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  • Sidney Reilly
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  • Sidney Reilly appears as a Great Spy in Civilization IV. Known as the "Ace of Spies," he spied for at least four nations (though maintained close connections with British intelligence) and is regarded as the 20th century's first super-spy. He served as the model for Ian Fleming's own super-spy character, James Bond.
  • Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC (c. 24 March 1873 – 5 November 1925), famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Jewish Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, the British Secret Service Bureau and later the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations. His notoriety during the 1920s was created in part by his friend, British diplomat and journalist Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, who publicized their thwarted operation to overthrow the Bolshevik regime in 1918.
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Birth Date
  • 1873-03-24
death place
  • Moscow, Soviet Union
Service
Spouse
  • Margaret Callaghan Thomas
  • Nadine Massino
  • Nelly "Pepita" Burton
Nickname
  • "Ace of Spies"
Name
  • Sidney Reilly
Operation
  • D'Arcy Affair
  • Lockhart Plot
  • Zinoviev Letter
Align
  • left
Caption
  • The man later known as Sidney Reilly, circa 1899.
Width
  • 35.0
Birth Place
  • Odessa, Russian Empire,now Ukraine
death date
  • 1925-11-05
Rank
Allegiance
  • (Germany, Japan, Imperial Russia)
  • United Kingdom 20px
Source
  • Robin Bruce Lockhart, Reilly: Ace of Spies, p. 71.
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Quote
  • "Reilly was dropped by plane many times behind the German lines; sometimes in Belgium, sometimes in Germany, sometimes disguised as a peasant, sometimes as a German officer or soldier, when he usually carried forged papers to indicate he had been wounded and was on sick-leave from the front. In this way he was able to move throughout Germany with complete freedom."
Birth name
  • Georgi Rosenblum
Codename
  • Salomon/Shlomo/Sidney Rosenblum
Nationality
  • Jewish Russian/Ukrainian
abstract
  • Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC (c. 24 March 1873 – 5 November 1925), famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Jewish Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, the British Secret Service Bureau and later the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations. His notoriety during the 1920s was created in part by his friend, British diplomat and journalist Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, who publicized their thwarted operation to overthrow the Bolshevik regime in 1918. After Reilly's death, the London Evening Standard published in May 1931 a Master Spy serial imparting his exploits. Later, Ian Fleming would use Reilly as a model for James Bond. Today, many historians consider Reilly to be the first 20th-century super-spy. Much of what is thought to be known about him could be false, as Reilly was a master of deception, and most of his life is shrouded in legend.
  • Sidney Reilly appears as a Great Spy in Civilization IV. Known as the "Ace of Spies," he spied for at least four nations (though maintained close connections with British intelligence) and is regarded as the 20th century's first super-spy. He served as the model for Ian Fleming's own super-spy character, James Bond.