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

The fact that Kannegisser admitted to the crime is irrelevant, since the
Chekist torturers could make anyone admit to anything. In this case, the
opportunity was taken to accuse the right wing of the Social Revo-
lutionaries of the murder.
It has now been confirmed that the central organisation of the Cheka,
headed by the freemason Gleb Boky, was behind Uritsky's murder. (Igor
Bunich, "The Party's Gold", St. Petersburg, 1992, p. 47.)
So the motive was to exact revenge on Uritsky for his thefts. The main
purpose was to be given a reason to begin the mass terror. The murder of
Kirov had the same motive. But was there not also another reason to
dispose of Uritsky now that he had solved the mystery of another murder?
V. Volodarsky (Moisei Goldstein) had been murdered under puzzling
circumstances on June 20, 1918. He was the people's commissary for
press, propaganda and agitation. His murderer was at once stamped as a
right wing Social Revolutionary, despite the fact that he was never caught.
The Bolshevik leadership in Moscow wanted to begin the massacre
immediately. Moisei Uritsky, who investigated the murder of Volodarsky,
refused to agree to this. He suspected the hand of the central leadership
behind this murder. That was why it was impossible to use this murder as
a pretext. Lenin was beside himself with rage. This is clear from Lenin's
angry telegrams, sent on the 26th of June 1918 to Grigori Zinoviev, the
chairman of the Petrograd Party Committee. Lenin wrote, among other
things: "We in the Central Committee heard today that Piter's workers want
to respond to Volodarsky's murder with terror but you (not you personally,
but Piter's civil servants) held back. I protest strongly!"
The only one who could ignore the demands to begin the terror was
Petrograd's 45-year-old chief Chekist, Moisei Uritsky. According to
Alexander Kravtsov, this telegram clearly shows that the murder of Volo-
darsky was planned and organised by the Cheka under orders from Lenin.
The historian Igor Bunich confirmed this.
Volodarsky and Uritsky belonged to the 275 Menshevik conspirators
who, together with Trotsky, had boarded the Kristianiafjord in New York
harbour on March 27, 1917 to travel to Petrograd, where they all joined
with the Bolshevik leader, Lenin. Volodarsky had lived in the United
States since 1913.
Several strange circumstances put Uritsky on the track of Volodarsky's
murderers. The car in which Volodarsky had been travelling had suddenly
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