Bad timing, Neal.
for you:
http://www.roozonline.com/english/in...f-victory.html
A position on the detail that falls somewhere inbetween your and my view of it.
And a summary of several aspects, infos and persons that speak for and against the "conspiration" against an octobre surprise - as I said somewhere above, one must admit that it is controversially perceived, but summa summarum imho more speaks for that it existed than what speaks against it.
http://www.de-fact-o.com/fact_read.php?id=31