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Sidney Reilly - the "Ace of Spies" whose exploits supposedly provided inspiration for Ian Flemings' James Bond is now considered to be more of a confidence trickster, murderer and serial womaniser than a British hero. Much of Reilly's dubious past was known to the intelligence agencies for whom he worked.

Reilly, whose real name was Shlomo Rosenblum, was born in 1873 in what is now the Ukraine. He left a trail of false identities and devious frauds that made him precisely the type of person SIS (the forerunner of MI6) needed as an agent in its battle against Bolshevism. He later claimed to have been born in Ireland. Codenamed ST1 his agent number was later adapted by Ian Fleming in his Bond thrillers as 007.

His Russian contacts during the first world war made him invaluable. Reilly organised a counter-coup against Lenin in September 1918, a plot penetrated by the Bolshevik secret police. Narrowly avoiding capture he fled his home half an hour before Cheka officers arrived. After the uprising's failure Reilly was condemned to death by the Soviets but escaped capture and returned to London.

Reilly was ultimately tricked into returning to Moscow, against advice from London, where he was arrested, taken to the Lubyanka and repeatedly interrogated before finally being shot in the back, during a walk in the Sokolniki woods outside Moscow, at the direct instruction of Stalin in October 1925.

Note - the alert amongst you might notice that although Reilly died in 1925, well before the second world war, the sub depicted is a 1945 U-boat and the car is a 1950's Riley RMB Saloon (best I could find in SketchUp Warehouse!)

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Description
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_R…

Sidney Reilly - the "Ace of Spies" whose exploits supposedly provided inspiration for Ian Flemings' James Bond is now considered to be more of a confidence trickster, murderer and serial womaniser than a British hero. Much of Reilly's dubious past was known to the intelligence agencies for whom he worked.

Reilly, whose real name was Shlomo Rosenblum, was born in 1873 in what is now the Ukraine. He left a trail of false identities and devious frauds that made him precisely the type of person SIS (the forerunner of MI6) needed as an agent in its battle against Bolshevism. He later claimed to have been born in Ireland. Codenamed ST1 his agent number was later adapted by Ian Fleming in his Bond thrillers as 007.

His Russian contacts during the first world war made him invaluable. Reilly organised a counter-coup against Lenin in September 1918, a plot penetrated by the Bolshevik secret police. Narrowly avoiding capture he fled his home half an hour before Cheka officers arrived. After the uprising's failure Reilly was condemned to death by the Soviets but escaped capture and returned to London.

Reilly was ultimately tricked into returning to Moscow, against advice from London, where he was arrested, taken to the Lubyanka and repeatedly interrogated before finally being shot in the back, during a walk in the Sokolniki woods outside Moscow, at the direct instruction of Stalin in October 1925.

Note - the alert amongst you might notice that although Reilly died in 1925, well before the second world war, the sub depicted is a 1945 U-boat and the car is a 1950's Riley RMB Saloon (best I could find in SketchUp Warehouse!)

SketchUp / Vue 2015 / Photoshop