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1. Who was Sidney Reilly?
2. What was his real name?
3. Where was he born?
4. Who did he work for?
5. Who is the author of the book published in 1967?
1. Who was Sidney Reilly?
2. What was his real name?
3. Where was he born?
4. Who did he work for?
5. Who is the author of the book published in 1967?
1-His adopted name was Sidney Reilly. He was actually born Sigmund Rosenblum in Odessa in 1874. He ended up in 1925 in the hands of the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, but the circumstances of his death to this day remain a mystery. What is certain is that his exploits as a British secret agent were the stuff of legend, and that, even in an age top-heavy with espionage fact and fiction, his story cries out for dramatization.
ReplyDelete2-original name Sigmund Rosenblum
3- He was actually born Sigmund Rosenblum in Odessa in 1874.
4-There Sidney Reilly worked a series of odd jobs; on plantations, road construction, as a dockworker, but he got his big break while working as a cook for a British expedition into the wild. He was masquerading as a Brazilian named Pedro, and saved many of the group’s lives during an attack by a native tribe. Sidney Reilly, the erstwhile Russian double agent who was operating on Britain's behalf, were involved in the formulation and execution of various attempts to snatch both Russia and the [Romanov family] from the Bolsheviks.
5-The series was inspired by a book of the same title by Robin Bruce Lockhart published in Britain in 1967. Universal Pictures instantly took an option on the story and planned to make a feature film with Laurence Harvey as Reilly.
1.Sidney George Reilly is a secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau.One British newspaper in the 1920's dubbed him ''the greatest spy in history.'' Another called him ''The Scarlet Pimpernel of Red Russia.'
ReplyDelete2.Sigmund Rosenblum
3.He was actually born Sigmund Rosenblum in Odessa in 1874
4. He worked as a double agent, turned the tide of wars and changed world history more than once.
5.The author of the book is Robin Bruce Lockhart. His book about the legendary secret agent Sydney Reilly , was published in 1967 and adapted into the 1983 television miniseries Reilly: Ace of spies
1.Sidney George Reilly is British intelligence, operating in 1910-1920 in Russia and the Middle East. In addition to Russian, he was fluent in six more languages.
ReplyDelete2.His real name was Sigmund Rosenblum.
3.He was born in Odessa in 1874.
4.He was a double agent.In 1897-1898 he worked at the English Embassy in St. Petersburg.
5.The book was written by Robin Bruce Lockhart.The book of R. B. Lockhart - the biography of the most virtuoso super agent of the 20th century - is supplemented by unique, first published materials from the archives of the FSB of Russia and Pepita Bobadilla, the last wife of the super spy.