Sidney Reilly, born in
Odessa as Georgy Rosenblum in 1870 –
several facts and life moments of
"Ace of Spies" who exported and imported spying services for at least
4 countries - United Kingdom, Germany,
Japan, Russian Empire.
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Sidney George Reilly, commonly known
as the so-called 'Ace of Spies', was a secret agent of the British Secret
Service Bureau, the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS). He is alleged
to have spied for at least four different powers. Reilly's fame was created
during the 1920s, in part by his friend, the British diplomat and journalist Sir
Robert Bruce Lockhart, who publicized their thwarted operation to
overthrow the Bolshevik regime in 1918. The London
Evening Standard published in
May 1931 a
serial, headlined "Master Spy", imparting his exploits. Later Ian Fleming used Reilly as
a model for James Bond. Today many
historians consider Reilly to have been the first 20th-century
"super-spy". Much of what is thought to be known about him could be
false, however, as Reilly was a master of deception and most of his life is
shrouded in legend.
Origins and youth
The origins, identities and activities of
Sidney Reilly have befuddled researchers and intelligence agencies for more
than 100 years, and much of his purported life and many of his notorious
exploits should be cautiously examined. Reilly himself told several versions of
his origins to confuse and mislead investigators: he claimed to be the son of
an Irish merchant seaman, an Irish clergyman, and an aristocratic landowner and
habitué of the Imperial court of Tsar
Alexander III of Russia. According to the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya, he was born Zigmund
Markovich Rozenblum (Rosenblum) on 24 March 1874 in Odessa, then a Black Sea port of the Russian
Empire. His father, Mark, was a stockbroker, and shipping agent, and his
mother came from an impoverished noble family.
Other sources say that Reilly was born Georgy
Rosenblum in Odessa
on 24 March 1873 or 1874. However, in Ace
of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly (p. 28), Andrew Cook
states that Reilly was born on 24 March 1873 in the Jewish Kherson gubernia of Tsarist Russia, as Salomon
(Shlomo) Rosenblum, and that he was the illegitimate son of Polina (or
"Perla"), his acknowledged mother, and Dr Mikhail Abramovich
Rosenblum, the trusted first cousin of Reilly's putative father, Grigory
(Hersh) Rosenblum. There is also speculation that he was the son of
a merchant marine captain and the above-mentioned mother.
Early life
In 1892 the Imperial Russian Secret Police arrested Georgi
Rosenblum for being a messenger for a revolutionary group, the Friends of Enlightenment, as stated by
Georgi Rosenblum himself. Trust him :)
After he was released Grigory, his assumed
father, told him that his mother was dead and that his biological father was
her Jewish doctor Mikhail A. Rosenblum. Renaming himself Sigmund Rosenblum, he
faked his death in Odessa Harbour and stowed away aboard a British ship
bound for South America, Brazil …
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