A bit of a naive question, I suspect! But, if Zolan was going to blackmail Lazlo, wouldn't he be implicating himself as well? Looking at it from a coldly practical standpoint.
After all, Zolan was scarcely less guilty in all those massacres in Hungary 40 years earlier.
One possibility is that Zolan was the 'camera man', so he didn't appear in the photos.
Excellent point and one that hadn't occurred to me as I was watching the movie.
It's an example of what Alford Hitchcock used to call an "icebox moment." That's a flaw in the story that doesn't occur to you as you're actually watching the movie. Then, later on, when you're in the kitchen fixing yourself a midnight snack, you yank open the fridge and it suddenly dawns on you "Wait a minute -- why would the villains need a bi-plane to murder Cary Grant? Why couldn't they just shoot him on the train instead??"
True, but maybe Zolan was hoping to get immunity by turning over someone who was obviously guilty.
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