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[lynn cates]

tangled web

Hello All. More information about Chicherin.

Q: Who sent Chicherin to London to study the Okhrana's activities amongst the Jewish anarchists/socialists?
A: Sergei Sviatikov.

Q: For what is Sviatikov best known today?
A: The Berne trials.

Q: What were they all about?
A: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Q: Who wrote this anti-semitic hoax?
A: Implicated in the creation of the forgery was Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky, head of the Paris office of the Russian Secret Police (Wiki)

Now, back to the OTHER hoax--"The Double Event."

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Hello Lynn,
extremely interesting. Even Philip Graves gave written testimony to the judge at the Bern trials. Lynn, Rachkovsky died already in 1910, but I've heard of the rumors that supposedly it was Rachkovsky's agent in Paris, Matvei Golovinski, who in the early 1900s authored the first edition of The protocols of the Elders of Zion, at least it appears that Russian testimony in the Berne trial linked Rachkovsky to the creation of the Protocols. In 1999 Russian historian Mikhail Lepekhine supposedly studied previously closed French archives stored in Moscow containing information supporting Golovinski's authorship. Supposedly also the German writer Konrad Heiden identified Rachkovsky as an author of the Protocols in 1944. {see Charles Paul Freund: Forging Protocols, in: Reason Magazine, February 2000, Patrick Bishop: Protocols of Zion forger named in: Daily Telegraph November 19, 1999 (Issue 1638), Vadim Skuratovsky: The question of the authorship of "The protocols of the Elders of Zion", Kiev, 2001, ISBN 966-7273-12-1.}
Also a female Rachkovsky agent (your favorite kind), Yuliana Glinka (who was a maid of honour of the tsarina, a mystic/occultist, and most probably a complete nutcase), has been cited as the person who supposedly brought the forgery from France to Russia, but this is most probably silly legend.
Lynn, I'm terribly sorry, but I don't have time to take hold of and read the lit I cited above! I've finished and submitted my tricky proposal, but a few minutes ago something new materialized (pertaining to an application which requires some work), then I have a long, important French article to finish, do the final editing of my book for publication, then another (Italian) article, a couple proposals and a paper for a conference, and all this is due before March, if possible.
But I PROMISE I'll keep my eyes open for any mention of Matvei Golovinski in the Paris sources (when I get there in March). I have to say I'm not at all convinced that the double event was a hoax staged by the Okhrana, but I'm willing to research this possibility.

[mariab]

On another matter, may I ask what was the Jenkinson spy ring?

[lynn cates]

Edward Jenkinson

Hello Maria. That's a good question.

Short answer. Edward Jenkinson was appointed assistant under secretary for police and crime at Dublin Castle. This was right after the Phoenix Park murders by the Fenians.

He later came to London and was the cause of constant friction with SY. Munro did not approve of his "extra legal spy tactics." Seems EJ kept a ring of spies answerable only to him. He finally was sacked (some versions have him resigning) late 1886/early 1887.

To this day many seek to ascertain WHO precisely were his spies. EJ himself claimed that he burned ALL the material concerning his spying activities.

Pity.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

London agentura

Hello Maria. I carelessly missed your preceding post. Sorry. Here is an article about Rachkovski's Okhrana. It has a nice section about his and Milevski's penetration agent in London. Fascinating.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/15/105045/13

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

spotter

Hello All. Here is more information on a Rachkovski agent. What is a "spotter for Scotland Yard"? And I wonder for which private investigation agency he worked?

http://www.viswiki.com/en/Casimir_Pilenas

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Hello Lynn,
I'll read your 2 links about Okhrana spies immediately, but I have a couple short questions:
- Would you at some point have time to read the lit I've located {Charles Paul Freund: Forging Protocols, in: Reason Magazine, February 2000, Patrick Bishop: Protocols of Zion forger named in: Daily Telegraph November 19, 1999 (Issue 1638), Vadim Skuratovsky: The question of the authorship of "The protocols of the Elders of Zion", Kiev, 2001, ISBN 966-7273-12-1}, just to see if any relevant Okhrana spies from the 1890s are mentioned in there, because right now I'm afraid I can't take care of this? The Daily Telegraph article quoted above I promise to look up online (as well as your Rocker, when it turns up, plus all good Rip articles on Berner Street).
- I'm so sorry to be so ignorant in Irish history, but what was Edward Jenkinson's stand on violent political activism pertaining to Irish Nationalism? Probably he did not commend it? I know about the suspicions pertaining to a John and Catherine Kelly found as entries in the Special Branch ledgers. (I even happen to have a picture of said entry on my computer.) And I completely realize the possible repercussions. (2 Bond girls at 6, Fashion Street, anyone?)
- Lynn, this is another ignorant question, but was Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (murdered in the Phoenix Park) at all acquainted with member of Parliament Cavendish Bentink, who strongly opposed W.T. Stead's agenda to illegalize underage prostitutes? I have a reason for asking, I promise.

