Revealed the unexpected prototype of spy 007

Few people know that Sidney Reilly is the prototype for the 007 spy character in the famous series of the same name.

One of the first victories of the All-Russia Special Committee to Combat Anti-Revolutionary Elements (CHECA) was to smash the conspiracy between foreign intelligence and internal reactionary organizations to overthrow the Soviet government. - Young writing. Sidney Reilly is a spy of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), the precursor of Mi-6, which was captured by CHECA and later sentenced to death.

Sidney Reilly. (Image: Wikipedia)

Reilly's real name is Slomo Rosenblum, born in Ukraine. He is described by contemporary researchers as an ingenious person who knows how to trust others, likes beautiful girls and gets drunk on murder but not as heroes like in the movies. Reilly's involvement with Russia is mainly reflected in the Savinkov case - a well-known agent carried out under the direct guidance of CHECA President FE Dzherzhinsky.

In the summer of 1918, England dispatched its military in cooperation with 13 other military forces to conduct an armed intervention in order to destroy the world's first peasant state. They sent agent Bruce Loccart to hide under the diplomatic front to Moscow, ostensibly to "make informal contact" with the Bolsheviks, but in fact sought to create riot from within Russia to coordinate with force from outside.

Sidney Reilly is a regional agent of Loccart. Reilly has contacted B. Savinkov, a leader of the leftist Social Democratic Party. The two men planned a rebellion that killed Bolshevik leaders exactly the night the Allies landed in Russia.

FE Dzherzhinsky sent two CHECA officers to play disgruntled Red Army officers into the Savinkov ranks and claimed responsibility for assassinating Lenin and Trotsky (at this time Trotsky was the Defense Commissar (Minister) of Defense and Chairman of the Army Council. the).

The plot of Loccart - Savinkov is therefore bankrupt from the egg. Loccart was arrested and deported; Savinkov was arrested, taken to court and sentenced to death. Reilly escaped to the UK only half an hour before the arrival of CHECA security officials. However, in 1925, he was seduced by CHECA to the Soviet Union, then arrested and executed.

Details of Reilly's death were not publicly available until recently. During his lifetime, Soviet Intelligence Colonel Boris Godz, who had participated in the "lure" campaign, said Reilly: The leadership of CHECA (in 1925 it was renamed General Political General Office - OGPU) to set up a TREST pseudonym to attract elements opposing the Soviet government.

Despite having been warned of the dangers lurking in Russia, Reilly still turned, plunged herself into a trap set in Moscow, captured and destroyed.

In the recently published "Sidney Reilly in the British Secret Service" by Andrew Cook, Colonel B. Godz is described as the man who carried out the campaign of trapping Reilly and witnessing the death of the prototype spy for 007. . According to Colonel Godz, Stalin himself directly ordered the execution of Reilly. Colonel Godz's three teammates Ibrahim Abisalov, Grigory Feduleev and Grigory Suroezkin are the ones directly executing the death penalty with Reilly in a forest.

Reilly's body was later transferred to OGPU authorities for medical examinations and photography. Until 1937, Godz still retained the shotgun that had been shot by Reilly by his friend Abisalov. Unfortunately, due to the ups and downs of the times, the colonel could not hold that gun.

Author Andrew Cook made his conclusions about the character who was later chosen to be the prototype for the famous 007 agent: "The paradox of humor is that the one who knows how to win the trust of others has become a victim. of that ability " .