And yet, did he communicate the plan to assassinate the leaders of the VKP? Of course, he communicated it...

Sokolnikov, of course, was providing information to Talbot about the USSR, about the CC, about the GPU, about everything. Sokolnikov — consequently — was an informant (spy-intelligence agent) of British intelligence.

Izvestiya TsK KPSS. 1989. No. 9. P. 39.