On November 19, 1999, Patrick Bishop reported from Paris: Research by a leading Russian historian, Mikhail Lepekhine, in recently opened archives has found the forgery to be the work of Mathieu Golovinski, opportunistic scion of an aristocratic but rebellious family that drifted into a life of espionage and propaganda work.
Golovinski had been linked to the work before; the German writer Konrad Heiden identified him as an author of the Protocols in 1944 [REF].