New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
By Casirnir Pilenas
&C. P. Wilkins)

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A MONG the saddest incidents
~ in the lives of secret service
agents are those which make
them silent and impotent witnesses
to tragedies they have done their
best to forestall. Despite the fact
that my branch unearthed and re-
ported what was being hatched in
the United States for the undoing Of
Russia and the glory Of Germany,
no effective steps were taken to frus-
trate their designs or restrain their
activities.
For example, take those pillars Of
the latter revolution--Nikolai Le-
nine, "Premier," feminist, Bolshevik
and reputed hireling of Germany,
and Leon Trotzky, Foreign Minis
ter" Bolshevik, pro-German and
good friend and fellow conspirator
with Nikolai Lenine.
When the Imperial Government
of Russia was overthrown these two
industrious agitators and self-propa-
gandists, with eyes alert for the main
chance and foreseeing an era of rich
booty, became the arch disseminators
of opposition to the Provisional Gov
ernment by such insidious agents
as returning exiles circulating
among the armed forces of the coun-
try and preaching Bolsheviki doc
trines of sedition, and by their own
eloquent oratory, that appealed to
the aspirations of visionaries.
Thousands of such fugitive revo-
lutionaries, Socialists and agitators
of the Bolshevik school were brought
back to Russia via Bergen and
Stockholm at the expense of the
kerensky government, and when
travel by these routes became i'm
practicable many were sent to
Japan and Vladivostok and home
by rail across Siberia-a long, ex-
pensive journey. Once arrived in
Russia they were usually redistrib-
uted "along the front" that the
units Of the army and the navy
might be thoroughly inoculated with
The poison germs of the Bolshevik
Maxlmalists.
Bringing back these fugitives to
their native land was the plan Of
the idealists, Miliukoff among others,
fine minds moved by altruism and
with the single purpose of restoring
to these exiles their country with all
its new and glorious liberties.
Lenine Entered
Russia From Germany
Lenine, a huge baldheaded man
Of magnetic personality, had won-
derful influence over women and the
largest of all feminist followings. On
his return to Petrograd, from ST.
IBERIA, via Switzerland and Germany,
he appropriated to his use the beau
tiful Marinsky Palace in the Nevsky
Prospect, home of Nine. Kshes-
inska, dancer and former favorite of
Gar Nicholas. It was from this
palace, in the heart of Petrograd,
which for some inexplicab]e reason
he was allowed to occupy unmolest-
ed, that Lenine published his news
paper and conducted his damaging
propaganda.
Between Lenine, reputed to be a
nobleman named Ulyanoff, from the
government of Tula, not a Jew,
though once answering to the name
OF Zunderblum, and Leon Trotzky,
born to the Jewish appellation of
braunstein, Kerensky, the Russian
Provisional Government, the Allies
and the United States have not Jared
happily, to say the least.
Trotzky arrived in New Yorl.
early last year. He came openly.
l had been notified he was on his
way here. He was down as a 'ter-
rorist and agitator" in the records
OF Scotland :: Yard, where every "sus
j pect" is registered. Probably every
secret service in Europe had him
registered and watched. His record
was well known to me. But let u.
go back little.
All Nations Kept
Trotzky Moving
he mad been sent to Siberia fol.
lowing the revolution Of 1905. h,,
escaped some years later, probably
IN 1912 md c<oVvoI :. -. =.