The French and American sailors and marines on shore leave had liberty toefrequent the public bars to which Borodin's "types" also had access, and by buying drinks and cigarettes and sometimes making! small loans, these agents were! often able to get a hearing for their insidious doctrines. Among _tho French marines were quite a few German-speaking men from Alsace-_ Lorraine and these were carefully Sought out, first filled with anti. French and then with Commu doctrine, The agents who speci ized in this work frequently reported progress, but some of their supposed converts must have been absorbing both their drinks and their lectures with a definite purpose, because the French Consul soon had full details of this work and the bars were put out of bounds for the French as well as the British.
That some were susceptible I happen to know, and there was one conspicuous instance that I remember. The Jewish proprietor of the New York Bar, a certain Abraham, was a citizen of the Soviet and worked for Borodin. He sent Borodin one day a French sailor who was a complete convert, having already been a member of the Communist Party in France and, for propaganda purposes, this fellow
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