Ace of Spies (45 page)

32. Report dated 9 March 1918 (Sidney Reilly's MI5 File PF 864103).

33. Telegram CX 023100, CMX 201, received London 2.20 p.m. 14 March 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

34. 2 Whitehall Court (today part of the Royal Horseguards Hotel) was designed by the architects Archer and Green and built in 1884. Conveniently situated opposite the War Office, it was, to all intents and purposes, a faceless apartment block. C had commandeered the top floor and rented it under the name of Capt. Spencer (Kelly's Post Office Directory 1918).

35. 
Red Dusk and the Morrow,
Sir Paul Dukes (Williams and Norgate, 1923), p.9. In Ace
of Spies,
p.98, Robin Bruce Lockhart states that ‘when Dukes was summoned for his first interview with the Secret Service chief, Reilly was present at the meeting and endorsed Cumming's selection'. However, it is clear from Dukes' own account that the interview took place in July 1918 when Reilly was in Russia
(The Story of ST25,
Sir Paul Dukes, Cassell, 1938, pp.28–29.

36. Diary of Mansfield Cumming – 15 March 1918.

37. Telegram CX 023996, CXM 212, received London 2.25 p.m. 21 March 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

38. Diary of Mansfield Cumming – 22 March 1918.

39. Memorandum from MI5 to Irish Command, dated 22 March 1918 (Sidney Reilly's MI5 File PF 864103).

40. Memorandum from Irish Command to MI5, dated 31 March 1918 (Sidney Reilly's MI5 File PF 864103).

41. The prefix ST refers to the SIS station through which Reilly was reporting – Stockholm.

N
INE
–
T
HE
R
EILLY
P
LOT

1.   Telegram CXM 159, dated 29 March 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

2.   Letter from Stephen Alley to Robin Bruce Lockhart, dated 13 May 1966, Box 6, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California.

3.   Telegram dated 22 March 1918, 5.25 p.m. (Sidney Reilly's MI5 File PF 864103/V1).

4.   The fact that C also refers to Reilly as ‘Reilli' in his telegram CXM 159 of 29 March 1918 strongly suggests that this misspelling is intentional.

5.   Ibid., note 34.

6.   US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report dated 16 September 1918, p.1, from Chief Yeoman Bond to H. Hunnewell and A. Smith.

7.   Gen. Edward Spears recalled Reilly telling him of ‘a valuable collection of coins and Napoleonic relics' he wanted to retrieve. It is also apparent from Spears' letter that some or all of this collection was still in Russia in 1925 (letter to Robin Bruce Lockhart dated 2 January 1967, Box 6, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection, Hoover Institution Archive, Stanford, California.

8.   Telegram CX 027753, dated 16 April 1918 (
Reilly papers
CX 2616).

9.   Ibid.

10. 
Memoirs of a British Agent,
Robert Bruce Lockhart (p.276).

11. Ibid.

12. The following month Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour cabled Lockhart castigating his judgement and advice: ‘You have at different times advised against Allied intervention in any form; against it by the Japanese alone; against it with Japanese assistance; against it at Vladivostock; in favour of it at Murmansk; in favour of it with an invitation; in favour of it without an invitation since it was really desired by the Bolsheviks; in favour of it without invitation whether the Bolsheviks desired it or not'. ‘Lockhart Plot or Dzerzhinskii Plot?', R.K. Debo, pp.426–427.

13. 
Sidney Reilly – The True Story,
Michael Kettle, p.24;
Ace of Spies,
Robin Bruce Lockhart, pp.67–68;
Master Spy,
Edward Van Der Rhoer, pp.24–25.

14. Telegram CX 013592, sent from Moscow on 12 May 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669).

15. Telegram CX 035402, sent from Moscow on 29 May 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669).

16. Ibid.

17. Telegram CX 035176, sent from Moscow, 3 June 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669).

18. Dagmara Genrikhovna Karozus was not, as suggested by previous writers, a Russian. She was in fact German, and as such had been on Department of Police files since 1914 (Fond 102, 6 deloproizvodstvo, opis 174, delo 69, tom 30, listy 37-40, 1914, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow).

19. Personal file of Elizaveta Emilyevna Otten, Inventory 6, edinitsa khranenija 120, Obraztsov State Academic Theatre, Moscow.

20. Account of the trial proceedings of the Supreme Tribunal, Moscow, of 29 November 1918, as reported in
Izvestia,
1 December 1918.

