"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

Now it was time for Lenin to return as well. When he first read in the
Neue Zurcher Zeitung that the Tsar had been deposed, he thought it was
German propaganda.
On the 31st of March the German vice-state secretary informed
Ambassador Gisbert von Romberg in Bern with a cipher-telegram: "The
Russian revolutionaries' journey through Germany should take place as
soon as possible, since the Allies have already begun counter-actions in
Switzerland. If possible, the negotiations should be speeded up!"
Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869-1928) sent a strictly secret
telegram from Copenhagen to the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin on
April 2, 1917: "We must immediately try to bring about as wide-spread
chaos as possible in Russia. At the same time, we must avoid visibly
involving ourselves in the course of the Russian revolution. But in secret
we should do everything to increase the antagonism between the moderate
and extreme parties, since we are quite interested in the victory of the latter
because the coup d'etat would then be unavoidable."
Brockdorff-Rantzau was foreign minister during the Weimar Republic
and ambassador in Moscow from 1922.
Lenin signalled to the German government on the 4th of April that he
was ready to return to Russia. His journey was approved by Chancellor
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, who belonged to the Bethmann
banking family in Frankfurt am Main, and by State Secretary Arthur
Zimmermann. Then these men proceeded to organise the journey together
with Count Brockdorff-Rantzau and Alexander Parvus.
They thought it best if Lenin travelled through Sweden, where he would
be joined by their contact man, Jakub Furstenberg-Hanecki (Ganetsky).
(Antony Sutton, "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution" (Morley,
1981, p. 40). Ganetsky was called "the hands and feet of the party".
On the 9th of April, Lenin and his group began their journey from Bern
to Russia. Before they had left Zurich, they heard cries of: "German spies!
Traitors!" from the platform.
The German General Staff could not imagine that the Bolsheviks would
ever turn against Germany and Europe. The German Major General Max
Hoffman later wrote: "We neither knew nor foresaw the danger to
humanity from the consequences of this journey of the Bolsheviks to
Russia." (Antony Sutton, "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution",
Morley, 1981, p. 40.)
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