File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎384r] (415/1080)

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their attention to the Begs and influential Mullas, inviting them to partici
pate in the higher civic duties, explaining to them that to them would even
tually fall the government of an independent Turkestan, to which end their
sponsors the Bolsheviks wmdd assist them temporarily, to confirm them
later in self-government.
As an apparent guarantee of good faith the Soviet Government ejected
from Ferghana the whole of the Russian population for their presence there
.was an example of alien colonization towards which they profess themselves
to be antagonistic.
As soon as Bolshevik policy had been made to permeate the life of
Transcaspia and Turkestan, the attention of the Bolsheviks was concen
trated on the small State of Bokhara and also on Afghanistan.
At first they began to play with the Bokharan Amir, giving him pre
sents, such as weapons, guns, machine guns, and so on. At the same time
they sent into the State a number of agitators the result of whose activities
was the creation of the Young Bokharan party to which, after the destruc
tion of Bokhara was effected by the Bolsheviks, the government of the
State was transferred, albeit fictitiously.
It must be noted that the root cause of the destruction of Bokhara was
the necessity to widen the road to India across Afghanistan. Moreover
the Bolsheviks were tempted by the riches of the Khanate.
A similar policy is operating with regard of Afghanistan., Agitators
and propagandists are sent there from an institution specially created for
this object and known as the Komissariat of International Propaganda.
These emissaries penetrate the frontier of Afghanistan in the guise of
traders and contrabandists. Nevertheless, it must be noted that although
the Bolshevik Government spends n greett deni of money on propngnndn in
Afghanistan they have met with absolutely no success because of the intense
religious fanaticism of the people.
Yet are they not discouraged for they are doing the same as they did in
Bokhara, that is, they are trying to buy the Afghan Government by means of
gitts. Thus, for example, they have presented the Amir with a silver vase
weighing 22 pounds and which they filled with pearls and diamonds. The
radio station at Kabul was also a gift. Raskolnikov’s mission took with it
four aeroplanes XU* In addition they are discussing with the Afghans the
question of the construction of a railway from Kushk to Herat and the
cession of Kushk to Afghanistan. The a priori reason of these gifts is the
weakening of English influence and the strengthening of that of the Bol-
sheviks. Moreover, twelve young Afghans have been invited to Moscow
for initiation into radio telegraphy and instruction in aviation.
While continuing thus to strengthen their influence in Afghanistan
the Bolsheviks hope that at the psychological moment the Government of that
country will allow the Red Army within her borders'for a march on India
with the battle cry of “ Bolshevik help for the Indian Revolution.”
In connection with this it should be noted that all communication wi
the Indian revolutionaries passes principally through Afghanistan A
printed information and instructions for Indian leaders pass through t
Bolshevik Mission at Kabul. Nevertheless, the latter complain of t
inconvenience of this liaison both with regard to correspondence and t
transfer of funds They regard this avenue as dangerous as too few peor
traverse the frontier from India to Afghanistan and back. F b
According to information received on the 15th May last from t]
Bolshevik representative at Kabul it appears that a fully appointed orgar
zation for Bolshevik propaganda is at work in India. This organizatk
conceals itself m a great trading concern under the direction of the lead
of one of the three great political parties existing in India This lead
belongs to that party whose object is the termination of English dominie
by armed force. His policy is to weld all parties into one especial]v
the party carrying on a boycott of the English; (b) the party which see