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.
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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 Papers 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).