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).
24. Ibid. (attached to letter).
25. Ibid. (attached to letter).
26. Memorandum from SIS to MI5, dated 30 January 1918 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103).
27. Memorandum from MI5 to SIS, dated 2 February 1918 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103).
28. Entry No. 475, Register of Deaths in the Registration District of Wandsworth, in the Sub-district of South West Battersea, 1 February 1918.
29. Telegram No. 206 of 28 February 1918, from C to SIS New York.
30. Telegram CX 021744, CMX 188, received London 10.00 a.m. 4 March 1918 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
31. Observation reports dated 6–9 March 1918 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103).
32. Report dated 9 March 1918 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103).
33. Telegram CX 023100, CMX 201, received London 2.20 p.m. 14 March 1918 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
34. 2 Whitehall Court (today part of the Royal Horseguards Hotel) was designed by the architects Archer and Green and built in 1884. Conveniently situated opposite the War Office, it was, to all intents and purposes, a faceless apartment block. C had commandeered the top floor and rented it under the name of Capt. Spencer (Kelly’s Post Office Directory 1918).
35. Red Dusk and the Morrow, Sir Paul Dukes (Williams and Norgate, 1923), p.9. In Ace of Spies, p.98, Robin Bruce Lockhart states that ‘when Dukes was summoned for his first interview with the Secret Service chief, Reilly was present at the meeting and endorsed Cumming’s selection’. However, it is clear from Dukes’ own account that the interview took place in July 1918 when Reilly was in Russia (The Story of ST25, Sir Paul Dukes, Cassell, 1938, pp.28–29.
36. Diary of Mansfield Cumming – 15 March 1918.
37. Telegram CX 023996, CXM 212, received London 2.25 p.m. 21 March 1918 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
38. Diary of Mansfield Cumming – 22 March 1918.
39. Memorandum from MI5 to Irish Command, dated 22 March 1918 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103).
40. Memorandum from Irish Command to MI5, dated 31 March 1918 (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103).
41. The prefix ST refers to the SIS station through which Reilly was reporting – Stockholm.
NINE – THE REILLY PLOT
1. Telegram CXM 159, dated 29 March 1918 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
2. Letter from Stephen Alley to Robin Bruce Lockhart, dated 13 May 1966, Box 6, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California.
3. Telegram dated 22 March 1918, 5.25 p.m. (Sidney Reilly’s MI5 File PF 864103/V1).
4. The fact that C also refers to Reilly as ‘Reilli’ in his telegram CXM 159 of 29 March 1918 strongly suggests that this misspelling is intentional.
5. Ibid., note 34.
6. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, Report dated 16 September 1918, p.1, from Chief Yeoman Bond to H. Hunnewell and A. Smith.
7. Gen. Edward Spears recalled Reilly telling him of ‘a valuable collection of coins and Napoleonic relics’ he wanted to retrieve. It is also apparent from Spears’ letter that some or all of this collection was still in Russia in 1925 (letter to Robin Bruce Lockhart dated 2 January 1967, Box 6, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection, Hoover Institution Archive, Stanford, California.
8. Telegram CX 027753, dated 16 April 1918 (Reilly papers CX 2616).
9. Ibid.
10. Memoirs of a British Agent, Robert Bruce Lockhart (p.276).
11. Ibid.
12. The following month Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour cabled Lockhart castigating his judgement and advice: ‘You have at different times advised against Allied intervention in any form; against it by the Japanese alone; against it with Japanese assistance; against it at Vladivostock; in favour of it at Murmansk; in favour of it with an invitation; in favour of it without an invitation since it was really desired by the Bolsheviks; in favour of it without invitation whether the Bolsheviks desired it or not’. ‘Lockhart Plot or Dzerzhinskii Plot?’, R.K. Debo, pp.426–427.
13. Sidney Reilly – The True Story, Michael Kettle, p.24; Ace of Spies, Robin Bruce Lockhart, pp.67–68; Master Spy, Edward Van Der Rhoer, pp.24–25.
14. Telegram CX 013592, sent from Moscow on 12 May 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669).
15. Telegram CX 035402, sent from Moscow on 29 May 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669).
16. Ibid.
17. Telegram CX 035176, sent from Moscow, 3 June 1918 (PRO WO 32/5669).
18. Dagmara Genrikhovna Karozus was not, as suggested by previous writers, a Russian. She was in fact German, and as such had been on Department of Police files since 1914 (Fond 102, 6 deloproizvodstvo, opis 174, delo 69, tom 30, listy 37-40, 1914, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow).
19. Personal file of Elizaveta Emilyevna Otten, Inventory 6, edinitsa khranenija 120, Obraztsov State Academic Theatre, Moscow.
20. Account of the trial proceedings of the Supreme Tribunal, Moscow, of 29 November 1918, as reported in Izvestia, 1 December 1918.
21. Vladimir Grigoryevich Orlov (1882-1941), a former counter-intelligence officer in the First World War, who served in the Criminal Department of the Cheka in Petrograd. To conceal his real identity he adopted the name Boleslav Orlinsky. In September 1918 he fled to Finland and later served on Denikin’s counter-intelligence staff in the Civil War. In 1920 he settled in Germany where he continued his fight against the Bolsheviks by publishing compromising material about them in the western press. He was thought to be the prime suspect in connection with the forged Zinoviev letter, although nothing was ever proven. He was shot by the Gestapo in 1941 for anti-Nazi activity.
22. Master Spy, Edward Van Der Rhoer, p.224ff; History of the Russian Secret Service, Richard Deacon, p.264ff; Reilly – The First Man, Robin Bruce Lockhart, p.55; ‘The Terrorist and the Master Spy: The Political Partnership of Boris Savinkov and Sidney Reilly, 1918–25’, Richard Spence, Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 4, No. 1, June 1991, p.120ff.