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...When the Zinoviev letter finally broke into the British press two days before the 1924 elections, several copies were known to be circulating among Western intelligence circles in Europe...
...letter was the key element in a lurid political intrigue centering around the heated British elections in 1924. Coming at the height of the "Red Scare," it purports to be from Grigori Zinoviev, President of the Communist International in Moscow, and instructs the British Communist Party to establish cells in the army and support the Labor Party...
Along with the text of the forged Zinoviev letter. Butler also discovered what purports to be "secret minutes" of a Soviet Comintern meeting. The minutes were intended to complement the text of the letter...
...British spy, he gained access to Comintern secret files so that heknew not only the style of Zinoviev's letters, but also the language and the personalities who might be involved, Butler said...
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...