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.
61. Telegram CX 066117, sent from Odessa 1.20 p.m. 19 February 1919, received in London 1.30 p.m. 22 February 1919 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
62. Reilly’s Despatch No. 13, Odessa, 18 February 1919 (PRP FO 371/3978).
63. Reilly’s Despatch No. 15, Odessa, 21 February 1919 (PRO FO 371/3978).
64. Selby’s comment made on 5 March 1919 is found on the Foreign Office covering note to Reilly’s Despatches Nos 1–12 (PRO FO 371/3962).
65. Dreaded Hour, George Hill, p.95. The ‘Council of Ambassadors’ was composed of Russian Ambassadors accredited to European capitals prior to the Bolshevik Revolution. The committee had been initiated by anti-Bolsheviks in order to represent Russia’s national interests at the Peace Conference.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid., pp.99–100.
68. Ibid., p.102.
69. Ibid.
70. Reilly and Hill were not the only ones to claim the honour of passing this information to Wickham Steed. Gordon Auchinloss, the son-in-law of American delegation member Col. Edward House, was one of a number to claim responsibility. Iron Maze, Gordon Brook-Shepherd, note 8, p.357.
71. Daily Mail, 26 March 1919, p.1. William Bullitt’s account of his meeting with Lloyd George is to be found in his statement to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Official Report 1919, p.1279).
ELEVEN – FINAL CURTAIN
1. Reilly sailed from Southampton on 15 April aboard the White Star Line’s SS Olympic, arriving in Halifax on 19 April 1919. (US Immigration, M1464 #365 Vol. 479).
2. US border crossing reference NYPL Z1637, M1461 #326.
3. The St Regis was Reilly’s favourite New York Hotel. Vladimir Krymov recalls meeting Reilly in New York in 1917, by which time ‘he was occupying an entire suite’ at the St Regis. Portraits of Interesting People, Vladimir Krymov, p.73.
4. Reilly had known Jaroszynsky in pre-war St Petersburg. According to the memorandum ‘Character Sketch of Karol Jaroszynsky’ by John Picton Bagge, the forty-year-old Russian Pole was the son of a landowner from Kiev who left him ‘a fortune of 3 or 4 million roubles’. He used his wealth to found the University of Lublin and to buy up twenty-two sugar factories and six major banks. Bagge compared him to Cecil Rhodes and paid tribute to ‘his genius for buying up banks and enterprises’ (CHAR 16/28/45, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
5. Telegram 10 May 1919, Sidney Reilly to John Picton Bagge, Foreign Office, CXC 416 (PRO FO 371/4019).
6. SS Baltic ‘inward’ passenger list (PROBT 26/653 & 654).
7. RAF Service Record of 2nd Lt Sidney Reilly (PRO Pi 21220).
8. Intelligence requirements were directed to the Production Section. It was then responsible for ‘producing’ the required intelligence by assigning appropriate personnel.
9. Memorandum dated 3 October 1919 from Maj. D.J.F Morton to Col. S. Menzies (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
10. Memorandum dated 16 October 1919 from Col. S. Menzies to Maj. D.J.F. Morton (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
11. Secrets of Espionage: Tales of the Secret Service, Winfried Ludecke, p.105.
12. Britain’s Master Spy – The Adventures of Sidney Reilly, frontispiece.
13. Velvet and Vinegar, Norman G. Thwaites, p.181.
14. Memorandum from Sidney Reilly to John Picton Bagge, 10 October 1919 (CHAR 16/28/18 & 19, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
15. The Russian Problem (CHAR 16/28/170-189, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
16. Note from Sir Archibald Sinclair to Winston Churchill, 15 December 1919 (CHAR 16/28/150, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
17. Ibid.
18. G3/147 London to Capt. W. Field Robinson, 30 January 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
19. Ibid., attached report.
20. Letter from Sidney Reilly to C, 23 March 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
21. Ibid.
22. Memorandum from Section H to C, 5 March 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
23. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Robert Nathan, 13 March 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
24. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Robert Nathan, 14 March 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
25. Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair to Winston Churchill, 24 June 1920 (CHAR 16/57/17, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
26. US Immigration, Port of New York, Volume 6489, 13 June 1920.
27. Entry No. 328, Register of Births in the Sub-district of Batheaston in the Registration District of Bath in the County of Somerset, Frances Caryll Houselander, 29 September 1901.
28. Caryll Houselander: That Divine Eccentric, Maisie Ward (Sheed and Ward, 1962), pp.72–73.
29. A Rocking Horse Catholic, Caryll Houselander (Sheed and Ward, 1955), pp.136–37.