-Caveat Lector-
It seems to me perfectly fitting that intelligence agencies in France and England
would have had their hands all over this one. It remains to be seen just how involved
other governments were with the revolution in Russia, and what kind of help was given
or witheld at times.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,516859,00.html
MI5 detained Trotsky on way to revolution
Public records: Russian was arrested on British orders in 1917 on a boat in
Canada but released after intervention by MI6
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday July 5, 2001
The Guardian
Leon Trot