LET US MENTION another sanguinary affair which recently took place in Moscow within the walls of the OGPU.
V. B. Savinkov was closely associated abroad with a certain Englishman by the name of S. Reilly who had formerly worked with them. This Reilly was acquainted with the Trust company, had faith in them and considered them to be sincere anti-Bolsheviks. With their assistance he decided to take a secret trip to Russia, not so much for the purpose of revolutionary struggle against the Bolsheviks as for the purpose of reconnaissance for his personal affairs.
The members of the Trust took him across the Finnish frontier. For several days he remained unmolested in Moscow, when he was suddenly arrested there. The Trust at once took steps for his release, knowing that the arrest of Reilly would throw suspicion on them and they may be accused of his arrest. But Stalin energetically protested, and the OGPU wished either to compel Reilly to serve them as Yakushev and Opperput had done or once and for all get rid of a person dangerous to the OGPU. Reilly would not consent to their proposals, the consequence of which was that he was several times brought out ostensibly to be shot and subsequently examination was resumed.
The Bolsheviks at first wished to conceal his arrest but the English somehow or other found it out, and the Bolsheviks, in order to escape the possible demands by the English of his release, murdered him when he was taken out for exercise, after first putting into practice their methods of torture. The murderer of Reilly, a member of the Tch-K, one Ibrahim, put several bullets into Reilly out of a Nagan revolver on the Vorobievo hills where Reilly was ostensibly taken out for exercise.
After that the Bolsheviks inserted a statement in the press that Reilly was trying to cross the Finnish border, when he was discovered by the frontier guard, and in the shooting which ensued he was severely wounded and ultimately died.
The history of Reilly is one of many episodes which abound in the history and actions of the Moscow OGPU.
We have pointed out of course only a few of the facts which have recently come under our notice concerning the actions of the OGPU.
The danger of provocative dealings of secret departments, which was at one time universally recognised, has paled before the danger with which Russia and the whole world is threatened by the provocative actions of the Bolshevik OGPU.
We wish to draw special attention of the emigrants to that part of provocative dealings abroad which are, at the present time, being carried out by the Bolshevik OGPU. One must not forget the fact that the Bolsheviks are first and foremost provocateurs, and in their provocative work they are capable of such deeds, as the affairs of Savinkov, Shulgin, Dolgorouki and Reilly have shown, which the former political departments were never capable of.
The OGPU is doing everything in its power to get the émigrés into their clutches and the émigrés must make their struggle with the OGPU their first duty.
From the White Russian journal Sevodnia, 11 October 1926