FULL CONFESSION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 5

FULL CONFESSION

ANTI-SOVIET PLOTTERS “TROTSKY INSTRUCTION” EX-LEADER’S DENIAL “AN ACT OF REVENGE” (Eloc. Tol. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 21, noon.) MOSCOW, Aug. 20. Kamenev, recalled at the treason trial, declared that lie was in full sympathy with M. Leon Trotsky, who was alleged to have plotted the assassination of AT. Josef Stalin. He saiu that he was motivated by a personal hatred for M. Stalin and a lust for power. Kamenev added that the former London Ambassador, M. Sokonikov, though a terrorist, was, deliberately excluded from the plot against M. Stalin so that he could facilitate M. Trotsky’s return to power. “Trotsky’s role in the terror plot was greater than mine, which was great enough,” said Zinoviev. “The physical destruction of M. Stalin was Trotsky’s instruction to all agents. Admitting my guilt, I am determined to tell the truth. I ordered Bogden to kill M. Stalin. I went all the way through the counter-revolution to terrorism because Trotskyism, plus terrorism, is fascism.”

A message from Oslo states that M. Trotsky issued a statement declaring that he will he able to prove to the world that the case is only an act of revenge which places the Dreyfus affair and the Reichstag fire trial in the shade.

“Give me a brief respite, and the prosecutors themselves will be prosecuted,” he said.