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William Boyce Thompson

American mining financier; head of the American Red Cross mission to Russia in 1917.

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Dates
13 May 1869 – 27 Jun 1930
Also known as
William B. Thompson, W. B. Thompson
How each side tells it

According to Antony C. Sutton

  • funded Bolsheviks 1917 DisputedA US embassy cable of December 1917 relays a Bolshevik newspaper's account that American Red Cross money went to anti-Bolshevik publications.

According to United States government

William Boyce Thompson led the American Red Cross mission in Petrograd in 1917. According to Antony C. Sutton, he gave $1 million to the Bolsheviks. US embassy records from December 1917 instead connect American Red Cross money with propaganda for the Russian Provisional Government’s side. Both claims are shown with their sources.

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  • Bolsheviks 1917 $1M According to Antony C. Sutton Disputed Scholarship & press 1

    Disputed: A US embassy cable of December 1917 relays a Bolshevik newspaper's account that American Red Cross money went to anti-Bolshevik publications.

    Sutton bases this on Thompson's own statement as reported in 1918.

  • Russian Provisional Government 1917 via the American Red Cross mission According to United States government Being verified Primary record 2

    The US ambassador relays a Bolshevik newspaper's account that Red Cross money went to newspapers run by Breshko-Breshkovskaya and Kerensky's secretary, then notes Thompson's departure. Tying the money to Thompson personally is an inference, so this stays a draft.

Timeline 3 dates
  1. 13 May 1869 – 27 Jun 1930 William Boyce Thompson
  2. 1917 William Boyce Thompson funded Bolsheviks According to Antony C. Sutton Disputed
  3. 1917 William Boyce Thompson funded Russian Provisional Government According to United States government Being verified
Proof 2 sources
  1. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Arlington House, 1974. Scholarship & press
    that he (Thompson) contributed $1 million to the Bolshevik Revolution for propaganda purposes.
  2. The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State, December 8, 1917 (FRUS 1918, Russia, vol. I, doc. 288), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 8 Dec 1917. Primary record
    that Americans had promised two million dollars; that Sauskis brought “Robins and two other Americans,” who handed Breshkovskaya two packages of fifty thousand rubles paid by Americans
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