The Russian Secret Agents?!

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  • j.r-ahde
    Inspector
    • Feb 2008
    • 1148
    #1

    The Russian Secret Agents?!

    Hello you all!

    I faintly remember reading sometime in the 1970s, that the Russian Secret Police (The Ochrana) agents would have been bedind the Autumn of Terror. Only to cause mayhem in the British Empire...

    Does anyone else remember this allegation and its origin?!

    All the best
    Jukka
    "When I know all about everything, I am old. And it's a very, very long way to go!"
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    • Chris Scott
      Chief Inspector
      • Feb 2008
      • 1853
      #2
      Hi Jukka
      I think you may be thinking of the Pedachenko story. One feature of this referred to an alleged copy of the Ochrana Gazette which contained details of Pedachenko (alias Konovalov etc.) and called in any material relating to him. This copy of the gazette originated, if memory serves me, from a Russian prince named Belloselski.
      The "causing mayhem" may be the same as the comment that the purpose of the crimes was to discredit the British police system
      Regards
      Chris

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        • Graham
          Assistant Commissioner
          • Feb 2008
          • 3813
          #3
          I believe none other than Rasputin himself named Pedachenko as the Ripper. There was something in the A-Z about this, I recall, and also something to the effect that William Lequeux (spelling?) received information from the Ochrana relating to the Ripper. My A-Z's loaned out at the moment, so can't check.

          Cheers,

          Graham
          We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze

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            • Tom_Wescott
              Commissioner
              • Feb 2008
              • 7001
              #4
              Stan Russo wrote something for Ripperologist recently regarding 'The Four Russian Suspects'. Although I haven't read it yet, what Jukka is talking about would certainly be covered in there.

              Yours truly,

              Tom Wescott

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                • Stephen Thomas
                  Chief Inspector
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 1728
                  #5
                  All dreamed up by Donald McCormick in the late 1950s, I believe

                  The Russian secret services surely would have had better things to do in 1888.
                  allisvanityandvexationofspirit

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                    • DVV
                      Suspended
                      • Apr 2008
                      • 6014
                      #6
                      Hi Jukka,

                      check Ripperologist #101 (May 2009) for the article Tom is referring to.
                      It's excellent, with great pics.

                      Amitiés,
                      David

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