The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-03
BOLSHEVIK PLOT
AGAINST US. Barred
Paper Purporting to Designate
HarolfC. Keyes as Lenine
Agent Found.

What Federal authorities consider to
be evidence of far reaching Bolshevik
plot against this Government was UNI
covered yesterday with the seizure OF
paper purporting to be commission
issued by Nicholas Lenine to Harold c.
former secretary OF the League of Con-
scientious Directors in this city.
The paper came into the Governments
hands in a mysterious manner. 1t was
ct first said that a woman had acci-
dentally discovered It when she picked
up a lost wallet at Grand Central Sta
ton. An investigation at that terminal.
however. discredited this report, and II
Is believed that the paper was recovered
by secret operatives who have been
watching the activities Of Reyes.
Commission Is All Embra cling.
The Commission" as the paper is de-
scribed bears the date of April II, 1918,
and purports to come from Petrograd.
1t appears to convey great powers to
the holder. stating that he Ia the per-
sonal representative of the head OF the
! Soviet Government and that his work is
OF such secret nature that even the
Eolshevilk organizations OF this country
eie to know nothing about II. 1t reads
az follows:
The bearer. Harold C. Keyes, is a
trusted friend of the Government of
| Russian Soviets. He Is personally In
trusted with an important secret mis-
sion in the United States. 1t Is my
wish that he neither communicate
nor reveal his official secret mission
to any one Of the existing organiza-
lions now working in the interest of
the Soviets in America He has been
instructed not to use this letter OF
| commission except in an emergency.
! All concerned will govern themselves
| accordingly NICHOLAS LEVINE.
This paper was printed in both Eng
lish and Russian, and 1t was said thai
with II the operatives seized letters O.
| credit OF startling size.
Following this find. it became know
yesterday that Reyes has been on {
Government suspect roll for some rim'
and that operatives have reported tina
he has been receiving large quantities
of mail from various parts of the coun
try. This led a while ago to a sus
picion that he was engaged in EXTENSIVE
propaganda work OF some kind whicl
required much correspondence witt
agents in other parts of the Unite
States
Arrested ms Draft PIotter.
Federal authorities have known hin
as an anti-draft schemer. and it was 4
this capacity that he was arrested b,
agents OF the Department of Justice Il
the early days of the war. He was
member of the Young Democracy" blu
was dropped for some unknown reason
He was also dropped from the Brother
hood OF Railroad Trainmen, a patriot
organization that would not brook hi
radical tendencies. He has written 10
radical publications at times. and ha
attempted to insert himself into labo
bodies with little success so far a
known.
At the official headquarters of tn
Bolsheviki the offices of the Russia
Soviet Government Bureau at 10 We,
Fortieth street. the report of the GOV
ernments discovery caused great SUI
prise
]. c. X. Martens head OF the burea
said that he had never heard of Keye
and that he could not understand WI
Lenine should carry on operations b
hind the backs Of his regularly autho
ICED representatives, as the paper WOO
tend to indicate.