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The Ace of Spies | Historical

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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Taking a Break From the Theatre Attacks

Every member of our party would be carrying grenades in a packed theatre. We would then invite anti communist forces into moscow to establish order. If the bolsheviks in the theatre resisted, well, i was prepared to die. A month before the event, one of riley's safe houses in petersburg is raided by the chequer. No incriminating documents discovered, but it was concerning. Then three weeks before the attack, riley calls his trusted second in command using a secret private phone. And he refused to acknowledge me when i introduced myself under a code name. Perhaps it was vanity, but i had a vision of myself on that stage, looking lenin in the eye

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