The controversy surrounding the publication of the Zinoviev letter
in The Daily Mail in October 1924 has close parallels with events
today: Was it leaked by British officials or fake news to influence
the outcome of the forthcoming election? On the basis of compelling
evidence this book overturns the generally accepted view about the
authenticity of the Zinoviev letter, proving it was genuine. The
minority Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald had called an
election for November. In the last days of the election campaign
the press broke the news of a letter purporting to have been sent
from Moscow by Grigory Zinoviev, Chairman of the Soviet-controlled
Communist International, to the Communist Party of Great Britain.
The letter urged members of the Party to increase their efforts to
gain power by manipulating the Labour Party, which was hostile to
Communist aims, so as to move the Labour Party to a revolutionary
position, and by recruiting disenchanted military personnel to form
the basis of a British `Red Army'. The Zinoviev letter had reached
the Foreign Office via the Secret Service. It caused a storm, with
accusations that it was a fabrication by White Russians or by
British elements hostile to Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Government,
and possibly lost Labour the election. It has never been
established whether it was leaked to the Daily Mail by British
officials or by someone from the British Communist Party. The
author reveals that Zinoviev's letter, sent to British Communists
by the Comintern, was not a fabrication, as has been widely
believed for almost a hundred years. The evidence to show that this
is so has been publicly available since 1930. The book ends with
the question, was it overlooked or deliberately concealed by those
with an allegiance to the Soviet Union? That is the new and real
mystery of the Zinoviev letter.
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