From Glasgow to the Gulag

The Herald, "Scotland's Leading Quality Daily Newspaper" reveals (briefly) further details of the story of the mysterious "Comrade X" (aka, Mikhail Borodin, Jacob Gruzenberg, George Braun, and George Brown) via a summary of previously secret files.

"Comrade X"

In 1922, Comrade X "slipped into Britain to sow the seeds of the Russian Revolution," evidenced quite directly in the police report that notes that he had been arrested at the Communist Party HQ in Glasgow "on the point of delivering a speech to a secret meeting of Communists."

Upon his arrest, "X" spent six months "languishing" in prison in Glasgow for six months as an illegal alien.

The newly birthed Soviet Union (U.S.S.R), publicly denied his existence and so it has more or less remained until very recently.

After ending up as a Soviet spy in China, arranging arms shipments while working directly as a "prominent advisor to Dr. Sun Yat Sen,"  he fairly quickly fell afoul of the Chinese regime and returned to Moscow, where he briefly edited the English language Moscow News.

Ironically, in 1951, two years after being charged with being an enemy of the Soviet state, Comrade X died in a Siberian gulag.

Surely more details of this life are yet to come.