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Document ForgeryThis false passport and disguise enabled Lenin to escape into Finland after an order for his arrest was issued by the Russian Provisional Government in July1917. ©HULTON-DEUTSCH COLLECTION/CORBIS.”Dialoque aux Enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavel,“by Maurice Joly, which was first published in 1864 as anattack on Napoleon III’s ambitions for world domination.In the ”Protocols,“ “the Jewish,” or “the Jews,” weresubstituted where the French emperor was mentioned inthe text.The Okhrana, was responsible for the ”Protocols,“ aforgery that cost untold number of lives since it was firstintroduced. The Nazis used this forgery as a justificationfor genocide against Jewish persons, and even today anti-Semitic groups continue to reprint it.Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and SecurityGerman-Bolshevik conspiracy. Drawing on the experience oftheir Czarist predecessors, the Soviet KGB (known earlieras the Cheka, OGPU and GPU) continued to use forgeries.Six months after seizing power, the Bolsheviks were concernedabout continuing accusations labeling Lenin andhis comrades as German agents. There was some logic tothis accusation, as the Germans had helped send Leninback into Russia to undermine their wartime enemy. TheBolsheviks denied that they were in the pay of the Germans.On September 15, 1918, the United States governmentreleased to the press a collection of documents that345