For Deputy Erzberger and Counsellor Nadolny.
Wucherpfenning1 reports :
Leitis traveling to Petrograd in next few days as courier for [Russian] legation here. He will also take prosecution material for Lenin�s trial. Bolshevik leader Radek still here. Report on his activities will be sent tomorrow. Goldberg�s presence urgently required. If his departure delayed by passport difficulties, please send Parvus�s pamphlets, as there is opportunity to dispatch them.
Meanwhile Meier Grossmann (Ruskie Viedomosti) has returned from Petrograd. He spoke with Savinko [Savinkov ?] (Kerensky�s �Commissar for the Front�) and with the Minister. Report will be sent after Goldberg�s return.
Please inform Goldberg of the above.
LEGATION
1. One of Erzberger�s agents in Scandinavia. There is no mention of him in Erzberger�s war memoirs, Erlebniss im Weltkrieg, Stuttgart and Berlin, 1920.
( Zeman, no. 70, page 69 )
[ 6 May 1918 ]
Eastern Command has sent the following telegram to High Command of the Army : [Etc]
Captain von Milinsky of the War Ministry, who is at the moment in Petrograd, instructed a courier who returned from Petrograd on 1 May (Lt. Brussatis) to tell the German Army Command the following :
�The Maximalist government was to be overthrown by the Minimalists, on the instigation and with the financial support of the French, the English, and the Americans. The appointed date, 1 May, had to be postponed because the organization was incomplete. The dictators of the Minimalist government were to be Chernov, General Schwarz, Kriwotshein, and Gavenko [Savinkov ?] and also, supposedly, Kerenski in Petrograd. After the victory of the counter-revolution, an army of 38,000 to 50,000 men was to attack the German troops in Finland or Estonia, in order to ease the burden on the French front. The Maximalists were warned of the imminent counter-revolution by Monarchists and the Soviet government arranged for the arrest of the Minimalist dictators. A French firm is evacuating large quantities of metal, crude rubber, and motor tyres from Petrograd. German delegates were not able to seize this opportunity, s they had no authority to buy. Large and favourable offers were made to them.�
�To make Lt. B[russatis]�s journey possible, a Russian officer, George, a delegate of Major-General Shulgin, accompanied him. Georg is at the disposal of the German government until 8 May for any commissions that may be required.�
BERCKHEIM