Andrew Cook - Ace of Spies

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Hugh Thomas during his tenure as Vicar of Old Newton, Suffolk (c.1860).

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News of Thomas ’s sudden death was very quickly picked up by the local press.

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Sigmund Rosenblum gave the name of solicitor L.J. Sandford to vouch for his application to be allowed to research into medieval art at the British Museum.

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Rosenblum & Company was to all intents and purposes a patent medicine racket set up in 1896.

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Sigmund Rosenblum married Margaret Thomas five months after her husband ’s sudden death.

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The coat of arms on Rosenblum ’s letter-head incorporated the doubleheaded Russian eagle and shamelessly appropriated the Thomas family motto ‘no faith in the world ’.

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Advertisement in Vozdukhoplavatel announcing the opening of the Krylia Aerodrome in September 1910; another Reilly project financed by other people ’s money.

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Reilly ’s marriage on 16 February 1915 almost certainly saved him from arrest by the New York Police Department.

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A Russian propaganda leaflet issued to Allied troops in Murmansk, naming Reilly as a conspirator in the plot to ‘overthrow the Russian Revolution ’.

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The key to the SIS dictionary code used by Reilly and Hill to communicate with each other while in hiding.

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The only true statement Reilly made about himself in the Marriage Register was his address; everything else from his name, age, former rank and the status of his father, was a complete fabrication.

Andrew Cook worked for many years as a foreign affairs and defence specialist, and was aide to George Robertson (former Secretary of State for Defence, now Lord Robertson of Port Ellen and Secretary General of NATO) and John Spellar (former Minister of State for the Armed Forces). The contacts he made enabled the author to navigate and gain access to classified intelligence services archives. During his ten years researching this book, he was only the fifth historian to be given special permission, under the 1992 ‘Waldegrave Initiative’ by the Cabinet Office, to examine closed MI6 documents that will never be released, documents not seen by any previous biographer of Reilly. Since working directly as a foreign affairs and defence specialist, Andrew Cook has worked as a professional historian in colleges and universities. He is a regular contributor on espionage history to The Guardian, The Times and BBC History Magazine and has appeared on national radio and television. His next book, M: MI5’s First Spymaster , will be published by Tempus. The author’s Sidney Reilly website is www.sidneyreilly.com. He lives in Bedfordshire.