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...agency has a huge network of informers within the U.S.S.R., and it can often veto applications for new jobs, visas and university admissions. It operates prison camps and mental hospitals and directs the Soviet campaign against dissidents. Lubyanka Prison, where victims of Stalin's purges, such as Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, were executed, is part of the 2 Dzerzhinsky Square complex of buildings...
Only Lenin offers a thread of continuity and legitimacy of rule for Russia's present, apparently divided leadership. Virtually all of Lenin's closest Bolshevik comrades-Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kamenev-were dishonored and murdered by Stalin. For 40 years, from Lenin's death in 1924 through Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, every Russian leader was irreversibly disgraced by his successors. Such an interruption in legitimate succession demands a fresh reinforcement of the link between the present leaders and the founding father...
Westcott reported to the U.S. in November that an anti-Bolshevik secret agent had given him a copy of the secret minutes in the first week of June, and a copy of the forged Zinoviev letter in October, Reilly, however, was on business in the United States from the spring of 1924 until July-a full month after Westcott said he got the minutes...
Even his acquisition of the photo-negative plates is shroudel in uncertainty. Was Batsell doing intelligence work on his buying tours in Europe? How did he come in contact with the rare photo-negative plates of the Zinoviev forgery? Did he know Reilly...
Butler admits there is only the slimmest evidence that Batsell was involved in the forgery, but says that people seriously interested in the Zinoviev affair should look into the American angle more closely...