35. Vozdukhoplavatel, 1911, No. 8, p.424ff (State Public Library, St Petersburg).
36. Ibid.
37. The Komendantskoe Pole Aerodrome was closed in 1963 to make way for the building of apartment blocks. St Petersburg’s airport is today located at Pulkovo.
38. Portraits of Unusual People, Vladimir Krymov, p.70.
39. Kratkie informatsionnye materially, p.94, State Public Library, St Petersburg.
40. Ibid.
41. Portraits of Unusual People, Vladimir Krymov, p.70.
42. Representation in the Ottoman Empire by Walter Berghaus, Volume 1 1903-1913, File 1118, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg State Archive; also Walter Berghaus File, Dahiliye Emniyey Collection, Basbakanlik Osmanli Arsivi, Cagaloglu, Istanbul, Turkey.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Portraits of Unusual People,Vladimir Krymov, p.71.
48. Gofman’s death was reported in Novoe Vremya on 19 October 1911, p.1.
49. A report by the State Historical Archive, St Petersburg, on ‘Kiuba’s’, dated 21 March 2001 (commissioned by the author).
50. According to Vienna Police records, ‘Dr Sidney Reilly’ (born St Petersburg 20 February 1872) stayed at the Hotel Bristol with his ‘wife’ Erna (Ernestine) Reilly (born 1886) prior to 2 March 1911 and again from 6 March 1911. During the intervening week he was staying at the Weiner Cottage Sanatorium (Meldearchiv, Antiquariat ‘B’, 1911, Vienna City Archive).
51. Records of the ‘New English Club’ (Central State Historical Archives of St Petersburg, Fond 1115, Inventory 1, Files 1–25).
52. Ibid.
53. Letter from Cecil Mackie to Consular Department, 10 December 1918, PRO FO 369/1025, item 7.
54. The name of the project was Nikoliev.
55. Count Thaddaeus Lubiensky.
56. Large cruiser.
57. Small cruiser.
58. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Kurt Orbanowsky, 25 April 1912, File 1083, Archives of Blohm & Voss GmbH, State Archive of Hamburg.
59. Letter from Sir Charles Ottley (St Petersburg) to London Office, 30 September 1912 (Rendel Papers 31/7595, Tyne & Wear Archives Service).
60. Reilly: Ace of Spies, Thames Television, 1983.
61. History of the Russian Secret Service, Richard Deacon, p.143ff.
62. Counter-intelligence surveillance report on Sidney G. Reilly, 28 November 1911, Fond 2000, Inventory 15, File 177, Russian State Military Historical Archive, Moscow.
63. Department of Police Report to the Interior Ministry re Krylia, 23 December 1910, Fond 102, 4 deloproizvodstvo, 1910, Inventory 106 litera B, tom 8, listy 19–23, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
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1. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 10 September 1918.
2. Reilly had first met Abram Zhivotovsky in the Far East, a decade earlier. Portraits of Unusual People, Vladimir Krymov, p.70.
3. Letter from Margaret Reilly to the War Office, dated 16 November 1918 refers to last receiving news from her husband on 28 July 1914 (Reilly Papers CX 2616). His letter to Nadezhda is noted in ‘US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 10 September 1918’.
4. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 23 August 1918.
5. Steaming Up!, Samuel M. Vauclain with Earl Chapin May, p.236.
6. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 11 October 1918. Reilly’s ‘London representative’ was Alexandre Weinstein.
7. US Immigration, Port of San Francisco, Volume 7978, p.26, 13 January 1915.
8. Ibid.
9. New York Directory 1915.
10. Ibid.
11. Russko-Amerikanskie ekonomicheskie otnosheniia, 1900–1917, V.V.Lebedev, pp.142–44.
12. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 23 August 1918 (pp.1–3); and Memorandum of 10 September 1918, p.2.
13. Incorporation Certificate, Allied Machinery Company of America, 18 May 1911, Certificate and Report of Inspectors of Election of the Allied Machinery Company of America, Stockholders Meeting, 27 November 1916.
14. J.P. Morgan Jr, 1867–1943, John D. Forbes (University of Virginia Press, 1981), p.89.
15. Tacoma Daily News, 3 February 1915, p.1.
16. ‘Sidney Reilly in America, 1914–1917’ by Richard B. Spence, Intelligence and National Security, Volume 10, No. 1, January 1995, pp.98–99.
17. James R. Mann was a member of the US House of Representatives who authored and sponsored ‘The Mann Act’ of 1910. This forbade, under heavy penalties, the transportation of women from one state to another for immoral purposes.
18. US Immigration, Port of New York, Volume 5510, 15 February 1915.
19. Portraits of Unusual People, Vladimir Krymov, p.72.
20. Certificate of Marriage of Sidney G. Reilly and Nadine Zalessky, 16 February 1915, Marriage Register No. 4404–15, Borough of Manhattan.
21. The Career of Sidney Reilly, 1895–1925: A Case Study in Circumstantial Evidence, G.L. Owen (unpublished manuscript).
22. US Immigration, Port of New York, Volume 5500, 3 April 1915.
23. New York Times, 26 April 1915, SS Kursk sailed at 12 p.m. on 27 April 1915.
24. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 10 September 1918 and Memorandum of 12 September 1918.
25. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 10 September 1918.
26. ‘Sidney Reilly in America, 1914–1917’, Richard B. Spence, Intelligence and National Security, Volume 10, No. 1, January 1995, p.119, note 87.
27. Fond 1343, Inventory 8, File 269 (Russian State Military Historical Archive, Moscow).
28. Ibid.
29. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, copy of Report on ‘de Wyckoff’ dated January 1917 from French Deuxieme Bureau to ONI).
30. Fond 1343, Inventory 8, File 269, Russian State Military Historical Archive, Moscow.
31. US Immigration, Port of New York, Volume 5587, 10 July 1915.
32. ‘Sidney Reilly in America, 1914–1917’, Richard B. Spence, Intelligence and National Security, Volume 10, No. 1, January 1995, pp.96–97.
33. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 31 August 1918.
34. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 12 September 1918.
35. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Gen. A.V. Germonius (Fond 6173, Inventory 1, File 25, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow).
36. Portraits of Unusual People, Vladimir Krymov, pp.72–73.
37. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 11 October 1918.
38. US Military Observer, Berlin to AC of S, G-2, US Army, Subject: Lurich, 3 November 1921 (UDS, File 800 11-381, Maj. W. Cowles to W. Hurley, Office of Under Secretary, Department of State, 10 December 1921).
39. Velvet and Vinegar, Norman G. Thwaites (Grayson and Grayson, 1932), pp.181–82.
40. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 23 August 1918.
41. Velvet and Vinegar, Norman G. Thwaites, p.181.
42. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 31 July 1916, p.1.
43. ‘Sidney Reilly in America, 1914–1917’, Richard B. Spence, Intelligence and National Security, Volume 10, No. 1, January 1995, p.105ff.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Sabotage at Black Tom, Jules Witcover (Algonquin Chapel Hill, 1989), p.160.
47. ‘Sidney Reilly in America, 1914–1917’, Richard B. Spence, Intelligence and National Security, Volume 10, No. 1, January 1995, pp.108–9. The theory that Jahnke was a double agent is dispelled in the US National Counterintelligence Center’s American Revolution to World War Two, Frank J. Rafalko (ed.), Chapter Three, p.11 and note 152. British sources also reject the view that Jahnke had any connection with SIS.