nov 15, 1918 - REPORT: David Rowland Francis Russia from the American Embassy, 1916-1918 (1921) page 214 "The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90 percent of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution."

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Only a few weeks after the Bolshevik revolution, the U.S. ambassador in Russia sent a dispatch to his government in Washington advising that most of the Bolshevik leaders were Jews, 90% of them returned from exile:

"The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90 percent of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution."
David Rowland Francis
Russia from the American Embassy, 1916-1918 (1921) page 214

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