Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-14
.TELLSOF EXPOSING
CONSPIRACY PACT
Edgar Sisson Explains How
He Obtained Evidence of
German oIshevik Plot.
WAS AIDED BY RUSSIANS
To the Editor Of The star;

WAS AIDED BY RUSSIANS
To the Editor Of The Star:
My attention has been called today.
on my arrival in Washington. to an
article in The Evening Star OF Tues
day. June 10. page Ave. headed. sis
son Letters Left From the War"
ask of The Evening Star the space
to make the following statements of
in the article. and am sure. as a mat
ter of newspaper fair play. you will
assent.
The letters. setting. forth the Ger
1bs sSe s,s poa
and never have been. Neither are
they in the files Of the committee on
public Information or In any place
clutter of zoo mail bags, as set forth
in the article. They are In govern
mental keeping. properly bestowed
One sealed packet contains them all.
None OF these letters was secured
from Raymond Robins.
None of these letters was secured
from the house of a Russian noble
man"
from various agents OF the United
States government"
Goes on Hunt for Actual Evidence.
Robins never saw the letters in my
report. To that report I added, as an
appendix. with carefully explained
introduction, that they were not a part
Of proof, a separate group Of letters
and kilograms published in Paris ami
in parts of Russia Robins had one
Al,
eventually came into my possession.
1t was these appendix letters that
sent me on the hunt for actual evil
dence.
Robins and discussed this early
data sharply.
for the truth. whatever that truth
might be. l believed that no Amer
can could do otherwise than give aid.
In his blind support Of the boishe-
viks Robins refused to take part in
any inquiry which might incriminats
him, woefully disappointed In him.
and obliged to guard my work from
him.
Robins and did not speak in the
last weeks he was in Petrograd, he
stalking from my room one night in
out of his position. and /. after hnal
effort. determining that the situation
he created should last through all
time.
In the way that, as Q Newspaper
man. I would have gone after Q big
news story, I dug then into the Ger
mon bolshevik conspiracy until I had
the bones of II.
Had Support Of Ambassador.
II had Robins hostility. I had tn
complete support of Ambassad...
Francis.
Within two weeks photographs g.
matter I wanted were being made
daily in the filerooms at Emolny, the
headquarters Of the bolsheviks
Then the week OF panic came-the
week preceding the signing OF the
mai fsH srsst, Litovsk treaty. the week
grad--and with panic came oppor-
tunity to get the original letters set
forth as such in my report. III 1
Robins knows, nothing OF that week
hitched his car onto the trains which
carried Ambassador Francis to vo-
logda. The departure of the ambas-
sador and the consulate was neces-
sary, as 1t would have been senseless
to give the Germans an opportunity
to laugh over the capture of high
American ofiiciale.
But why Robins took the Red Gross
return to Petrograd until the middle
of the next week, after the Brest-
Litovsk treaty had been signed. and
Petrograd was again safe enough for
a day or SO.
Aided by Brave Russians.
bolshevik secret department were be-
ing packed at Smolny for shipment
to Moscow, I made the plan to get
the originals. and brave and skillful
Russians carried it through to sue
cess.
Arthur Billiard and Malcolm Davis
of my own little American group
Ave Americans all told-gave me
splendid support in SPECIFIC roles. NY
own role then was to get the material
out of Russia and to America, which
the Brest-Litovsk peace was signed.
Billiard remained in Petrograd for
three weeks longer. coming out from
Moscow to Archangel to the United
tinue on again to Siberia-there to
remain until last January.
No legitimate contention against
the authenticity OF the letters ever
has been made. None can be made.
They are the truth, and SO attested
BY the National Board for Historical
Service, 30 accepted by Russian schol-
ars in Europe. and SO conceded in
Germany itself.
Two of the German orders were
known to me before they were car
ried out. One was obeyed while !
waited, and the other came along in
schedule a little later.
The cynical bolsheviks in Russia it
self never would have denied the aliega-
lions, if they had not known they had
dupes who would go shrieking through
the world denying for them.
The bolshevik answer to evidence
against them is forgery"
The bolshevick answer to the charge
of murderous bomb throwing is pro
vocateur police plot"
When Americans finally understand
that bolshevilss LAUNCH most at 'bour-
geois morality and bourgeois ethics"
they will discount bolshevik alibis.
Analysed Pitilessly in Berlin.
And while the American friends of
the bolsheviks attack the matter of fact
truth set forth in my report. the oficial
denial couched in their
language has been analysed pttilessly
by the Berlin Tageblatt. Prof. Hans
Worst over his signature stated In the
TaEeblatt that after inquiry in Russia
at the scene itself he was Obliged To
admit reluctantly" that the documents
were authentic, that the German general
stan had branch in Petrograd from the
beginning Of the bolshevik revolution
out with alacrity by Lenin and Trotsky.
The admission was reprinted entire
In Switzerland the first week in
March.