The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-15
Document No. S.
lGr. (Great) General Staff. Central
Abtheilung (Division). Section NJ,
October, 1917, Berlin1

tGr. (Great) General Staff. Central
Abtheilung (Division), Section NJ,
October. 1917. Berlin.I
SECRET DEPARTMENT NO. 81.
To the Council OF Peoples Commits
sairs: In accordance with the agree
ment which took place In Kronstadt in
July OF the present year between Of
ficials OF our General staff and leaders
OF the Russian revolutionary army and
democracy. Messrs. Lenin. Trotsky,
Raskolnikov. and Dybenko. the Rus
sian division OF our General Staff OPP
Grating in Finland is ordering to Petro-
grad officers for the disposal Of the in
formation 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 condi-
tions
MAI. Luberts. cipher signature
Agasfer.
Maj. Won Boelke, cipher sigma
ture Schott.
Maj. Bayermeister, cipher sig
nature Der.
Lieut.. Hartwlg. cipher sigma
ture Heinrich.
The espionage department, in ac-
cordance with the agreement with
Messrs. Lenin. Trotsky. and Zenoieff.
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 counterespionage work
on the internal fronts. for which pur-
pose agents will be assigned to the
espionage cities.
Coincidentally, II Ia announced that
at the disposal of the Government of
Peoples Commissars are assigned con-
eultants to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Mr.. Won Schoenemann, and to
the Ministry Of Finance Mr.. Won Toll.
Chief of the Russian Division, Ger
man General STAFF. o. Rausch Adju-
tant. U. Wolff.
(And beloU on the same lettcr)
To the Commissariat on Foreign
Affairs: The officers indicated in this
paper have been before the military
revolutionary committee and have
agreed on conditions with Muravieff,
Boie and Danishevski with regard to
their mutual activities. They have all
come under the direction OF the COM
mittee. The consultants will appear
as called for.-Chairman Military
Revolutionary Committee, Council Of
Workers and Soldiers Deputies, A.
Joffe; Secretary. p. Krushavitch.
NorE.-Here IS the tporkin0 compact
II Rausch tcoS then in Berlin he pre-
sumdbly came Immediately afterwards Z
Petro0rdd. II Is more probable that tn
letter Uas ,oritten in Finland than Der
lin. In some other IetterheddS on ,chic
Berlin Is printed the cord Is run fhrouO
Dtth a pen. Stationery ,Cas hard to %
IN PefroDrdd. Maj. Luberts became tn
head OF the Information or inteHi0enc
bureau (Ndchrichten bureau. fron
stddt t1ds the midsummer hcddqudrtcr
OF Lenirt. RuskoIniko1 tcIr be referre
to IN connection ,ofth the project to Sc
the Russian fleet TO Germany Dybenk
,rds the commtssar Of the fleet, the naro
minister, a driving man and keen trttteC
Zinorte6 Is the president Of the Petro
grad Soviet, during the Uinter the mos
po,oerful Of the local bodies Of the Rus
sian Sopiets. He is Jerish aud tceH edu
Gated. JoGe, in the letter Of Bolshcric
acceptance Of the German compdc
again stands forth for Whdt he is. III
spokesman, after Lenin. IA all matter
of supreme importance to Germany.
Have photograph Of the joint letter.