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The Story Of British Spy In Russia
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way. He then gave us the names of Krassin,
Tchicherin, Radek, Rakovsh and Bukharin and
perhaps still others. He was particularly inter-
ested in getting rid of Krassn.
eve commenced with the practical work, and
went to Berlin with Savinkov and Derental.
Here we went straight from the station to the
house of the monarchist secret agent Orlov who
was the chairman Of the Wrangel secret service
in Berlin. He was closely connected with and
completely dependent upon the British secret
agent Reilly. Orov assured us that as far as
weapons, passports, photographs and descrip-
tions of the Soviet representatives were con-
cerned he could do everything necessary. He
had in his possession various tins with poison,
bombs, etc. Savinkov ordered five revolvers and
photographs and descriptions Of Krasin, Tchit
cherin, Radek and Bukharin.
eve discovered the stopping place of the Sow
let delegation to Genoa and made preparations to
carry out an attempt upon its members. l
learned in Berlin that Tchitcherin would also
come. AS I had not sufficient time to get into
touch with my co-operators. l went alone
to the station, but I found so many police
there that | left the station I got in
touch with my co-operators with view to car
rying out an attempt upon the members of the
delegation which included Litvnov, when it set
off. We knew that special train with saloon
Wagon was waiting at Potsdamer Railway Sta
tion and we succeeded in gaining access to the
platform which was closed to the general pub
lie. All my companions had false passports and
sufficient money in of flight. 1t turned out
that only less important members of the delega-
ton were in the saloon-waggon of the train
and that the chief members of the delegation
attending dinner at the German Foreign
Office, and so the train left without them. But
Tchtcherin and the other members of the dele
cation reached the train by automobile at
other station After the delegation departed
for Genoa, l remained with my group in Berlin
and we intended to carry out terrorist attempts
upon the Bolshevist leaders who had remained
in Berlin. It rumored that Rakovsk had
remained in Berlin We intended to carry out
an attempt against Litvinov, but found out
only too late the Wagon in which he travel
ing. With this failure ended this depressing
epic"
From the statement of Elvengren it is clear that
e did everything he could of technical nature to
i'll delegates to Genoa. At the decisive moment,
ne real "mastermnd" in the affair appeared, Sidney
gorge Reilly. Our delegation only escaped death
hanks to our own precautions and to the watchful-
ess of the Berlin police. Elvengref writes then
bout his further activity:
Cup till the autumn of 1925 was in France
and met periodically various monarchist person
alities, for instance, the Gar Kyril, the Grand
Duke Andrea Vladmirovitch, etc. This time was
occupied with a search for means to continue
the struggle"
In this purely monarchist environment Elvengren
avorite weapon against the Soviet Union ie, the
reapon of terrorism against the Soviet leaders, but
lvengren himself the physical impossibility of
rganizng widespread conspirative activity in
de the Soviet Union.
Together with Andrea Vladimirovitch and ALBERT,
lvengren organized attempt upon Comrade
utilizing the circumstance that Tchit-
nerin was in the south Of France for purpose of
The detailed statement of Elvengren in relation
this attempt may be summed up briefly:
''Under the directions Of Andrei Vladmiro-
witch an active terrorist group was organized
to act independently and without entering into
any connection with the other emigrant organi-
zatons The financial means to come
through Kyril from Americans and negotiations
for this purpose going Through the
White Guardist Eadishensk who was a member
of the group connection taken up with Au-
bert and the group expected to receive money
through the mediation of ALBERT from Ford
"When heard that Tchitcherin in the
south of France, our group decided to carry out
an attempt upon him. General Voioshin Prince
Vayasemski, the one-time Chancellor General
Kulinev and myself entrusted with the
carrying out of the attempt However, we were
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