RUSSIA: Counterfeiting Explained

Many a prisoner hurls accusations from the dock, desperately tries to save himself by accusing others. Sometimes the accusations are truth. In Berlin last week one Basilius Sadathieraschvili, a citizen of the Soviet Republic of Georgia, sought to win the Court's mercy by pleading that he was only a small cog in a very big counterfeiting machine powered by the Soviet Government.

Comrade Sadathieraschvili claimed to know all about the notorious European counterfeit issue of more than $100,000 worth of U. S. $100 Federal Reserve notes, dated 1914 and picturing Benjamin Franklin...

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