 The plaintiffs invited witnesses who testified that the "Protocols" was originally written in France in the late 1890s by agents of the Russian secret police and later translated into Russian.According to their version, the main perpetrators were police commander Pyotr Rachkovsky and his unsavoury collaborator Matvei Golovinski.This account became generally accepted following the publication of Norman Cohn's "Warrant for Genocide" in 1966, which added many details to it.