Giles Prendergast

Virtual politics p. 4: Although its publishing history remains sketchy, the Okhrana almost certainly played the key role in the ongoing reworking of the various editions of the era’s most notorious forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903 and after). Piotr Rachkovskii, the head of the Foreign Agentura and a compulsive forger [...] most probably organised the plundering of previous works by Maurice Joly, Elie de Cyon and Hermann Goedsche to cobble together the Protocols. The most likely author was another agent, Sergei Nilus.