Schiff and many Americans were definitely involved in funding Russian revolutionaries -- that was quite a common thing. The posthumous memoirs of Samuel Harper, a Rockefeller man and one of the founding figures of Slavic studies in the US, are quite frank on this point. Not online, but I recall an anecdote about some little old lady in Chicago writing a check and saying "I hope this one pays for the bomb that blows up the Czar!"
Your second point is entirely correct. However, they're not one click away from "Haven Monahan", yet another Fidel eulogy, Trump as the puppet of Putin, etc. You can't possibly think it's this easy to have a clue?
A nice factual fact, by the way, is Averell Harriman's giant manganese concession in Georgia in the '20s:
https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Believe-Memoirs-Samuel-Harper/...
Your second point is entirely correct. However, they're not one click away from "Haven Monahan", yet another Fidel eulogy, Trump as the puppet of Putin, etc. You can't possibly think it's this easy to have a clue?
A nice factual fact, by the way, is Averell Harriman's giant manganese concession in Georgia in the '20s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiatura_mine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman
Giant holes in the ground are hard to sweep under the rug...