Britain's Master Spy: The Adventures of Sidney ReillyReilly, who, despite his name, was Russian, was supposedly shot dead by Bolshevik border guards in October 1925 as he tried to cross the Finnish border into Russia. But an MI6 report released in 2002 describes how he was, in fact, shot in the back at Stalin's insistence after days of being interrogated in the Lubyanka, the Moscow headquarters of the GPU, Stalin's secret police. Reilly, who worked for MI6 as Agent ST-1, had been sentenced to death by the Bolsheviks in absentia in 1918 for his involvement in the Lockhart Plot aimed at overthrowing the Bolshevik leaders. |
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