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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.

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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

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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]

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

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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

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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

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

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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.

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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

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Hello Lynn.
So it's supposed to mean West End?
I HATE tasks. Still haven't done the proposal, but will do it tomorrow.

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west

Hello Maria. My take is that the "W" would preclude Whitechapel.

Spymaster? I? Well, sometimes my students think of me as a taskmaster. Close enough? (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC

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Lynn Cates wrote:
Hello Maria. That's not to mention diminutives, as "Mitya" for "Dmitri."
Oh yeah, that too. Dmitri, Mitya, Mityenska, “my little pigeon“. (The latter being the standard Russian diminutive/term of endearment. Talking about “pigeonholing“ for the Russians.)

Lynn Cates wrote:
I think Freud would say you need a break from the Ripper. (heh-heh)
Oh man, totally. I've already had 3 Ripperological dreams, and you were majorly involved in the third, as a spymaster, though not present. Still, it was unquestionably more pleasant than the latest nightmare I had this afternoon, where I dreamt for hours that my bank card was malfunctioning and I kept trying to use it and the process kept disrupting. Huh? I think I'm stressed about “New Year's expectations“, plus there's a pretty tricky proposal due yesterday that I'd better take care of later today, if I wanna make the deadline.

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Hello Lynn,
pertaining to the attachment in your post #205, is “107, Charlotte Street, W.“ located in London, Whitechapel?
Pertaining to the attachment in your post #206, what an assh*le, that Tscharevitch! He killed bears, and small, too. The shot bears look cuddly. Maybe we'll end up identifying Anastasia instead of the Ripper, if we continue in this direction thoroughly.

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don't give up

Hello All. Perhaps some day the right trunk will be discovered. Don't give up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11913509

Cheers.
LC

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my lord(s)!

Hello All. Here is a link relating to Tchitcherine's incarceration and subsequent swap. Paragraphs 9 & 10 are quite interesting. I believe Bernard Porter discusses this in his book.

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1918/jan/30/treatment-of-russians

Cheers.
LC