21. Vladimir Grigoryevich Orlov (1882-1941), a former counter-intelligence officer in the First World War, who served in the Criminal Department of the Cheka in Petrograd. To conceal his real identity he adopted the name Boleslav Orlinsky. In September 1918 he fled to Finland and later served on Denikin's counter-intelligence staff in the Civil War. In 1920 he settled in Germany where he continued his fight against the Bolsheviks by publishing compromising material about them in the western press. He was thought to be the prime suspect in connection with the forged Zinoviev letter, although nothing was ever proven. He was shot by the Gestapo in 1941 for anti-Nazi activity.

22. 
Master Spy,
Edward Van Der Rhoer, p.224ff;
History of the Russian Secret Service,
Richard Deacon, p.264ff;
Reilly – The First Man,
Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.55; ‘The Terrorist and the Master Spy: The Political Partnership of Boris Savinkov and Sidney Reilly, 1918–25', Richard Spence,
Revolutionary Russia,
Vol. 4, No. 1, June 1991, p.120ff.

23. Master Spy, Edward Van Der Rhoer, p.47.

24. Account of the trial proceedings of the Supreme Tribunal, Moscow of 29 November 1918, as reported in
Izvestia,
1 December 1918.

25. The Hotel Elite was situated at 2 Petrovka Street, ten minutes walk from the Bolshoi Theatre. It was later renamed the Hotel Aurora, after the battleship which fired on the Winter Palace during the Great October Revolution. It is known today as the Budapest Hotel.

26. 
Memoirs of a British Agent,
Robert Bruce Lockhart, pp.314–16, ‘Final Report of Robert Bruce Lockhart to Foreign Secretary Balfour', dated 7 November 1918 (PRO FO 371/3337/185499).

27. ‘Final Report of Robert Bruce Lockhart', Ibid.; ‘Report of Work Done in Russia' by Capt. George Hill (PRO FO 371/3350/79980).

28. Reilly's tactic of ‘divide and rule', referred to by Nadine as his ‘system' (US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report from Chief Yeoman Bond to H. Hunnewell and A. Smith, dated 10 September 1918), is discussed in Chapter Seven in the context of his dealings with Blohm & Voss.

29. 
Memoirs of a British Agent,
Robert Bruce Lockhart, p.316.

30. FO 371/3348, No. 190442, dated 5 November 1918.

31. George Hill was initially assigned to Military Intelligence after being discharged on 13 June 1915 as a result of being wounded in France. He undertook assignments in the Balkans, Egypt and Russia for the director of Military Intelligence at the War Office, before being assigned to SIS in 1918. In his 1932 account of this period
(Go Spy the Land)
he refers to himself as Agent IK8 of the British Secret Service. However, ‘IK' does not appear to be an SIS prefix and one must therefore assume that it was a code name given to him by Military Intelligence. While operating in Russia on behalf of SIS, Hill had an ST prefix like all other agents in this field of operation (Service File No. 51224, Capt. George A. Hill, Canadian Department of National Defense; Army Service Record of Capt. George A Hill (PRO Pi 15714)).

32. The allegation appeared in
Izvestia
on 3rd September 1918. George Hill refers to Reilly's objection to making martyrs of Lenin and Trotsky in his ‘Report of Work Done in Russia' (PRO FO 371/3350/79980). Likewise, there is no reference to Reilly's alleged intention to have Lenin and Trotsky shot in either the report by K.A. Peterson (Political Commissar of the Latvian Rifle Division – State Archive of the Russian Federation, Fond 1235, Inventory 93, File 207) or in the 1924 memoirs of Jacob Peters (Deputy Chairman of the Cheka), the two most reliable Soviet sources who were actually involved in these events.

33. Petition to the Red Cross for the Aid of Political Prisoners from Citizen Olga Sarzhevskaya, Butyrka Prison, Moscow, 11 November 1918 (Fond 8419, Inventory 1, File 356, sheets 355–356, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow).

34. The ‘divorced lady' is a reference to Olga Starzheskaya, born Stavropol 1893. She was divorced in 1915 (questioning of Olga Starzheskaya by Varlaam Avanesov (Fond 8419, Inventory 1, File 321, sheets 60–62, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow).

35. Petition to the Red Cross for the Aid of Political Prisoners from Citizen Elizaveta Otten, Butyrka Prison, Moscow, 11 September 1918 (Fond 8419, Inventory 1, File 155, sheets 174-175, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow).

36. 
Izvestia,
1 September 1918, and in a hand bill ‘Sensational plot discovered to overthrow Soviet government' by G. Chicherin (People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs) distributed to Allied troops at Archangel.

