M. Zinoviev, the letter's alleged author

Front cover of the Illustrated London News, 1st November 1924, featuring M. Zinovieff [Zinoviev], President of the Third (Communist) International in Moscow, stated by the foreign office to be the author of a letter to the British Communist Party instructing British subjects "to work for the violent overthrow of existing institutions in this country". Also featured are John Duncan Gregory of the foreign office, signatory of the note of protest, and Christian Rakovsky, instructed to denounce the Zinoviev letter as "an impudent forgery"

Bolshevism Bolshevist Influence Interference Scandal Subversion Zinoviev

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