The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
DEATH OF SPY
BARES GIGANTIC
FORGERY PLOT
Amazing Story Of Intrigue,
Fraud and Murder Is
Brought to Light.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP STMMS
Foreign Editor, scripps-Howard Newspapers

BI WILLIAM Fk11LAE CA1sALMO
Foreign Editor, scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. - No
blood land thunder thriller contains
anything more astounding than the
confession of the Russian spy who
recently was stood up against wall
in Moscow and shot for crimes
against the state"
Sergey Druzhilovsky was his name
and his favorite racket was to
turn out spurious state documents"
to order, such as those just exposed
by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania,
bearing the forged signatures OF
Senators Borah and Norris, two of
the best known and. most highly
esteemed members of the United
States senate.
Only 80 years old at the time OF
his sudden and dramatic demise,
Druzhilovsky for years had been the
center of gang OF international
spies and forgers of state papers
whose amazing activities overthrow
governments, provoked notifications
of country against country, and sent
hundreds of innocent victims, men,
women and children, to their doom.
Game Still Alive
Though Druzhilovsky is in his
grave his body riddled by the bull
let's of firing squad, the game
which he helped invent still is very
much alive. The documents ex-
posed by the Reed committee OF
the senate prove that.
Druzhilovsky and his ring stopped
at nothing. The reputation OF dip
lomats and statesmen meant less
than nothing to them. They even
connived at the planting Of highly
destructive bombs in crowded public
places, to give the appearance OF
TRUTH to their forced documents.
They almost caused a war between
Russia and Poland. Their activ-
tiles took in the United States
England, France, Germany, Bull
garia, China and other countries
The terrible explosion in the IA
nous. cathedral of Sofia, Bulgaria
killing more than a hundred Easter
worshipers. was part of one OF theil
enterprises, according to the spy'S
own confession.
He claimed he forged document
out of whole cloth, from data giver
him by one Popov. said to be
Bulgarian diplomat at that time liv'
ing in Berlin. purporting to show
that communist revolution wa
to break out on a given date II
Sofia, the signal being the blowing
up of the great cathedral,
Causes Several Deaths
Not only did the explosion TAKE
place, but several men were arrested
and put to death on the assumption
that they had been among the revo-
lutionary plotters. The forged docu'
ment, the spy confessed, was viz
tually the only evidence agains
them.
The now famous "zinoyiev let
ter" which purported to show tha
British labor leaders were receiving
funds from Soviet Russia, ant
which caused the defeat of the la.
Dor government of Premier Ram.
say Macdonald and the conSetva'
tive landslide which put Stanley
Baldwin back in power, was one o.
the rings forgeries, according tc
Druzhilovsky.
According to Soviet authorities
Druzhilovsky was a lieutenant, In
the Russian white" army. Out Of
a job and an exile in Berlin, hi
claimed he became aware that com
munism had become a bugaboo thai
was soaring the whole world, so ht
hit upon a scheme to sell "docu.
ments' showing how Russia was
plotting to plant the red flag or
top of government houses every
where.
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