Wasn't the Mexico thing an invention from the Brits to get the US in the war? Or did they just intercept the message and (conveniently) informed the White House?
No, it was the real deal Bougnas(& if it
sounds like lunacy undiluted, it was. That’s
why a # of posters up above are mentioning
it). The British had indeed intercepted the
message & turned it over to the Americans
(but via the American ambassador to Great
Britain Walter Page; later First Lord of the Admirality Arthur Balfour would call the
moment he handed Page the telegram “the
most dramatic in all my life.”*) The tele-
gram whose authenticity is still being de-
bated today is the Zinoviev telegram of
1924. This was supposed to be a cable from
Gregori Zinoviev, head of the Communist
International, to the British Communist Party
directing it to do all it could to forment rev-
olution in Great Britain. It has been charged
that this document was a forgery, made up by British intelligence, in order to frighten British voters into voting against the Labour party in that year’s general election(& when the letter was made public, the electorate did indeed turn against Labour, handing the
Conservative party a decisive victory).
*- Quoted in Christopher Andrew, HER MAJ-
ESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, p. 111 of the 1987, Penguin paperback edition. An encyc-
lopedic history of the British intelligence
agencies MI5 & MI6(the British equivalents
of our FBI & CIA)from their beginnings up
through WWII.