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Russian Roulette
Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution | Giles Milton
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Recounts the extraordinary and thrilling story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia, led by Mansfield Cumming, who would one day pioneer the field of covert action and become MI6, and their mission to foil Lenin's plot for global revolution. 40,000 first printing.
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A history of the British intelligence efforts in Russia following the October Revolution, both the SIS in European Russia and the Indian Office in Central Asia. A read filled with interesting characters from Sidney Reilly the ace of spies, Dukes the only man who was ever knighted for espionage activities, to Bailey who at one point joined the Cheka in Tashkent, men who gathered intelligence, conducted sabotage and attempted coups.

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