David Floyd, Communist affairs expert for The Daily Telegraph, concluded that the book was “not genuine.” He believes that somebody in the West prepared the volume.
Victor Zorza, in The Guardian, devoted a series of five long articles to arguing that the United States Central Intelligence Agency was the source.
Book Termed Hoax
He termed the book a hoax and a scissors and paste job of the C.I.A., which, he said, hoped to repeat its “most successful operation of all time” —the publication of Mr. Khrushchev's anti‐Stalinist secret speech to the Soviet party congress in 1956.