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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.

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.

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.

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.

8. ‘The Complete Diary of Donald Im Thurn’ is reproduced in Appendix A of ‘The Zinoviev Letter: A Political Intrigue’ by Lewis Chester, Stephen Fay and Hugo Young. The diary was apparently found among the papers of Im Thurn’s friend Guy Kindersley, the Conservative MP for Hitchin, who died in 1956.

9. Ibid., and Sidney Reilly – The True Story, Michael Kettle, p.122/123.

10. Ibid.

11. Letters reproduced in Britain’s Master Spy – The Adventures of Sidney Reilly, p.178/182.

12. Sidney and Pepita sailed from Cherbourg aboard the White Star Line’s SS Olympic (Titantic ’s sister ship) on 15th October 1924 bound for New York (US Immigration Records, Vol. 8155, p.5, 21 October 1924). Michael Kettle places their departure for New York after 25 October, the day the letter was exposed in the Daily Mail (Sidney Reilly – The True Story, p.128).

13. A Most Extraordinary and Mysterious Business: The Zinoviev Letter of 1924, Gill Bennett, p.45.

14. Ibid.

15. The Guardian, 23 June 2000, p.5.

16. Ibid.

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