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Show " "REDS" POSING AS RED GROSSAGENTS USE FRAUDULENT CREDENTIALS IN PASSING BETWEEN BERLIN AND RUSSIA. Couriers Trusted to False Passports to Cover Their Activities in Behalf of Soviet Leaders, But Are Finally Captured. London. Bolshevik agents entrusted entrust-ed witli messages regarding sensational sensation-al widespread red plans have been for considerable time traveling between Berlin and soviet Russia on false credentials, cre-dentials, it is stated in official quarters. quar-ters. The credentials they carried are said to have described them as delegates dele-gates of the American Red Cross mission mis-sion in Berlin to conduct Investigations Investiga-tions regarding the exchange of German Ger-man prisoners from Russia. These couriers, it appears, were carying dispatches between Moscow and Bolshevist organizations in oilier countries, Including the German Spnr-tacists Spnr-tacists and the Swiss Communists. Lithuanian authorities discovered the illicit traveling after Lithuania's borders bor-ders had been crossed many times, and a number of arrests followed. Not all the couriers were provided with American papers, but such forged credentials cre-dentials were "found on several of the prisoners. Two men who carried Red Cross passes admitted they had nothing to do with the American mission, but in reality, were working for the Communists. Commun-ists. One woman, similarly equipped, who worked from Dvin.sk, said she had been instructed to deliver documents to persons she did not know personally. |