Boris Brasol

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The Protocols

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Editions of The Protocols
First publication of The Protocols Programma zavoevaniya mira evreyami
Writers, editors, and publishers associated with The Protocols Carl Ackerman · Boris Brasol G. Butmi · Natalie de Bogory Denis Fahey · Henry Ford · L. Fry Howell Gwynne · Harris Houghton Pavel Krushevan · Victor Marsden Sergei Nilus · George Shanks Fyodor Vinberg · Clyde J. Wright
Debunkers of The Protocols Vladimir Burtsev · Norman Cohn John S. Curtiss · Philip Graves Michael Hagemeister Pierre-André Taguieff · Lucien Wolf
Influenced by The Protocols The International Jew The Jewish Bolshevism · Mein Kampf
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Boris Leo Brasol (or Brazol) (1885 - ?), a White Russian, a Russian immigrant to the United States, and formerly a Lieutenant in the Tsar's military, was the person primarily responsible, together with Natalie de Bogory, for the first, annotated, USA edition, in book or pamphlet form, of the notorious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Under the lead title, The Protocols and World Revolution, the text was published in Boston, in 1920, by the prestigious publishing house of Small, Maynard & Company. This 149-page edition was based on the translation of chapter XII of Sergei Nilus's Russian language 1905 book, whose title is transliterated as "The Great within the Minuscule...," a book about the imminent appearance of the anti-Christ. It was largely through his influence that the book was first published in the USA in August 1920. He accomplished this while his Socialism vs. Civilization had just been published in February of the the same year.

Brasol was employed by Henry Ford's private detective agency, and he was its most notorious employee. Brasol immigrated to the United States in 1916 from Russia, in response to the Russian revolution — he was a monarchist. He had been a member of the Black Hundreds.

Robert Singerman, a recognized authority on antisemitic propaganda, quotes from the January 28, 1933, New York Times issue:

To the Jews of the United States, Boris Brasol certainly deserved their judgment of him as a life-long "public enemy" for his role in bringing the Protocols to America."

According to Norman Cohn, "Brasol was active in Nazi intrigues up to 1939" in the United States [p. 177, footnote 18].

Brasol also pursued a successful career as a literary critic and criminologist and published several books in each of these fields.

Main article: Protocols of the Elders of Zion