The Protocols of Zion?

[Ed Jewett]

I thought I had posted -- it must have been in another thread, or on another web site -- the curious text drawn from "Gentleman Spy" which discussed "The Protocols", how they came to be present in and around the end of the First World War, how they came to the attention of an individual in his very first Foreign Service posting in support of the American presence at Versailles, how this diplomat -- brother of another diplomat, and otherwise well-conencted -- came to encounter the document again when, after a vacation and his wedding, he was re-assigned to Istanbul, he became convinced that "The Protocols" were a hoax, and how he got that story posted in both the prominent British publication of the day, as well as The New York Times (in between handling visas and other functions). The "gentleman spy" was Allen Dulles. It appears from here to be his first major task in myth-making and the use of mockingbirds in the press.