The ARF was very effective at this junction but the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party had a problem: The Ottoman intelligence service had an agent operating under Hunchakian Party from as early as 1913. The Imperial Government knew about an alleged attempted assassination plan against Interior Minister Talaat Pasha; the Ottoman government captured the central Hunchakian operatives in a single operation in July 1914 using the comprehensive account of the decisions adopted by the Hunchakian Congress (1913) along the list of the participants. The trials took a year and the participants, named the 20 Hunchakian gallows were executed on 15 June 1915.