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Schneer also rather follows Lockhart in over-estimating the extent to which the British government, and British generals, ever had any intention of moving their forces out of Archangel and Murmansk to support uprisings against Bolshevik rule. Schneer shows how in spring 1918 Lockhart moved from seeking to build better relations between the Bolsheviks and British government to become the most important architect of efforts to destroy the government of Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotskii. Schneer uses collections of Russian documents to show how the Cheka became aware of these moves and sought to infiltrate the plotters and protect the Bolshevik regime. [Extracted from the article]