Ace of Spies (46 page)

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).

E
LEVEN
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F
INAL
C
URTAIN

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.

30. Ibid.

31. Letter from Dermot Morrah to Frank Sheed, 7 October 1956 (Sheed and Ward Family Papers, Box 12, Folder 12, University of Notre Dame Archives, Indiana, USA).

32. Letter from Caryll Houselander to Wilfred Sheed, 12 October 1950 (Sheed and Ward Family Papers, Box 12, Folder 12, University of Notre Dame Archives, Indiana, USA).

33. Caryll Houselander: That Divine Eccentric, Maisie Ward, p.61.

34. 
The Diaries of Robert Bruce Lockhart,
Kenneth Young (ed.), p.183.

35. Letter from Winston Churchill to Stewart Menzies, 29 October 1920, CHAR 16/49, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

36. Parmi les maitres rouges by Georgi Solomon (Paris, 1930), p248-250.

37. Memorandum from Naval Intelligence Division to SIS, 3 September 1920 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

38. Memorandum from C to Naval Intelligence Division, 7 September 1920 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616)

39. Memorandum from Naval Intelligence Division to SIS, 10 September 1920 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

40. Ibid., handwritten note by C at foot of memorandum.

41. Memorandum dated 20 October 1920 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

42. Telegram No. 983, dated 29 October 1920 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

43. Memorandum from Section V to Production, 3 November 1920 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

44. Telegram from Section G2 to Sidney Reilly, 8 November 1920 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

45. ‘Trust' File No. 302330, Vol. 37 (Archive of the Federal Security Service, Moscow).

46. 
New York Times,
1 May 1921, p.8.

47. Box 6, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection (Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California).

48. Letter from H.F. Pougher to Air Board, received by SIS 12 October 1921 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

49. Ibid. Note appended to foot of letter by Sidney Reilly.

50. Letter from Sidney Reilly to SIS, 19 September 1921 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

51. Letter from Sir Eyre Crowe (permanent under-secretary, Foreign Office) to Lord Curzon (Foreign Secretary), 28 December 1921 (Curzon Papers), reproduced in Winston S. Churchill, Vol. IV. 1917–1922, Martin Gilbert, companion volume III, pp.1703–05).

52. Ibid.

53. Letter from Sidney Reilly to SIS, 23 January 1922 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

54. From SIS (Vienna), 1 February 1922 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

55. From G7 (London) to SIS New York, 24 July 1923 (
Reilly Papers
CX 2616).

T
WELVE
–
A
C
HANGE OF
B
AIT

1.   Letter from Edward Spears to Robin Bruce Lockhart, 2 January 1967, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection, Box 6, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California.

2.   Diary of Edward Spears, 1 April 1921 (Spears MSS SPRS 2/4 Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).

3.   
Diaries of Robert Bruce Lockhart,
Kenneth Young (ed.), p.17.

4.   Diary of Edward Spears, 17 July 1921 (Spears MSS SPRS 2/4 Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).

5.   Herbert Guedalla, a pre-war director of the Russo-English Bank. As a director of the Imperial and Foreign Company, along with Edward Spears, he was also involved in Reilly/Spears Czech Radium deal.

6.   Lt-Col. Robert Guy (1878–1927), a war-time acquaintance of Spears (see
Who Was Who, 1916–1928
)

7.   Reilly had recently moved from 11 Park Place, St James's, to Flat D3, the Albany, Piccadilly, an exclusive London address popular with peers, members of the government and upper-class society generally.

8.   Reilly always liked to make out that he was a close confidant of Churchill's. While close to Sir Archibald Sinclair, it is most unlikely that Reilly was ever more than the briefest of acquaintances with Churchill. In Churchill's entire correspondence for the years 1919–25 there are but two letters written to Reilly, both in response to letters from Reilly. Both address him very formally as Mr Reilly. Anyone who was close or on personal terms with Churchill would have been addressed as ‘My dear Sinclair' or ‘Dear Spears', not as ‘Dear Mr'.

9.   Diary of Edward Spears, 17 August 1921 (Spears MSS SPRS 2/4 Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).

10. Ibid., 21–25 October 1921.

11. Ibid., 25 October 1921.

12. Ibid., 23 November 1921.

13. Diary of Edward Spears, 20 April 1922 (Spears MSS SPRS 2/5 Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).

14. Ibid., 30 June 1922.

15. 
The Tatler,
No. 905, 30 October 1918, p.133.

16. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Boris Savinkov, dated 7 May 1923, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow (Fond R-5831, Inventory 1, File 177).

17. Entry 462, Register of Births in the Registration District of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster, 4 May 1862. Isobel Burton died at the age of eighty-six (Entry 463, Register of Deaths in the Sub-district of Hythe in the Registration District of Folkestone in the County of Kent, 20 June 1948).

18. Letter to British Consulate, Hamburg, from Isabel Burton, 5 June 1888 (A6 Vol 33, Alphabetisches Register weiblicher Fremder 1868–1890).

19. Franz Kurt Burton, born 5 July 1888, Hamburg, Germany (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Standesamt).

20. Nelly Louise Burton, born 20 January 1891, Hamburg, Germany (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Standesamt).

21. ‘Card File of inhabitants who left or died between 1892 and 1925' (K44320, Fotoarchiv, Hamburg).

22. No record of Alice Burton's birth has been found in Britain. She may have been born on the continent or registered in Britain under a name other than Burton. On her Marriage Certificate (Entry 124, Register of Marriages in the Registration District of St George Hanover Square in the County of London, 18 January 1918) column 7 – ‘Father's name and Surname' has been left blank. Unusually, column 6 of her Death Certificate – ‘Date and place of birth' (Entry 87, Register of Deaths in the Registration District of Westminster in the City of Westminster, 5 February 1972) simply states ‘about 1894'

23. Programme of show ‘Cache ton nu', 20 April 1914 (Ro 15743, Arsenal Library, Paris).

24. ‘Pepa' is a shortened version of Josephina and ‘ita' is a diminutive form, so Pepita literally means ‘small Josephina'. Bobadilla is a town in the province of Jaen in the south of Spain and derives from the Arabic Boab'dil. Nelly first adopted the stage name Bobadilla in the summer of 1914. In 1916 her mother Isobel was interviewed by MI5, who were interested in her liaison with a Dutch merchant seaman. In a statement she explained that Pete Reyers was her intended second husband and that her first husband's name was Bobadilla. She never married Reyers and in fact never married anyone any time during her life. When she died in 1948 her death certificate claimed she was the widow of ‘Frank Burton'.

25. 
The Sketch,
29 November 1916, p.6.

26. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, memorandum to H. Hunnewell and A. Smith, 6 September 1918.

27. 1924 Electoral Register, City of Westminster, Knightsbridge St George's Ward.