A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma: Examining Sidney Reilly Público
Lape, Cody Russell (2010)
Abstract
Abstract
A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma: Examining Sidney Reilly
By Cody Lape
Although Sidney Reilly (1874-1925?) was working for British Secret
Intelligence Services within Imperial Russia and, after the
Revolution, within the Russian Communist state, not much is known
about his days in espionage before he went to the Soviet Union in
1918. In 1898 or shortly thereafter he joined the British Secret
Intelligence Services, but he refused to work actively against
Russia, since he was a native of the Russian Empire. The British
still needed his services, and an arrangement was made between
Reilly and the services. In the years leading up to the First World
War he was sent to Revel, Germany, to gather intelligence on German
naval developments so that the British Empire would not be
surprised in the event of war breaking out. According to archival
materials, his mission there was successful, but not flawless - he
was able to get the blueprints for new German naval works, but due
to tight time constraints he was unable to trace them. These facts
are all the clear background, but to understand this figure one
must understand his motives for what he did, and what he hoped to
accomplish. Many personal revelations to this end came about during
his account of the Lockhart Plot in the summer of 1918, but it is
his association with the Trust which was to be Sidney Reilly's end,
was an enigmatic organization which is to this day still not
understood and likely never will be. Because of this, there are
precious few resources to implement when seeking information about
the Trust, and even fewer of those are reliable. However, it is
still necessary to present the structure and development of the
Trust still remains a great enigma. This thesis looks at the
conflict of the accounts that surround his memory and offers a
point of view which may unite the contradictory pieces of the
puzzle.
Table of Contents
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….1
Chapter One: The "Lockhart" Plot………………………………………………….. 7
The Lettish Rifleman Conspiracy…………………………………………….. 11
Chapter Two: The Trust Itself………………………………………………………. 32
Opperput's Confession…………………………………….………………….. 38
Chapter Three: Reilly, Savinkov, and the Trust…………………………………… 47
The Green Movement…………………………………………………………. 47
Sidney Reilly's Financial Problems…………….…………………………….. 53
Savinkov and Reilly Return to Russia…………………....……….…………… 58
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................74
Bibliography………………………………………………………………………….. .79
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