Intelligence or Espionage? Memoirs of an Austro-Hungarian Officer 1904-1918

“One day he came in with the information that many Russian Marxists living in Switzerland believed that a certain Ulyanov, whom they called Lenin for short, was capable of starting a revolution in Russia. This would lead to the end of hostilities on the Russian front. Lenin and Zinoviev (originally called Apfelbaum) had coined the phrase ‘to turn the imperialist war into a civil war’. They had remained in contact with the Bolshevik cells that had remained in Russia. It would cost some money, but if they could obtain free passage to Russia they would take care of the rest.”