practice of having lunch with a Soviet press attaché from time to time, but broke off this luncheon relationship after his first visit to the Soviet Union in 1956 and after hearing Nikita Khrushchev's " Secret Speech " denouncing Stalin and the tyranny of his regime.

According to Gaddis, Stalin was in a much better position to compromise than his Western counterparts, given his much broader power within his own regime than Truman, who had to contend with Congress and was often undermined by vociferous political opposition at home.

According to Simon Sebag Montefiore, Joseph Stalin regarded Tukhachevsky as his bitterest rival and dubbed him Napoleonchik ( little Napoleon ).

According to Orlov, Stalin uncovered the conspiracy and used Yezhov to execute those responsible.

According to Montefiore, Stalin had always known that the Red Army was the only institution which could have resisted his quest for absolute power.

According to archival evidence Stalin called Platonov " fool, idiot, scoundrel ", then later in the same meeting said Platonov was " a prophet, a genius.