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Authors: Andrew Cook

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The Security Service 1908–1945, The Official History
(PRO, 1999).

L
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M
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:

p19
Hugh Thomas during his tenure as Vicar of Old Newton, Suffolk (c.1860).
p21
News of Thomas
'
s sudden death was very quickly picked up by the local press.
p40
Sigmund Rosenblum gave the name of solicitor L.J. Sandford to vouch for his application to be allowed to research into medieval art at the British Museum.
p42
Rosenblum & Company was to all intents and purposes a patent medicine racket set up in 1896.
p46
Sigmund Rosenblum married Margaret Thomas five months after her husband
'
s sudden death.
p50
The coat of arms on Rosenblum
'
s letter-head incorporated the doubleheaded Russian eagle and shamelessly appropriated the Thomas family motto
‘
no faith in the world
'
.
p95
Advertisement in Vozdukhoplavatel announcing the opening of the Krylia Aerodrome in September 1910; another Reilly project financed by other people
'
s money.
p112
Reilly
'
s marriage on 16 February 1915 almost certainly saved him from arrest by the New York Police Department.
p170
A Russian propaganda leaflet issued to Allied troops in Murmansk, naming Reilly as a conspirator in the plot to
‘
overthrow the Russian Revolution
'
.
p173
The key to the SIS dictionary code used by Reilly and Hill to communicate with each other while in hiding.
p223
The only true statement Reilly made about himself in the Marriage Register was his address; everything else from his name, age, former rank and the status of his father, was a complete fabrication.

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