The existence of 'Circular 18' has not been documented. This congress was open to the public and was attended by a number of Christian clergy, political figures and reporters. He asserts that the Protocols were presented at the first Zionist Congress at Basel, Switzerland in 1897 in 'Circular 18', contradicting his original claims to their history. Nilus further contradicts himself as to his sources in his 1917 edition.

The person who gave me this manuscript guaranteed it to be a faithful translation of the original documents that were stolen by a woman from one of the highest and most influential leaders of the Freemasons at a secret meeting somewhere in Francethe beloved nest of Freemasonic conspiracy. In 1901, I succeeded through an acquaintance of mine (the late Court Marshal Alexei Nocolayevitch Sukotin of Tchernigov) in getting a manuscript that exposed with unusual perfection and clarity the course and development of the secret Jewish Freemasonic conspiracy, which would bring this wicked world to its inevitable end. In the introduction to the 1911 edition of his book, Nilus says: He later claimed to have acquired the Protocols in 1901.

In the 1905 edition of his book, Nilus claimed that the meetings of the Elders of Zion referred to in the Protocols took place in 1902-03. History of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zionįreemasonry was linked to the Protocols by Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus (1862-1929) when he included the Protocols as an appendix to the 1905 second edition of his 1901 autobiography, The Great in the Small: Antichrist considered as an imminent political possibility (Sergiev Posad, 1905).

Warrant for Genocide by Norman Cohn