Moscow, Mar. 3.
Employing a courtroom technique alternately sarcastic and brusque, the Soviet Prosecutor, M. Andrew Vyshinsky, to-day drew from M. Nicolai Bukharin, former President of the Internationale and editor of Izvestia, testimony that a vast international plot exists to kill M. Josef Stalin and other high Soviet leaders and split up the Soviet Union, M. Bukharin, testified that as early as 1918 it was planned to arrest M. Nicolai Lenin and M. Josef Stalin.
He said the plan involved a forcible overthrow of the Government, and the creation of a crisis by plunging the country into war, all with the object of securing the Soviets' defeat "This meant dismemberment of the U.S.S.R., the ceding of the Ukraine and the Maritime Provinces of White Russia.... to Germany, Japan, and partially to England," he said.
He further pleaded guilty to all crimes allegedly committed by the rightist "Trotskyist bloc, sying, "I'm the leader, not the switch-operator of that organization."
M. H. G. Yagoda, former head of the Political Police and another of Part of Phoenix Group Was Claimed by Britain
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