20. History of the Japanese Secret Service, Richard Deacon, pp.49–50. The original copy of this letter, along with other Deacon source material pertaining to this book was destroyed. This was confirmed in a letter to the author by Deacon’s widow, Eileen McCormick, dated 10 November 2000.
21. History of the Development of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, Lt-Col. William Isaac, PRO WO 106/6083, p.13.
22. Lt-Col. Joseph Newman retired from the army in 1892, having seen action during the Indian Mutiny 1857–58 and the Zulu Wars 1877–79, where he was mentioned in dispatches (The Army List 2031/2089, PR0).
23. Fond 846, Inventory 4, File 100 (Russian State Military Historical Archives, Moscow).
24. Fond 846, Inventory 4, File 77 (Russian State Military Historical Archives, Moscow).
25. Untitled synopsis by Margaret Reilly (as submitted to Cassell & Co. Ltd) November 1931.
26. Portraits of Unusual People, Vladimir Krymov (Paris, 1971), p.78.
27. History of the Japanese Secret Service, Richard Deacon, p.49; and Secrets of Espionage; Tales of the Secret Service, Winfried Ludecke, p.106.
28. Entry 255, 1870 Register of Births in the Sub-district of Penshurst in the Registration District of Sevenoaks in the County of Kent.
29. File of H.B. Collins, Fond 846, Inventory 4, File 92 (Russian State Military Historical Archives, Moscow).
30. Letters by and references to Anna Grigoryevna Collins are to be found in H.B. Collins’ file (note 27 above).
31. History of the Japanese Secret Service, Richard Deacon, p.49; and Secrets of Espionage; Tales of the Secret Service, Winfried Ludecke, p.106.
32. Memorandum dated 6 June 1904 (Melville Papers).
33. The Record of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd, Volume 1 (1901–18), pp.50– 51 – BP Amoco Archive, University of Warwick.
34. Ibid., p.49.
35. Ace of Spies, Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.41.
36. London Post Office Directories (Kellys) 1904/18.
37. Entry 475, Register of Deaths in the Sub-district South West Battersea, Registration District of Wandsworth in the County of London, 1 February 1918.
38. Author of ‘Counter-Espionage and Security in Great Britain during the First World War’, English Historical Review, Volume 101 (1986), and ‘British Internal Security in Wartime’, Intelligence and National Security,Volume 1 (1986).
39. The Origins of the Vigilant State, Bernard Porter (Boydell Press, 1987), p.230.
40. The barrister Henry Curtis-Bennett KC (knighted in 1922 and elected MP for Chelmsford in 1924, succeeding E.G. Pretyman as Conservative candidate) was given an honorary commission in the RNVR when he joined MI5 in 1917; Curtis: The Life of Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, Roland Wild and Derek Curtis-Bennett (Cassell, 1937), pp.66–79.
41. Memoir by William Melville MVO, MBE, PRO KV 1/8; The Security Service 1908-1945, The Official History, p50 (Public Record Office, 1999).
42. Ibid.
43. Rear-Admiral Esmond Slade, on retiring as director of the Naval Intelligence Division in 1909, reported to Prime Minister Herbert Asquith that ‘It is impossible to draw a line between the information which would be useful to one department or the other [Admiralty and War Office], so I endeavoured to establish a working agreement between the two offices’; PRO CAB 16/9B, p.195.
44. Le Littoral, 18 February 1904, p.1.
45. Melville had twice been honoured by the French government (Police Review, 17 May 1895, p.236; Police Review, 17 June 1903, p.344), and had also assisted the Ochrana in France (Ochrana Archive, Box 35, Index Vc, Folder 3).
46. As a Royal bodyguard he spoke several languages including French and Italian; I Guarded Kings, Harold Brust (Hillman Curl, 1936), p.44.
47. The Record of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd, Volume 1 (1901– 1918), p.52 – BP Amoco Archive, University of Warwick.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Alexandre Weinstein, dated 30 June 1905 (Papers of Mrs A.C.Menzies).
51. The Record of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd, Volume 1 (1901– 1918), p.52 – BP Amoco Archive, University of Warwick.
52. Ibid.
53. Untitled synopsis by Margaret Reilly (as submitted to Cassell & Co. Ltd), November 1931.
54. Police Department Report, dated 21 February 1905, Fond 102, Inventory 316, File 19, Sheet 38, 1905 (State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow).
55. Ibid.
FOUR – THE BROKER
1. A decade later the US Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, carried out extensive enquiries into Reilly’s background during the First World War. Their files contain several references to the movements of his ‘second wife’ (US Bureau of Investigation Case Files, 1908–1922; Old German File 39368. Also Office of Naval Intelligence; Files on A. Jachalski, S. Reilly and A. Weinstein, National Archives, Washington DC (hereafter referred to as Bureau of Investigation/ONI). US Bureau of Investigation/ONI synopsis of names in the Weinstein Case, 23 August 1918, p.8). The Bureau’s records concerning Reilly are examined in detail in Chapter Seven.
2. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI; 4 September 1918, Reilly, Weinstein, Jechalski Case: Synopsis of Persons involved, p.12.
3. Royal Air Force Record of Service; Sidney George Reilly MC (PRO, Pi 21220).
4. She eventually married a doctor, Ira Neufeldt, and moved to Warsaw where she was widowed in 1910.
5. Ochrana Surveillance Reports, S.G. Reilly, 11–29 September 1905, Fond 111, Inventory 1, Files 2960–2961, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
6. File 1061 (Correspondence with Count T. Lubiensky and J. Mendrochowitz); File 1062 (Applications for Business Representation in Russia 1904– 1919), Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive.
7. Ace of Spies, Robin Bruce Lockhart, pp.52–53. Police records on the arrival of foreign citizens in St Petersburg: Fond 102, Inventory 316, File 19, Sheet 38, 1905, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
8. Ochrana Surveillance Reports, S.G. Reilly, 11–29 September 1905, Fond 111, Inventory 1, Files 2960-2961, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow. Walford was managing clerk for a solicitor and a member of St Petersburg’s ‘English Colony’. He died in Dudley at the age of seventy-six (Entry 424, Register of Deaths in the Registration District of Dudley, 13 April 1934).
9. Telegram from J. Mendrochowitz to Blohm & Voss, 14 December 1908, File 1077, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive.
10. Letter to Hermann Frahm from Sidney Reilly, 13 April 1909; File 1077, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive.
11. Telegram from Hermann Frahm to Sidney Reilly, 14 April 1909, File 1077, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive.
12. Letter from J. Mendrochowitz to Blohm & Voss, 23 April 1909, File 1077, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive.
13. Telegram from Blohm & Voss to J. Mendrochowitz, 26 April 1909, File 1077, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive.
14. Letter from Blohm & Voss to Count T. Lubiensky and J. Mendrochowitz, 27 April 1909, File 1077, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive.
15. Letter from J. Mendrochowitz to Blohm & Voss, 27 April 1909, File 1077, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive.