Eight Jews who have played a leading role in the Soviet enterprise are among the many hundreds of persons involved in the sensational trial of eight engineers and professors charged with being the ringleaders in an international plot for intervention in Soviet Russia. The Communist press prints a long list of the names of those who are implicated in this plot.
The eight Jews who are mentioned in the accusation act are L. Rabinovitch, M. Kaufman, S. Kravetz, M. Sokolovsky, M. Gurevitch, M. Belozerovsky and M. Pinkus. Rabinovitch, a former coal magnate, is now in jail under a six year prison sentence for his part in the famous Don Basin trial. Rabinovitch is said to be the man whom the international plotters had selected to be minister of finance if the plans of the eight engineers and professors now on trial for their lives had materialized.
Kaufman is accused of sabotage in the metal industry. Kravetz, a chemical engineer and Sokolosky, Gurevitch and Belozerkovsky were prominent figures in the Supreme Economic Council. Pinkus, who has been a member of the Communist Party since the Revolution, executed many important secret commissions for the government in Germany and Poland. In the latter country he was arrested as a spy but managed to escape and returned to Moscow where he became a professor at the Red Academy.
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