A German named Herman Goedsche developed Joly's material into a series of novels, which found their way into Russia, where the secret police plagiarized them into this document in the late 19th century to shore up the position of Tsar Nikolas II by proposing an international Jewish conspiracy.
Its original source was a suspect anti-Freemason 1797 work by the Jesuit Abbe Barruel about the French Revolution. The more direct source was the satiric 1864 pamphlet "Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu," by Maurice Joly. A German named Herman Goedsche developed Joly's material into a series of novels, which found their way into Russia, where the secret police plagiarized them into this document in the late 19th century to shore up the position of Tsar Nikolas II by proposing an international Jewish conspiracy. FTP, name these documents, exposed as a fraud as early as the 1920s but still spreading through the Internet and Middle East as factual truth.
Its original source was a suspect anti-Freemason 1797 work by the Jesuit Abbe Barruel about the French Revolution.
{Protocols of the Elders of Zion}