BEAUTIFUL “RED” SPY

Evening Star, Issue 20049, 14 December 1928, Page 11

BEAUTIFUL “RED” SPY

LYK€HED BY RUSSIAN GOHI SPIRATOSS SOVIET'S RUTHLESS REVENGE I Moscow admits, in the latest Govcinment newspapers to reach England that it has just survived another determined effort to break Bolshevist ride. I The revolt w T as in the Kuban and i Don Provinces, and was organised by I the Sons of Russia movement. | The beautiful Bolshevist spy, Zm--1 aida Krylova, was sent by the ogpu (secret political police) to spy on the movement. But she was immediately recognised, despite forged letters of introduction and her vast knowledge ol secret signs and countersigns, ! The ‘lzvestya’ says: “The organisation decided to remove the dangerous Zinaida Krylova because she knew of the conspiracy. After she had been brutally murdered her body was thrown into the river. It is true that the spy was lynched, but the ogpu has avenged her. "Two leaders of the lynchings were sentenced to death, but the sentences were later reduced to ten years’ penal ] servitude. Hundreds of people were arrested.” MURDER REPRISAL. Details of the wholesale murders committed by the ogpu since the death of Zinaida are still withheld. All that is admitted now- is that a batch of tivcnty-fcwo persons arc to be tried for life as “ counter-revolutionaries.” News of the attempts to overthrow the Soviet Government and the eventual discovery of the “conspiracy” was at first withhold from the public. But now . the ‘ Izvestya ’ (September 28) publishes the hare facts. The “ Sons of Russia ” organisation, led bv students of the Kuban Agricultural Institute (a Soviet college), aimed at the'entire destruction of the ogpu, the overthrow of the Soviet Government, and the legal reinstatement of all the political parties that existed in the old days. BOMBING RAIDS. That this organisation was not merely a leaflet-distributing society is also admitted in the official report. It says; “Dissatisfied with mere .leaflets, the organisation recently decided to work with dynamite and with bombs. Plans found show that as. a beginning the headquarters of the Soviet Party and the railway bridges in Kuban were to be blown up.” . Actually bombs were thrown at the Krasnodar' ogpu building, as w-ell as iin Moscow railw-ay bridges were deI stroyed in the Kuban Province, and • Moscow was actually nut off from the I Cossack province until a punitive expedition was despatched at the end of July. - All this was kept secret, _ and even the soldiers were not told either their destination or their aim.