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58. Ace of Spies, Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.19ff.

59. Ace of Spies (1992 edition), Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.60.

60. Report of Agent L.S. Perkins of US Bureau of Investigation, ‘Sidney G. Reilly – Neutrality Matter’, 3 April 1917.

1. See Chapter Eight, note 55.

2. US War Department, General Staff, Military Intelligence Division (MID) Box 2506, File 9140–6073, Ralph Van Deman to William Wiseman, 7 July 1917.

3. Ibid., William Wiseman to Ralph Van Deman, 9 July 1917.

4. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum from Chief Yeoman Bond to Lt Irving; ‘Names in the Weinstein Case’.

5. Ibid.

6. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandums of 6 and 12 September 1918.

7. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 23 August 1918.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. See note 4.

12. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 21 August 1918.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid.

15. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 10 September 1918.

16. Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Reports of 6 June and 17 October 1918.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Memorandum of 10 September 1918.

21. Ibid.

22. Ibid.

23. American Revolution to World War II, Frank J. Rafalko (ed.), Chapter Three, note 114 (US National Counterintelligence Center).

24. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, ‘Reilly, Weinstein, Jachalsky Case: Synopsis of (copy of card file) of Persons Involved’, 4 September 1918.

25. Ibid.

26. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Reports of 10 and 12 September 1918. (In the spring of 1916 Nadine returned to Russia on word that her father had been taken ill. It would seem that Reilly’s relationship with Tremaine began during her absence. According to US Immigration Records, Nadine returned to New York on 18 June 1916. Her father eventually died on 20 July 1917 – Service Record of Petr Massino, Fond 400, Inventory 17, File 13135; Inventory 12, File 28672, Russian State Military Historical Archives, Moscow).

27. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, ibid.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid.

33. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Reports of 21 August, 6 and 10 September 1918.

34. Ibid.

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid.

37. Ibid.

38. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 17 October 1918.

39. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 10 September 1918.

40. Ibid.

41. Trust No One, Richard Spence, (Feral House, 2002), p25.

42. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report of 10 September 1918.

43. Ibid.

44. Ibid.

45. Ibid.

46. Steaming Up!, Samuel M. Vauclain with Earl Chapin May (Brewer and Warren, 1930), p.248.

47. Foreign Office Passport Names Index (FO) 611/24, Mrs Margaret Reilly, Passport No. 69238, issued 4 January 1916.

48. According to Leon C. Messenger (The Nanny with the Glass Eye, p.25), ‘Mother explained that Daisy (Margaret) had had many years experience as a governess’. We do not know when she first undertook such a post, but it is unlikely to have been before the war. The first recorded post as a governess is in 1922 for the Wary family in Belgium (ibid., pp.25–26), although it is unlikely that this was the first such post. Working for an English family in St Petersburg would be have been a natural move in the circumstances.

49. Department of State, Office of the Counselor, Subject: Norbert Mortimer Rodkinson’, 26 November 1918 (National Archives, Washington DC).

50. Entry 486, Register of Births in the Sub-district of Brixton in the Registration District of Lambeth in the County of Surrey, Corinne Elise Augusta Polens, 6 January 1881. Corinne was the daughter of Otto Polens, a German merchant and Corinne Knaggs, a London music hall performer. Her ‘doubtful morals’ no doubt refers to her alleged association with prostitution.

51. French term for prostitute.

52. US Bureau of Investigation, Memorandum by Agent R.W. Finch (New York City), 2 August 1918, re.: ‘One Rodkinson, aspirant for position on Russian Commission’.

53. 14th Census of the United States: 8 January 1920 (Manhattan, Enumeration District No. 566, Sheet 8A).

54. ONI, letter from Rear-Admiral Roger Welles (director of Naval Intelligence) to A. Bruce Bielaski (chief, US Bureau of Investigation), January 1919 (National Archives, Washington DC).

1. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, report dated 17 October 1918, p.2; from Chief Yeoman Bond to Hollis Hunnewell.

2. Ibid.

3. Velvet and Vinegar, by Norman G. Thwaites, p.181.

4. Ibid.

5. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, memorandum to Lt Irvine, dated 23 August 1918.

6. Diary of Mansfield Cumming, March 1918 (quotations from the diary are taken from The Quest for C by Alan Judd); Army List and Indian Army List (PRO) indicates that John Dymoke Scale (born 27 December 1882) was an Indian Army career officer who had first been sent to Russia in December 1912. In June 1913 he qualified as a Russian interpreter first class before rejoining the 87th Punjabis in July 1914. At the outbreak of war he was transferred to France where he distinguished himself in the trenches, was promoted to major in May 1916 and awarded the DSO in April 1917. That same month he was sent back to Russia and attached to the SIS station in Petrograd, which is also corroborated by History of the British Intelligence Organisation, M.K. Burge, p.7, Intelligence Corps Museum, Chicksands, Bedfordshire.

7. Diary of Mansfield Cumming, 17 March 1918.

8. Velvet and Vinegar, Norman G. Thwaites, p.181.

9. ‘Sidney Reilly in America, 1914–1917’, Richard Spence, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January 1995), p.111.

10. RAF Service Record of 2nd Lt Sidney G. Reilly (PRO Pi21220).

11. Velvet and Vinegar, Norman G. Thwaites, p.183.

12. ‘Sidney Reilly in America, 1914–1917’, Richard Spence, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January 1995), p.112.

13. Diary of Air Mechanic R.H. Ibbertson, ref DB340, RAF Museum, Hendon.

14. In 1919 Beatrice Tremaine met Douglas Rollins, son of former New Hampshire Governor Frank West Rollins, in Florida. They married in 1921 and lived in Europe until his death on 9 June 1932. On her death in 1986, her estate, including her letters and papers passed to her sons Douglas Jr and Gordon Rollins.

15. RAF Service Record of 2nd Lt Sidney G. Reilly (PRO Pi21220).

16. The Bolsheviks’ seizure of power on 25 October 1917 (Julian calendar) is here and henceforth referred to as 7 November 1917 (Gregorian calendar).

17. Reilly refers to the School of Military Aeronautics in a document dated 12 October 1921 concerning his claim for arrears of pay and gratuity ( Reilly Papers CX 2616).

18. Counter-intelligence surveillance report on Sidney G. Reilly, 28 November 1911, Fond 2000, Inventory 15, File 177, Russian State Military Historical Archives, Moscow.

19. Alphabetical Directory of Inhabitants of the City of St Petersburg, State Public Library, St Petersburg, TsSB, S591 Len V-38.

20. Canadian Department of National Defense, Directorate of Military History, Special card index, ‘2nd Lt Sidney G. Reilly MC’.

21. Report dated 9 March 1918 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103). The Hotel Cecil next door to the Savoy had unfortunately been commandeered by the War Office for additional office space.

22. Passport of John Dymoke Scale No 173914 (The Papers of John Dymoke Scale)

23. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Col. Byron, War Office, dated 19 January 1918 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103).