Beasts in Cassocks: The Crimes of the Heads of the Russian Greek Catholic Orthodox Church in America/Chapter 16

by John Feoktist Dudikoff

CHAPTER XVI.

Russian Spies in America.

Before proceeding any further, it will be necessary to acquaint ourselves with the "Okhrankas'"—Secret Service, another phase of the unwholesome influence of Platon. These "Okhrankas" were connected with the Russian Consulate in New York and employed agents, priests, psalm-readers and hangers-on from the various offices which sold steamship tickets, exchanged currency, etc. The chief occupation of these, however, was to supply white slaves to the East 97th Street "establishment." They served the powers to be on East 97th Street, as well as the monks who came there from all over the country. Very often the victims of these dealers in "recreation" for the Holy Prelates disappeared mysteriously. Agents, disguised as American offifficials from various departments, would be sent to the numerous towns and cities of the United States, South America and Canada for roping in and exploiting Russian immigrants.

The Works of Holy Fathers.

The methods used by these agents were many and varied: naive and ignorant "countrymen" would be intimidated, or promised lucrative positions, or the advantage of being ordained as priests, etc.—all with the object of making them part with their bank books. These they were asked to hand over "for safekeeping" to the Holy Fathers and their minions. Whenever their savings were withdrawn from the bank, they were, as a rule, turned over to his Holy Eminence, the Righ Reverend Master and Archbishop of the Russian Greek-Orthodox Mission of North America, Canada and Alaska, Metropolitan Platon, who is at present in this country, in the City of New York, at 15 East 97th Street, and has proclaimed himself, without any authority, as the representative of the All-Russian Patriarch Tikhon, and as independent Russian spiritual ruler of North and South America and Canada. Those who were cheated out of their money were given packages with Metropolitan Platon's sealing wax stamp, which he either applied in person or had his secretary, Archpresbyter John Slunin apply.

Whenever the simple folk made an attempt to complain to the authorities, Platon's confederates, who had expected this course of

Their Friend, Gregory Rasputin.

action, would arrest them fer no cause whatever, knowing that these helpless people, ignorant of the laws of the land, would be intimidated. When, on the other hand, victims attempted to protest, a worse fate befell them—they were "lost" or their dead bodies were picked up somewhere, and the death recorded as "dead, cause unknown." As a rule, however, after having robbed the simpletons, they persuaded them to go back to Russia, telling them that well-paying positions awaited them there. They shipped them on the boats of the Scandinavian Line, mainly to Libau, where immediately upon arrival they were put to death or sent to the Peter Paul Fortress and subjected to most inhuman tortures.

I have in my possession a list of these "agents" and assistants of Platon, as well as the names of a considerable number of victims of this Church "Okhranka." These I will reveal, in due time, only to the United States Attorney General in Washington.

Besides all these crimes I can prove still another very important brutal and savage crime committed by Archbishop Platon Rozhdestvensky, leader of the Greek-Orthodox Mission in America, and his assistant, Bishop Alexander Nemolovsky, togeher with many other minions of theirs. This crime was the murder of a woman and took place at Canaan, Pa., at the Swiato-Tikhonovsk Monastery in August, 1913. The woman, whose name I will reveal to the United States Attorney General, was first violated, then killed; her heart was cut out and burned to ashes, which were then pounded into powder and taken with wine. After this atrocity wild orgies followed.

 

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