Boris Brasol

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Boris Leo Brasol (or Brazol) (b. 1885 - d.?), a White Russian, Russian immigrant to the United States, and formerly a Lieutenant in the Tsar's military, is the person primarily responsible, together with Natalie de Bogory, for the first, annotated, USA edition, in book or booklet form, of the notorious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, 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 Miniscule...," 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 by a small publishing house.

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.