that he represented a group of disillusioned officials in Russia that included key members of the secret police, the army, and the Interior Ministry. Yakushev said that they all had come to the same conclusion: the Communist experiment in Russia had totally failed and needed to be replaced. To effect this r

y the CIA, was known as the “Trust” deception. It began in August 1921 when a high-ranking official of the Communist regime in Russia named Aleksandr Yakushev, slipped away from a Soviet trade delegation in Estonia and sought out a leading anti- Communist exile he had known before the revolution in Russia.