Grigory Zinoviev
The Comintern and the Soviet government vehemently and consistently denied the authenticity of the document. Grigory Zinoviev issued a denial on 27 October 1924 (two days before the election), which was finally published in the December 1924 issue of "The Communist Review", the monthly theoretical magazine of the CPGB, well after the MacDonald government had fallen. Zinoviev declared: