This man, who then called himself Brown and now calls
himself Borodin, is really Michael Grusenberg, and is possibly, the Times says, of Lettish origin. In 1919 he was sent to Spain by the Communist Inter- national to conduct propaganda. In 1920 he was heard of in Mexico, and afterwards, with the help of a Mexican passport, he entered the United States, where he became known as a Communist agitator. When he came to Great Britain in 1922, no doubt on a false passport, his orders were to act as adviser to the British Com- munist Party, to prepare a financial plan for Communist propaganda here, and to supervise the British Communist campaign according to instructions from Moscow. His principal achievement was to enable certain delegates at the Blackpool Conference to institute a minority movement in the Miners' Federation.
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