3. The Gadfly by E.L. Voynich (Heinemann 1897, p.341ff).
4. A collection of reviews and articles about The Gadfly are to be found in the Boole Family Collection, presented to Lincolnshire County Archives by Gabrielle Boole in July 1985.
5. ‘The Gadfly and the Spy’ by Tibor Szamuely, The Spectator, 17 May 1968, p.665.
6. BBC World Service, Russian Language Programme, broadcast 7.00 p.m. 9 June 1968
7. ‘George Boole, His Life and Work’ by Desmond MacHale, p.273.
8. Ibid., p.274.
9. E.L. Voynich, Evgenia Taratuta, Moscow, 1970.
10. ‘Who Admired Pavka Korchagin?’ by Boris Polevoi and Evgenia Taratuta (Izvestia, No. 11, 12 June 1968, p.3).
11. Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–72) founded the Young Italy movement in 1831, which was dedicated to achieving a united, republican Italian state.
12. From the Papers of Hugh Millar.
13. Letters from W. Field Robertson to George Hill, dated 6 and 9 September 1935 (Box 6, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection at the Hoover Institution Archive, Stanford, California).
14. US Immigration Service, Passenger Arrival List Index Cards, Volumes 6332–14197 (1919–1941).
15. Letter from Edward Spears to Robin Bruce Lockhart, dated 2 January 1967 (Box 6, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection, Hoover Institution Archive, Stanford, California).
16. An Interrupted Friendship, E.L. Voynich (Macmillan, 1910), p.139ff.
APPENDIX TWO – MISTAKEN IDENTITY
1. Sidney Reilly – The True Story, Michael Kettle, p.16.
2. Ibid., p.15.
3. Ibid., p.16.
4. Ibid., p.16.
5. Ibid., p.17.
6. Ace of Spies, Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.182.
7. Mining the Challenge – 150 Years of the Royal School of Mines, Anne Barrett, p.1, and Imperial College by Richard G. Williams and Anne Barrett, p.10.
8. City of Cambridge Directory 1906.
9. Minute Book of the Trinity College Boat Club, 14 October 1905 (Trinity College Library).
10. Entry 271, Register of Deaths in the Sub-district of Epsom and Ewell in the Registration District of Surrey Eastern in the County of Surrey, 13 June 1952.
11. Aline Reilly – interview with the author on 2 September 2000; Noel Reilly – interview with the author on 22 September 2000.
12. Indian Army List 1918/1920; Indian Army Reserve List (PRO); Thackers’ India Office Biographical Index (India Office Records – British Library).
13. Baptismal Records for Dehra Dun, Volume 376, Folio 9 (India Office Records – British Library).
14. Entry 111, Register of Deaths in the Sub-district of Hornsey in the Registration District of Edmonton in the County of Middlesex, 18 September 1945.
APPENDIX THREE – THE FACTORY FIREMAN
1. Spies, Jay Robert Nash (M. Evans & Company, New York, 1997), p.412.
2. Ace of Spies, Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.36ff; Reilly: The First Man, Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.5. Curiously, when a revised edition of Ace of Spies was published in 1992, the reference to Krupps story was unaltered.
3. In Troy Kennedy-Martin’s 1983 Thames Television adaption, Reilly: Ace of Spies, the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg is substituted for the Krupps plant in Essen, and Reilly’s alias is changed from Hahn to Fricker.
4. Master Spy, Edward Van Der Rhoer, p.ix ff.
5. ‘100th Anniversary of Freidrich Krupp’, 1912 (p.138/140), Historisches Archiv Krupp, Essen.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. File WA 41/3–46, Historisches Archiv Krupp, Essen.
9. Ibid., File WA 41/6–64.
10. Ibid., File WA 41/6–255.
11. Ibid., File WA 41/6–274.
APPENDIX FOUR – THE BATTLESHIP BLUEPRINTS
1. Ace of Spies, Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.54.
2. Ibid., p.51/54.
3. There are references on 2 March and 28 June 1910 to the recruitment and debriefing of Bywater in the diary of Sir Mansfield Cumming.
4. Strange Intelligence, Hector Bywater (Constable, 1931); The Quest for C, Alan Judd, pp.143 and 257.
APPENDIX FIVE – RESCUING THE TSAR
1. The Plots to Rescue the Tsar, Shay McNeal (Century 2001), p137
2. Ibid, p120
3. Ibid, p121
4. PRO WO 33/962, Item 14, telegram 59154, Director of Military Intelligence to Brigadier-General Poole, 28 May 1918.
5. The Plots to Rescue the Tsar, Shay McNeal, p122
6. Reilly’s report (Affairs in Russia, CX 038307, 22nd June 1918) is appended to a letter from the Director of Military Intelligence to the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 9 July 1918, PRO FO 371/3315, paper 301.
7. The Plots to Rescue the Tsar, Shay McNeal, p143.
8. For example: Telegram CX 013592, 12th May 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669); Telegram 035402, 29th May 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669); Telegram CX 034907 (PRO WO/325669); Telegram CX 035176, 3rd June 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669); Telegram CX 038307, 22 June 1918 (PRO FO 371/3315).
9. The orders concerning Reilly’s mission to Russia are referred to in the letter from Lt-Col. C N French of the War Office to Ronald Campbell of the Foreign Office, 10th October 1918, PRO FO 371/3319.
10. ‘Report of Work Done in Russia’ by George Hill (PRO FO 371/3350/79980).
11. The Plots to Rescue the Tsar, Shay McNeal, p58.
12. Ibid.
13. Rescuing the Tsar by James P Smythe (California Printing Company, 1920).
14. The Plots to Rescue the Tsar by Shay McNeal, p131.
15. Ibid, p234.
APPENDIX SIX – THE ZINOVIEV LETTER
1. Sidney Reilly – The True Story, Michael Kettle, p.130.
2. A Most Extraordinary and Mysterious Business: The Zinoviev Letter of 1924, Gill Bennett (Foreign & Commonwealth Office General Services Command), Annex A.
3. Sidney Reilly – The True Story Michael Kettle, p.121; ‘Hand of British spy seen in Zinoviev Letter’, by David Bonavia, Sunday Times, 15 February 1970, p.4. The handwritten copy of the Zinoviev Letter reproduced in Kettle’s book was discovered by Harvard University Associate William Butler in the papers of former US Consul C.D. Westcott at the Harvard Law School (Harvard Library Bulletin, 1970).
4. Ibid.
5. Britain’s Master Spy – The Adventures of Sidney Reilly, p.200.
6. See note 3 above.
7. Reilly’s letter to Felix Dzerzhinsky of 30 October 1925 (‘Trust’ File No. 302330, Vol. 37, p.366, Central Archive of the Federal Security Service, Moscow) contains a number of words that occur in the Zinoviev Letter – president, presidium, Moscow, British and Russian for example. These are all markedly different in construction and appearance than those in the ‘handwritten’ Zinoviev Letter.