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ISBN-13 :  9780191080104

Author: Gill Bennett 

This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance almost a century later: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. Almost certainly a forgery, no original has ever been traced, and even if genuine it was probably Soviet ‘fake news’. Despite this, the Letter still haunts British politics nearly a century after it was written; it was the subject of major Whitehall investigations in the 1960s and 1990s, and cropped up in the media as recently as during the Referendum campaign and the 2017 general election. The Letter, encouraging the British proletariat to greater revolutionary fervour, was apparently sent by Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Bolshevik propaganda organization, to the British Communist Party in September 1924. Sent to London through British Secret Intelligence Service channels, it arrived during the general election campaign and was leaked to the press. The Letter’s publication by the Daily Mail on 25 October 1924 just before the General Election humiliated the first ever British Labour government, headed by Ramsay MacDonald, when its political opponents used it to create a ‘Red Scare’ in the media. Labour blamed the Letter for its defeat, insisting there had been a right-wing Establishment conspiracy, and many in the Labour Party have never forgotten it. The Zinoviev Letter has long been a symbol of political dirty tricks and what we would now call ‘fake news’. But it is also a gripping historical detective story of spies and secrets, fraud and forgery, international subversion and the nascent global conflict between communism and capitalism.

The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies 1st Table of contents:

1. One Version of the Truth
Wednesday, 8 July 1998: Moscow
1924: the first British Labour government
1924: a significant year in Soviet politics
The conspiratorial context
2. In Search of the Red Letter
Dispatch, arrival, and distribution
Leaks, rumours, and dirty tricks
What happened on ‘Zinoviev Friday’?
Publication and protest: London and Moscow
‘Come into the plot’
3. Enquiries and Investigations, 1924–1925
Cabinets, communists, and trade unions
Soviets and spooks
1925: ‘The Bolshevik Plotters in our Midst’
The Secret Service Committee, 1925
4. The Plot Thickens, 1928–1929
‘We are at a new kind of war with Russia’: Anglo-Soviet relations, 1926–1927
The Francs Scandal, 1928
Red Letter Day: revelations in Parliament
Arrests in Berlin
Besedovsky jumps the wall
5. The Philby Effect, 1960–1970
Three elections and two curious Foreign Secretaries: 1930–1960
‘Quite a pocketful of trouble’: spies and suspicion, 1960–1964
The hole in the archive: 1965–1967
Insights from The Sunday Times
The Bagot Enquiry and Report, 1967–1970
6. New Labour, New Investigation, 1998–1999
In Search of the Missing Dimension, 1975–1987
Storks and gooseberry bushes, 1985–1996
A most extraordinary and mysterious business: looking for the Zinoviev Letter, 1998–1999
7. So Who Wrote the Zinoviev Letter, and Does it Matter?
Reds
Whites
Blues
Conclusion: Good Conspiracy Theories Never Die

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