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To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Comrade Zinoviev

Top secret

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Comrade Zinoviev:

Please raise at the Executive Committee of the Comintern
(I am not sure whether it should be raised at an enlarged
sitting or at a sitting of the narrow bureau) the question
of sending a special correspondent or several correspondents
from the Comintern to South Africa to collect the most detailed information and the fullest set of local literature,
both legal and illegal, relating to the recently suppressed
workers’ uprising. This should be done as soon as possible,
and not otherwise than with the maximum precautions because the British are sure [to do
everything] [1] to prevent the slightest possibility of any contact between us and the
insurgents who have not yet been shot or jailed. [2]

We, for our part, should at all costs establish the rule
that Comintern agents should manage to put in a secret appearance at all places of such uprisings to make timely
collection of the fullest material on the history of the
uprising

Please reply in a couple of words.

Lenin