[lynn cates]

sundry

Hello Maria. EJ was "spymaster general"--he knew how to keep the lid on things. There is an excellent photograph of him in Campbell's "Fenian Fire." It is possible that some members of his ring sought moonlighting positions here and there.

I assume that a lord should have at least a passing acquaintance with the various MP's. I doubt, however, that there is a significant connection between those two.

By the way, it would not be uncommon for lords to oppose the measure/s you mention--it could severely curtail their "slumming" activities! (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Lynn Cates wrote:
By the way, it would not be uncommon for lords to oppose the measure/s you mention--it could severely curtail their "slumming" activities! (heh-heh)
Absolutely, I get you. The reason I'm asking is that the stepmother of the Lord in question was blackmailed and threatened with murder by a private detective we've learned to know and like. In his threat letters he claimed to have known her personally. (Perhaps through her stepson?) But I was mainly searching for a possible connection to Phoenix Park.

[mariab]

Lynn, pertaining to the article linked in your post #215, I went through it twice and it doesn't seem to mention Milevski. He's not the same person an Miklaszewski? (?) Most fascinating I found the financial manipulation (not to mention the manipulation for arms sales), with the transfer of billions of gold rubles in Imperial Russian bonds out of the hands of the Berlin banks and onto the Paris Bourse in 1889, where French bankers promised to consolidate the Czar's enormous external debts (obviously with no success).

[lynn cates]

Milevski

Hello Maria. No, they are not the same. Milevski was in charge of staffing external agents. He hired "John" and "Murphy."

Butterworth considers it likely that these hires were from the local ex-police. (He argues by analogy with Milevski's hiring precedents in Paris.) He notes also that the files on "John" contain an air of secrecy which connotes--to Butterworth's mind, at least--that "John" was a moonlighting Met officer.

Malankievich (Miklaszewski) was Milevski's penetration agent amongst the Anarchists.

As Inspector Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) once observed: "Is confusing."

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Hello Lynn,
thank you for clarifying. I was briefly confused as there was no quote of Milevski in the very interesting article you linked in your post #215.
As for infiltration agents, I almost not dare remind you that in that dream I recently had that was precisely what you were asking me to do – infiltrate, plus learn Russian. And I was doing it. By the by, Lynn, if you haven't yet seen Salt with Angelina Jolie, please, would you consider go seeing it? It's the exact same context...!

[lynn cates]

cloak and dagger

Hello Maria. I hope this does not seem cloak and dagger--nothing could be further from my intentions.

In many ways, "Dr. No" is my favourite of the spy genre. Why? Because it is the most realistic--especially at first. Notice, people are sending reports over short wave radios, printouts are coming up--spying is just a matter of A keeping tabs on B whilst B keeps tabs on A.

Now, here's a question for you. Why did the Okhrana use locals for penetration agents and why did they use local detective agencies for investigation?

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

penetration agent

Hello All. Here is some background on the Okhrana penetration agent in London. He is mentioned at the end of teh article.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Zofia_Onufrowicz-P%25C5%2582oska&ei=I9MhTeXdKIT58Aah_Ij8DQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCUQ7gEwAjgK&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBoleslaw%2BMalankiewicz%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DqrQ%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Ds%26prmd%3Divns

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Hello Lynn,
I'm afraid I don't recall Dr. No that well. Is that the one with Ursula Andress? Salt contains infiltration, double agents, provocation, and the Russian intelligent service. And lots of Russian speak.

Lynn Cates wrote:
Why did the Okhrana use locals for penetration agents and why did they use local detective agencies for investigation?
For the same reason they employed independant assassins and agents provocateurs. Not so much for economy of effort, as for covering their butt. They favored covered operations, forgery, manipulations, and provocation to create political destabilization in other countries than in Russia. For instance in 1890 in Paris Harting organized a team of bombthrowers and then betrayed them to the Paris police. The heavily publicized arrests persuaded the French of the dangers posed by anarchism.
As a tactic it's not too different from what PI Le Grand did, when he planted evidence and pretended uncovering it to destabilize the London Police. Did he learn from the Okhrana? ;-)