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Major Charles D. Westcott, the American consul in Paris, reported to Washington that he had received copies of the letter and the secret minutes in the summer of 1924-a few months before the American elections...
Butler has discovered however that Westcott delayed his report to Washington until November 28, 1924-just after the American elections-and instead told a prominent Philadelphia attorney, Dillworth P. Hibberd, about the minutes in August...
Hibberd wrote Westcott in September asking for confirmation of the authenticity of the secret minutes. He explained that a United States senator had expressed interest in "the matter of the support of one of the three candidates (LaFollette) by a foreign organization, and the amount of money said to have been paid in the said candidate's support...
...When Westcott could not find confirmation. Hibberd apparently dropped the idea of revealing the forged secret minutes...
Reilly, the alleged forger, might have had dealings with Westcott, Hibberd, and even Walter R. Batsell, the noted Harvard Sovietologist who acquired the Zinoviev photo-negatives and left them in the back vault of the Law School library...