[rahbert]

actually it was Lenin that planned the trip, germans approved only after some deliberation.

[mkjessup]

Actually it was Lenin that planned the trip, germans approved only after some deliberation.

German General Von Ludendorff (? spelling) reportedly provided an entire freight car full of gold to assist Lenin in financing the revolution after arriving in St.Petersberg. Lenin and the boxcar left Bern via sleeper car.

Ironically, it was our own Allen Dulles (first director of the CIA, 1953 to 1961), who was working for the State Department in Switzerland who reviewed and then rejected Lenin's application for a visa to the United States, and refused to meet with Lenin at 4:00 pm on a Friday afternoon because he (Dulles) had a prior tennis appointment, thus Lenin headed off to Russia and as Paul Harvey might say "Now you know the rest of the story."