T
EN
–
F
OR
D
ISTINGUISHED
S
ERVICE

1.   ‘Report of Work Done in Russia' by George Hill (PRO FO 371/3350/79980).

2.   Ibid.

3.   Ibid.

4.   Ibid. Hill gave Reilly his passport, which was in the name of George Bergmann, and Reilly replaced the photograph with his own. Hill had chosen the name for himself as he ‘hated giving up the name of Hill, and finally decided to get as near it as I could in German. That is why I chose Berg, the equivalent for Hill, and tacked on ‘mann' to make it quite certain I was of German descent'.
Go Spy the Land,
George Hill, Cassell, 1932, p.217.

5.   Account of the trial proceedings of the Supreme Tribunal, Moscow, of 29 November 1918, as reported in
Izvestia,
1 December 1918.

6.   ‘Report of Work Done in Russia' by George Hill (PRO FO 371/3350/79980).

7.   
Go Spy the Land,
George Hill, p.245.

8.   Ibid.

9.   ‘Report of Work Done in Russia' by George Hill (PRO FO 371/3350/79980).

10. ‘Trust' File No. 302330, Vol. 37, p.241 (Central Archive of the Federal Security Service, Moscow).

11. Ibid. In this account he refers to the captain as Finnish. In fact Harry Van den Bosch was a Dutchman who lived in Revel and sailed to and from Petrograd. The reference to a Finn was no doubt to protect the identity of Van den Bosch from the OGPU.

12. Letter to Harry Van den Bosch from Sidney Reilly, dated 10 October 1918 as reproduced in
Sidney Reilly – The True Story,
Michael Kettle, p.49ff.

13. Telegram 3472 ‘Personal and Most Secret', 30 September 1918 (PRO FO/371/3319).

14. Letter from Lt-Col. C.N. French at the War Office to Ronald Campbell of the Foreign Office, 10 October 1918 (PRO FO 371/3319).

15. Letter from Mrs M Reilly to the Netherlands Legation (British Section), 17 October 1918, PRO FO 383/379, item 12, File 117953.

16. Letter from Margaret Reilly to the War Office, dated 16 November 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

17. Letter from Margaret Reilly to the Air Board, dated 4 January 1919 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

18. The Last Will and Testament of Margaret Reilly, 15 May 1914, High Court of Justice, London, Principal Probate Registry, Ref. 1292, 2 February 1934.

19. 
Go Spy the Land,
George Hill, p.262.

20. Ibid., p.263.

21. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Robert Bruce Lockhart, 25 November 1918, Lord Milner Papers, Great War, box 365c, Oxford University.

22. Letter from Reginald Hoare to Rex Leeper, 27 November 1918, PRO FO 371/4019.

23. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 10 December 1918; Passport No. 926 issued to S.G. Reilly, 12 December 1918, (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

24. 
Go Spy the Land,
George Hill, p.264.

25. Ibid., p.266.

26. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 14 December 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

27. Dreaded Hour, George Hill (Cassell, 1936), p.63.

28. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 17 December 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

29. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 19 December 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

30. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 23 December 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616)

31. Ibid.

32. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 25 December 1918 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

33. 
Dreaded Hour,
George Hill, pp.61–62.

34. Ibid. p.62.

35. Ibid. p.70.

36. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 13 January 1919 (
Reilly Paper
s CX 2616).

37. Reilly's Despatch No. 1, Sevastopol, 28 December 1918 (PRO FO 371/3962).

38. Reilly's Despatch No. 2, Ekaterinodar, 8 January 1919 (PRO FO 371/3962).

39. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 5 January 1919 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

40. Reilly's Despatch No. 2.

41. Ibid.

42. Ibid.

43. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 8 January 1919 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

44. Reilly's Despatch No. 4, Ekaterinodar, 11 January 1919 (PRO FO 371/3962).

45. Reilly's Despatch No. 5, Ekaterinodar, 17 January 1919 (PRO FO 371/3962).

46. Ibid.

47. Ibid.

48. Ibid.

49. Ibid.

50. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 14 January 1919 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).

51. Ibid.

52. The announcement that they had been awarded the Military Cross was published in the London Gazette, 12 February 1919; ‘His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the undermentioned rewards for distinguished services rendered in connection with military operations in the field:–Awarded the Military Cross, Lieut. George Alexander Hill, 4th Bn; Manch. R.; attd. RAF, 2nd Lt. Sidney George Reilly, RAF. On 5 January Denikin had also awarded Reilly the medal of St Anna.