The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23
The Case Against the Bolshevih
An Amazing Series of Official Documents, Pub.
ltshed by the American Government, Prov
ing Lenine and Trotzky Were
German Agents.
DOCUMENT NO. s,

DOCUMENT NO. s. 49,.
(Gr. (GreaD General Staff Central Abtheilung
(DiVision), Section M, October, 1917, BerlinJ
Secret Department No. 81.
To the Council of Peoples Commissairs:
In accordance with the agreement which took
place in Kronstadt in July of the present year
between officials of our general staff and leaders
OF the Russian revolutionary army and dennoc.
racy Messrs. Lenin, Trotsky, RaskolnikoF, and
Dybcnko, the Russian division of general
staff operating in Finland is ordering to Petro.
grad officers for the disposal of the information
department Of the staff At the, head of the
Petrograd division will be the following officers,
who use the Russian language perfectly and who
are acquainted with Russian conditions:
Maj. Lubers cipher signature Agasfer.
Mai. Won Boelke, cipher signature schott.
Maj. Baycrmeister, cipher signature Bcr.
Lieut.. Hartwig, cipher signature Heinrich
The espionage department in accordance with
the agreement with Messrs. Lenfn, Trotsky, and
ZenoieH, Will have the surveillance OF the for
eign embassies and military missions and on
the counter-revolutionary movement and also
Will perform the espionage and counter -espion-
age work the internal fronts, for which pur-
pose agents will be assigned to the espionage
cities
Coincidently it is announced that at the dis
posal Of the Government of Peoples Commssars
are assigned consultants to the ministry of for
ministry Of finance, Mr.. Won Ton-Chief of the
Russian division, German General staff, o.
Rausch; Adjutant. u. Wolff.
(And below on the same letter:)
To the Commissariat Foreign Affairs:
The officers indicated in this paper have been
before the military revolutionary committee and
have agreed on conditions with Muravieff, Bole,
and Danshevski with regard to their mutual
activities. They have all come under the direc-
ton Of the committee. The consultants will ap
pear called for.-Chairman Military Revolu
tonary committee, Council Of Workers and Sol
diers deputies A. Joffe; Secretary, P. Krush-
avitch
Note-Here is the working compact. If
Rausch was then in Berlin he presumably came
Immediately, afterwards to Petrograd. 1t is
more probable that the letter written in
Finland than Berlin. In other letterheads
on which Berlin is printed the word is
through with pen. Stationery hard to get
in Petrograd. Maj. Luberts became the head
of the information or intelligence bureau Mach
richten bureau). Kronstadt was the midsummer
headquarters Of Lenin. Raskolnikoff has been
referred to in connection with the project to sell
the Russian fleet to Germany. Dybenko
the commissar of the fleet, the naval minister a
driving man and keen witted. zinovief is the
president Of the Petrograd soviet during the
winter the most powerful Of the local bodies" of
the Russian soviets. He is Jewish and we'll edu-
Gated Joffe, in the letter of BolsheVick accept
ance of the German compact, again stands forth
for what he is, the spokesman, after Lenin in
all matters Of supreme Importance to Germany.
Have photograph of the joint letter