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Reilly by Robin Bruce Lockhart7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are obvious contemporary overtones in the gamesmanship and double-dealing between the Soviet Russians and the West. Events that brought Reilly, at times a full MI6 officer, to that final day, imprisoned by the nascent Soviet intelligence services-and their need to kill him-are one aspect that makes his story worth telling again. The one thing apparently true but not absolutely confirmed was that he was shot and killed in a park in Moscow by a Bolshevik executioner on November 5, 1925. “He may have been born in Odessa, Ukraine-as the Soviets later determined-or in nearby Kherson, or in Russian-ruled Poland at Bendzin (near Auschwitz) or Pruzhany, on or around Ma(though other versions have it that he came into this world in 1872).” You get the idea. A man named Reilly? Jewish Lives? Indeed, Reilly was born Rosenblum, perhaps his given name was Sigmund or Shlomo or Zalman or Salomon, Morris tells us. Sidney Reilly (Unattributed photo from History Press UK)īenny Morris has written this latest biography, Sidney Reilly: Master Spy, as part of a series from Yale University, Jewish Lives. ![]()
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