Great spies.Part 3-Sydney Reilly

in #history7 years ago

Sidney Reilly was a native of Odessa and inherited his father's name Rosenblum.His parents called him Solomon.
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In his youth, because of the family scandal,he went to South America, then moved to Europe.He was able to get a good education and 24 years became a British intelligence officer,taking the name of his wife, the Irish-Margaret Reilly.
Performing special tasks in the middle East and the Caucasus.At 32 he became an assistant to the British naval attache in St. Petersburg.
He was involved in questionable financial transactions,engaged in Antiques,was fond of aviation and ,of course,espionage and political intrigues.After the Bolsheviks came to power, Reilly organized a conspiracy with the participation of the red Latvian Riflemen,who were to eliminate Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders.
In fact, the Latvians acted with the sanction of the head of the CCP Dzerzhinsky, and Reilly barely managed to carry his feet.Subsequently, the security officers were able to lure him to the USSR to get acquainted with them created a fictitious monarchical organization,arrested and,squeezing out everything that is possible,shot.
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