Alan Judd

Fraud and forgery

No one has ever seen it. All we have are copies of copies of a possible forgery. But it created havoc in 1924 and still perplexes us today

  • The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies

    Gill Bennett

    OUP, pp. 355

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