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

Revelations in the Press
The Bolsheviks of the lower ranks were very eager to seize power as soon
as possible. Trotsky and Lenin believed that the astrological time was not
right yet! Some Bolshevik leaders, however, began acting on the 3rd
(16th) of July. Trotsky agitated to restrain the Red Guards. He gave a
speech before the Tauridian Palace where he said outright: "Go home!
Calm down!"
The situation exploded anyway on the 4th (17th) of July. Attempts at a
coup d'etat were underway. At the same time, the Germans launched a
new offensive at the front. Prince Lvov and his government were nearly
ready to leave their posts. It was really too early. The freemasons made a
desperate attempt to halt this development. They had sensitive material
delivered to the Russian authorities. On the 4th (17th) of July, the French
attache Pierre Laurent had visited Colonel Boris Nikitin, then chief of the
Russian Secret Service. (H. Bjorkegren, "Ryska posten", Stockholm, 1985,
p. 262.) He gave Nikitin copies of 29 telegrams from Lenin, Ganetsky,
Kollontay, Sumenson, Kozlovsky and Zinoviev and three letters to Lenin.
All that material was very revealing.
The information was immediately leaked to the newspapers by patriotic
forces. Rumours that the press in Petrograd was going to publish
revelatory articles on Lenin, Zinoviev and Trotsky began circulating on
the same afternoon.
Zinoviev later claimed that Lenin had discussed the question of the
take-over in the Tauridian Palace on the 3rd (16th) of July. This was
incorrect, since Lenin was in Bonch-Bruyevich's villa in Finland then, and
returned only on the 4th (17th) of July. (Mikhail Heller and Alexander
Nekrich, "Utopia in Power", London, 1986, p. 30.)
The Bolshevik leaders were worried and began working more actively.
No one had time for coup plans any longer. Stalin persuaded Nikolai
Chekheidze to telephone the editorial staffs of the newspapers and prohibit
the publication of those sensitive documents. Stalin understood as well as
the other Bolshevik leaders that the disclosure of that information would
damage the Bolsheviks also in the long term.
Even the Provisional Government wanted to sweep the whole business
under the carpet at this point. They did not want to take any measures
whatever.
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