By Harry Ferguson
In may perhaps 1919, mere months after the weapons of global conflict I had fallen silent, the Russian Revolution used to be roaring and the Bolsheviks' crimson military had all started to take the higher hand opposed to the U.S. and British-backed White Army.
Paul Dukes - a 30-year-old live performance pianist, grasp of hide dubbed 'The guy with 100 Faces,' and the one English undercover agent in Russia - used to be bring to a halt in Petrograd after infiltrating the Bolshevik govt and stealing top-secret information.
With the govt. in London desperately wanting the records in Dukes1 ownership and the Bolshevik mystery police ultimate in, a doubtless suicidal plan was once hatched to rescue Dukes. 29-year-old naval lieutenant Gus Agar and his handpicked group of 7 males boarded plywood boats?the quickest naval vessels in life, such a lot armed with merely laptop weapons and a unmarried torpedo. They set out for the island citadel of Kronstadt, the main well-defended naval aim in Russian, and into the jaws of the Soviet police.
Written by way of a former MI6 officer within the culture of Agent Zigzag, Operation Kronstadt is a very gripping non- fiction mystery.
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But on the second journey he had barely escaped with his life and the border was now so closely guarded by the Bolsheviks that it was almost impossible for couriers to get through. It was believed that his two most recent couriers had been captured and shot. The only other route out by land was to the south through the Baltic republics of Estonia and Latvia. But this area was now being fought over by the Red and White armies and security was even tighter than in the north as the Cheka, the dreaded Bolshevik secret police, hunted for deserters and infiltrators.
I would also like to thank: Commander Rodney Agar RN (retired), for his memories of his uncle; Phil Tomaselli, already well known to researchers in the history of espionage, who supplied the final part of the jigsaw by finding Paul Dukes’s private diaries; Dr John Fisher of UWE, Bristol and author of Gentleman Spies; Frances Welch, author of The Romanovs & Mr Gibbes; Sergey Gavrilov for his research in Finland and Russia into Peter Sokolov; Ann Trevor for her research in US archives; the Head of Security Department and several old friends at the Secret Intelligence Service; Francis M Newton, Jean Cowell, Daphne Porter, Lizzie Sanders and Roz Acland, who all contributed valiantly to my search for Laura Cade; Vin Callcut for sharing the memories of his father, CMB Motor Mechanic Horace G.
Lord Baden-Powell, who later founded the Boy Scout movement, was one such officer and he has left us a detailed account of his methods. Of course, Germany and other nations were doing exactly the same thing and in the pre-war years spies from both sides had been arrested while doing just this sort of work. But it was seen by all nations as simply one of the duties of a military officer – rather like their duty to escape from a POW camp – and those caught were usually let off with a small fine or the lightest of prison sentences.