04-06-2013, 04:08 AM
Continuing the same quote from A Certain Arrogance:
"During the war, newspapers, mail, and the all-important diplomatic pouches with sensitive letters, intelligence reports and coded messages had to go from Vienna to Berlin, then through a neutral Baltic port, before finally being sent to Bern and cabled to the United States. Adding to these delays, Germany held up communications in and out of Vienna for as long as a month.
Therefore, early in 1917, Allen Dulles constructed "a new transmittal route for the embassy's communications." Dulles assumed the role of hands-on communications officer, sometimes carrying "as many as two dozen of the bulky leather pouches."
Each week in 1917, Allen Dulles was absent from Vienna for at least two days, traveling to Zurich, to Bern, and then back to Vienna: Zurich, where Russian revolutionary exile Lenin lived; and Bern, where the German Legation made final plans for Lenin's sealed train trip to Petrograd.
Peter Grose's discoveries in both U.S. and Soviet sources have been extremely relevant, particularly Lenin's location in March and April 1917: "Lenin spent his years of exile in Zurich, not Bern, but the Leninist archives in Moscow showed that… Lenin and his common-law wife… went to [Bern]… that weekend to complete a still-unrevealed matter of intrigue." Grose clearly indicates it was Easter weekend, but does not reveal what he may have discovered concerning the matter. He does add that on this "crucial" Easter Sunday, Lenin had nothing scheduled.
Might Lenin, Grose speculated, have decided "to compare notes with a representative of the United States government," to establish "common cause" against Germany?
Grose's speculation, however interesting, lacks merit: Lenin clearly intended to close down the Eastern Front, which would free up many thousands of German troops to fight in France. This is why a far more important "matter of intrigue" was probably the issue in Bern."
Evica, George Michael; Charles Robert Drago (2011-02-01). A Certain Arrogance: The Sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Wartime Manipulation of Religious Groups by U.S. Intelligence (Kindle Locations 2124-2147). Independent Publishers Group. Kindle Edition.
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This begs the question, why would an American intelligence asset possibly want to be as active in moving a radical revolutionary into Russia knowing radical's the intent was to overthrow the government and then to remove Russia from the war?
Wouldn't it be in the best interest of the American government to keep the Czar in power and in the war? What was going on in Bern?
AWDulles building his empire even in World War 1 and still there is more to this trend.
"During the war, newspapers, mail, and the all-important diplomatic pouches with sensitive letters, intelligence reports and coded messages had to go from Vienna to Berlin, then through a neutral Baltic port, before finally being sent to Bern and cabled to the United States. Adding to these delays, Germany held up communications in and out of Vienna for as long as a month.
Therefore, early in 1917, Allen Dulles constructed "a new transmittal route for the embassy's communications." Dulles assumed the role of hands-on communications officer, sometimes carrying "as many as two dozen of the bulky leather pouches."
Each week in 1917, Allen Dulles was absent from Vienna for at least two days, traveling to Zurich, to Bern, and then back to Vienna: Zurich, where Russian revolutionary exile Lenin lived; and Bern, where the German Legation made final plans for Lenin's sealed train trip to Petrograd.
Peter Grose's discoveries in both U.S. and Soviet sources have been extremely relevant, particularly Lenin's location in March and April 1917: "Lenin spent his years of exile in Zurich, not Bern, but the Leninist archives in Moscow showed that… Lenin and his common-law wife… went to [Bern]… that weekend to complete a still-unrevealed matter of intrigue." Grose clearly indicates it was Easter weekend, but does not reveal what he may have discovered concerning the matter. He does add that on this "crucial" Easter Sunday, Lenin had nothing scheduled.
Might Lenin, Grose speculated, have decided "to compare notes with a representative of the United States government," to establish "common cause" against Germany?
Grose's speculation, however interesting, lacks merit: Lenin clearly intended to close down the Eastern Front, which would free up many thousands of German troops to fight in France. This is why a far more important "matter of intrigue" was probably the issue in Bern."
Evica, George Michael; Charles Robert Drago (2011-02-01). A Certain Arrogance: The Sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Wartime Manipulation of Religious Groups by U.S. Intelligence (Kindle Locations 2124-2147). Independent Publishers Group. Kindle Edition.
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This begs the question, why would an American intelligence asset possibly want to be as active in moving a radical revolutionary into Russia knowing radical's the intent was to overthrow the government and then to remove Russia from the war?
Wouldn't it be in the best interest of the American government to keep the Czar in power and in the war? What was going on in Bern?
AWDulles building his empire even in World War 1 and still there is more to this trend.
Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON