The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-09
TRIAL OF SPIES
ATLENINGRAD
REVEALS CRIMES
ESthonian Agents Tell
of Plots
international Press Correspondence

international Press Correspondence
LENINGRAD, U. S. S. r., (By MaiD
The trial of the Esthonian spies,
held here the early part OF this year,
was most sensational event.
A whole gang Of these mensheviks,
whose plight has so much excited the
sympathy of the social-democratic
leaders and alleged liberals, such as
Roger Baldwin of the American Civil
Liberties Union, have testified one aft
er the other to the fact that they we're
hired to spy on the Workers Republic
and betray its military formations to
the militarists of the capitalist ma
tons. They are not backward in their
confessions. Spying is their particu-
lar profession.
Most are ex-czarist officers or gen
darmes who have served in the Rus
sian White Guard or Esthonian
armies. Lieutenant Snarsky, the ring
leader, took up the profession Of spy
ing after being thrown out of the Es-
thonian army for drunkenness. He
had established q network of agents.
One of these was the spy Gekonen,
who told Snarsky later that he was
also an agent of the British Intelli-
gence Department, which desired to
utilize the services" of the Estho-
nian spying organization, and also
spoke of a number of explosions be-
ing prepared on Soviet territory.
Lafr ronulc
managed to send "home" important
Soviet military secrets. Snarsky
smuggled cocaine in his spare time.
The Georgian Spies.
A no less illuminating spy case is
that of Kapiotn Andjaparidze, former
member Of hte Georgian Menshevik
government. He was recently caught
on the frontier in the company of q
well-known Polish spy. The capture
of Andjaparidze resulted from the un
earthing Of a whole network Of
Georgian Menshevik organizations il
the Ukraine. These organizations
with Kiev as their center, were links
in a aiaison service between the Geor
gian emigres in Paris and the Men
shevik plotters in Tifiis, via Warsaw
Kiev-Astrakhan. The whole banC
have been caught.
Andjaparidze was sent to Georges
by Moi Jordania, Tseretelli, ant
Gheghetchkori (the Foreign Bureau
of the Menshevik Party. His tasl
was to reform the illegal Central Com
mittee, and, in general, hatch plot
against the Workers and Peasants
government Of Georgia. He came t.
Russia via Warsaw, whence the ia
NOUS Second Bureau" of the Polisl
General Staff helped him across tn
frontier
1t has long been an established fac
that there is close contact betweel
the Menshevik foreign Bureau" an
the Polish Intelligence Department
The Georgian General Zakariadze j
their representative in Warsaw. In
nadze, former secretary of Jordanis
and organizer of the rising in Georgi
last year, entered the service of tn
Polish Secret Police at Lvoff, after h
escaped from Russia.
Polish MIIltarists Help.
The Menshevik prisoners on trif
not only confirm these connection
but also assert that the Georgia
Mensheviks in Paris have a definit
agreement with the Polish INTEL
gence Department. The Poles az
company all Menshevik agents acros
the frontier and in return the Geo
gians agree to give the Polish Gel
eraa STAFF copies of everything the
bring out Of Russia, before lettin
any other government have them.
Thus, in their efforts to max
Georgia ''safe for democracy" thes
members of the Second lnternationl
formed a united front with the Polls
military clique.
Controlled BY British.
The Esthonian General Stan hire
these spies. Esthonia has long bee
under the domination of the BIRTHS
who have made considerable loans
the country and have liaison office
In the Esthonian army itself.