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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.

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 Paper s 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).

39. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 5 January 1919 ( Reilly Papers CX 2616).

40. Reilly’s Despatch No. 2.

41. Ibid.

42. Ibid.

43. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 8 January 1919 ( Reilly Papers CX 2616).

44. Reilly’s Despatch No. 4, Ekaterinodar, 11 January 1919 (PRO FO 371/3962).

45. Reilly’s Despatch No. 5, Ekaterinodar, 17 January 1919 (PRO FO 371/3962).

46. Ibid.

47. Ibid.

48. Ibid.

49. Ibid.

50. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 14 January 1919 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).

51. Ibid.

52. The announcement that they had been awarded the Military Cross was published in the London Gazette, 12 February 1919; ‘His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the undermentioned rewards for distinguished services rendered in connection with military operations in the field:–Awarded the Military Cross, Lieut. George Alexander Hill, 4th Bn; Manch. R.; attd. RAF, 2nd Lt. Sidney George Reilly, RAF. On 5 January Denikin had also awarded Reilly the medal of St Anna.

53. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 22 January 1919 ( Reilly Papers CX 2616).

54. Ibid., 26 January 1919.

55. Ace of Spies, Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.87. Lockhart refers to the street as Alexander III Boulevard. While indeed named after the former Tsar, city directories and street maps indicate that it was actually called Alexandrovsky Prospect. After Ukraine became a Soviet Republic the street was renamed Prospect Mira. When Ukraine became an independent nation following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the street once again became Alexandrovsky Prospect.

56. Novorossiyski address-calendar published by the Office of the Novorossiyski and Bessarabski Governor-General for 1871–74 and the address calendar of the Odessa City Governor’s Office for 1877–80 and 1881–96.

57. Fond P-8085, Inventory 1, File 26, State Archives of Odessa Region.

58. Diary of Sidney Reilly, 4 February 1919 ( Reilly Papers CX 2616).

59. Memorandum by G.E. Pennington, dated 20 March 1919 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103). The Brixton Hill address was that of John O’Sullivan, a friend of the Callaghan family.

60. Letter from Margaret Reilly to Capt. Spencer, dated 4 February 1919 ( Reilly Papers CX 2616). Capt. Spencer was a correspondence name. As Sir Paul Dukes recalled ‘I soon discovered that at least half a dozen persons either in the roof-labyrinth [Dukes’ colloquialism for SIS headquarters at 2 Whitehall Place] and associated offices were all called by that same name!’ The Story of ST25, Sir Paul Dukes, p.35.