Spies and Commissars

28. A. A. Ioffe to V. I. Lenin, May 1918 in ibid., p. 60.

29. A. A. Ioffe, ‘N. Lenin i nasha vneshnyaya politika’ (dated 20 October 1927), APRF, f. 31, op. 1, d. 4, p. 212.

30. N. Ioffe, Moi otets Adol’f Abramovich Ioffe, p. 38. Ioffe could not resist asking Dzerzhinski why the Cheka had failed to prevent the attempt on Lenin’s life.

31. S. McMeekin, History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks, pp. 97–101.

32. A. A. Ioffe to V. I. Lenin, May 1918 in N. Ioffe, Moi otets Adol’f Abramovich Ioffe, p. 61.

33. A. A. Ioffe to the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, copied to Lenin, Trotsky, Sverdlov and Zinoviev, June 1918 in ibid., p. 67.

34. B. Pearce, How Haig Saved Lenin, p. 57.

35. G. V. Chicherin, Vneshnyaya politika Sovetskoi Rossii za dva goda, p. 5; B. Pearce, How Haig Saved Lenin, p. 71.

36. G. V. Chicherin, Vneshnyaya politika Sovetskoi Rossii za dva goda, pp. 18– 19.

37. B. Pearce, How Haig Saved Lenin, p. 49.

38. Ibid., p. 61.

39. V. I. Lenin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. 50, p. 108.

40. B. Pearce, How Haig Saved Lenin, p. 67.

41. Pravda, 17 August 1918.

42. V. I. Lenin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. 37, p. 75.

43. B. Pearce, How Haig Saved Lenin, p. 68.

44. Hughes telegraph conversation between G. V. Chicherin and Kh. G. Rakovskii, 5 October 1918: P. N. Vrangel Collection (HIA), box 35, folder 10.

45. L. D. Trotskii to V. I. Lenin, 17 August 1918: RGVA, f. 33987, op. 1, d. 23.

14. Subverting Russia

1. Robin Bruce Lockhart, ‘Notes on Sidney Reilly: Information Provided by George Hill’, p. 7: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 11, folder 1. See also A. Cook, On His Majesty’s Secret Service: Sidney Reilly — Codename ST1, chs 2–7.

2. Robin Bruce Lockhart, ‘Notes on Sidney Reilly: Information Provided by George Hill’, p. 5: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 11, folder 1.

3. G. A. Hill, Dreaded Hour, p. 102.

4. A. Cook, On His Majesty’s Secret Service: Sidney Reilly — Codename ST1, pp. 107–18.

5. Ibid., pp. 107–8, 127–9, 131 and 133.

6. E. L. Spears to R. N. Bruce Lockhart, 2 January 1967: Robert Bruce Lockhart (HIA), box 2, folder 10; J. Alley to Robin Bruce Lockhart, 13 May 1966: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 2.

7. Ibid.; G. A. Hill, Go Spy the Land, p. 201.

8. Letter (in French, on Credit Lyonnais notepaper) by unknown person to unknown addressee, summer 1918(?), p. 2: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), folder: Robin Bruce Lockhart, ‘Reilly: Russian Revolution, Etc.: Sources: Sir Edward Spears’.

9. Ibid. See also G. A. Hill’s answers to Robin Bruce Lockhart’s questionnaire: ibid., ‘Reilly: Russian Revolution, Etc.: Sources: Others: 1921–1997’.

10. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, notebooks (1938–1945): Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 4, folder 3.

11. R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Petrograd), 10 March 1918: Milner Papers, dep. 364, fol. 87.

12. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, notebooks (1938–1945): Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 4, folder 3.

13. T. Alexander, An Estonian Childhood, pp. 44–6.

14. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, notebooks (apparently 1938–1945): Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 4, folder 3.

15. Ibid.

16. Moura’s daughter Tanya made the deduction about the pregnancy from letters written at the time by Moura: T. Alexander, An Estonian Childhood, pp. 44–6.

17. See here.

18. Ya. Peters, ‘Delo Lokkarta’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 495. On the Sheremetev Lane apartment see R. Polonsky, Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History, pp. 43–9.

19. R. N. Bruce Lockhart, ‘Notes on Sidney Reilly. Information Provided by George Hill’: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers, box 11, folder 1, p. 1.

20. GARF, f. 102, op. 174, d. 69 (vol. 30: 1914), pp. 37–40. My thanks to Andrew Cook for sharing this with me.

21. Translation of Starzhevskaya petition to the Red Cross for Aid to Political Prisoners, 11 November 1918, GARF R8419, op. 1, d. 356, pp. 355–6: Andrew Cook’s papers.

22. Ya. Peters, ‘Delo Lokkarta’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 512.

23. Ibid.

24. ‘Pokazaniya M. V. Fride’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 506; translation of Maria Fride’s Red Cross questionnaire, 30 December 1918, GARF R8419, op. 1, d. 264, p. 35 (double- sided): thanks again to Andrew Cook.

25. ‘Pervoe pokazanie A. V. Fride’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 502.

26. Washington Post, 2 March 1918.

27. V. Kingisepp, ‘Dobavochnye pokazaniya ot K. D. Kalamatiano’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, pp. 517–18.

28. Ya. Peters, ‘Delo Lokkarta’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 517.

29. K. D. Kalamatiano, ‘Rabota poslednikh 6–8 mesyatsev’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 519.

30. Ibid., p. 115.

31. ‘Tret’e pokazanie A. V. Fride’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 504.

32. Ibid. (A. V. Fride); ‘Pokazaniya M. V. Fride’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 506; K. D. Kalamatiano, ‘Litsa, privlechennye po delu’, in Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov, p. 520. See also D. S. Foglesong, America’s Secret War against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917–1920, p. 114.

33. R. H. Bruce Lockhart’s deciphered report, 26 May 1918: National Archvies, FO 371/3332/9748, p. 424; B. V. Savinkov’s testimony in ‘Sudebnoe razbiratel’stvo’, Pravda, 30 August 1924, pp. 4– 5.

34. G. A. Hill, Go Spy the Land, pp. 200–1.

35. New York Evening Post, 16–18 September 1918; New York Times, 22 September 1918 and 22 February 1919.

36. G. Creel (Chairman), The German–Bolshevik Conspiracy (The Committee on Public Information: New York, 1918), pp. 29–30.

37. R. H. Bruce Lockhart report (Moscow), 11 April 1918: Milner Papers, dep. 364, fols 200–1.

38. R. H. Bruce Lockhart report (Moscow), 7 May 1918: ibid., fol. 271.