The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-16
LENINE-TROTZKY
GERMAN AGENTS
Proof Of Their Treachery
to Russia is
Found
SECRET PAPERS
ARE GIVEN OUT
German War Plan is Dis
closed-Evidence of Plot
Against America

Washington, Sept l6.-The committee
on public information releases for publ
cation, beginning to-day, series Of com
munications between the German impe-
rial government and the Russian bclshe
vik government and between the bolshe-
Wiki themselves, and also the report
thereon made to George Creel by Edgar
Sisson, the committees special represen-
tative in Russia during the winter of
l9l7-lS. These documents show that the
present heads of the bolshevik govern
ment-Lenine and Trotzky and their as
sociatesare German agents.
They show that the bofshevik revolu-
ton was arranged for by the German
great general staff and financed by the
German imperial bank and other Ger
man financial institutions. They show
that the treaty of Brest- Litovsk was a
betrayal of the Russian people by the
German agents, Lenine and Trotzky
that German picked commander was
chosen to defend" Petrograd against the
Germans; that German officers have been
secretly received by the bolshevik gov
eminent as military advisers, as spies
upon the embassies of Russia's allies, as
officers in the Russian army, and as di-
rectors of the bolshevik military, foreign
and domestic policy.
They show, in short, that the present
bolsheyik government is not a Russian
government at all, but German govern
ment, acting solely in the interests of
Germany and betraying the Russian peo-
pie, as it betrays Russias natural allies,
for the benefit of the imperial German
government alone. And they show also
that the bolshevik leaders, for the same
German imperial ends, have equally be-
trayed the working classes of Russia
whom they pretend to represent,
The documents are some 10 in number.
Many are originals, annotated by boil
shevik officials. The balance of the 9TH
ers are photographs of originals, show
ing annotations. And they corroborate
a third set of typewriter circulars tsee
appendix later of which only two orig
inals are possessed, but all of which fit
perfectly into the whole pattern of Ger
man intrigue and German guilt.
The first document is a photograph OF
a report made to the bolshevik leaders
by two of their assistants, informing
them that in accordance with their in
structions, there had been removed from
the archives of the Russian ministry of
Justice the order of the German Imperial
bank allowing money to Comrades Le-
nine, Trotzky and others for the propa-
ganda of peace in Russia; and that, at
the same time, "all the books" of bank
in Stockholm had been audited" to con-
ceal the payment of money to Lenine,
Trotzky and their associates by order of
the German Imperial bank.
This report is Endorsed by Lenine,
with his initials, for deposit in "the Sc
cret department" of the bolsheyik files.
And the authenticity of the report is
supported by document No. 2, which is
the original of a report sent by a Ger
man general staff representative to the
bolshevik leaders, warning them that he
had just arrested an agent who had in
his possession the original order of the
German Imperial bank referred to in
document No |, and pointing out that
evidently at the proper time steps were
not taken to destroy the above men
toned documents"
Document No is the original pro-
toeol signed by several boishevik leaders
and dated Nov. 2, 1917, showing that
ION instructions of the representatives Of
the German general staff in Petrograd'
and with the consent of the council Of
peoples commissars,' of which Trotzky
and Lenine were,the heads, two incrim-
mating German circulars had also been
taken from the department of secret
service of the Petrograd district" and
given TO the secret service department OF
the German general staff in Petrograd
On the bottom of the protocol the Ger
man adjutant acknowledges receipt OF
the two discriminating circulars with his
cipher signature. And to complete the
evidence the circulars are themselves
penciled with the cipher signature OF