Andrew Bridgen MP shared a document supposedly showing a list of “Communist Rules For Revolution” written in 1919. This list has been circulating for more than half a century, but it’s widely been labelled as a hoax.
in 1970 described the list as “one of the more durable frauds popular among far right and anti‐Communist organisations”, and found that, despite it having been re-printed in several regional newspapers over the years, “The National Archives, the Library of Congress and the libraries of the nation's universities have no copy or trace of the [original] “document.””
According to the article, the FBI and CIA had both also been unable to authenticate the document, while then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover reportedly said of it: “We can logically speculate that the document is spurious.
These articles were challenged in 1973 by Ashley Halsey Jr., then-editor of the National Rifle Association magazine American Rifleman, who claimedthat the document was obtained and translated by a US Army captain, who passed it to New World News—the magazine of the “Moral Re-armament” religious movement—where it was published in 1946.
While we can’t verify the claims made in this article, it stands at odds with the findings of several other reputable sources mentioned in this fact check.
If an MP makes a false or misleading claim on social media, they should correct this quickly in a clear and transparent manner, including on the same platform where the claim was made. We’ve contacted Mr Bridgen about his tweet and will update this article if he responds.
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