RUSSIANS DOPED

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18165, 1 November 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)

RUSSIANS DOPED

Considerable interest has been aroused in diplomatic circles by a book entitled “I Spy,” written by a woman who claims to have been an agent in the service of the Intelligence Department. The authoress, who gives her ' name as Baroness Carla Jenssen, and states that she is the daughter of the Danish Consul in Pretoria, makes many amazing disclosures —about the authenticity of whifch the publishers declare there can be no doubt—particularly in regard to events which led to the famous Arcos raid in London. _ / She declares that she came to England in June, 1926, lived in a flat in Pall Mall, and was t engaged by the British Intelligejice Department through “Major X,” of the South African Intelligence Department. There is apparently some mystery regarding the identity of the writer, as an official at the Danish 'Legation stated that “no one of the name she, had given appeared in the list of Danish nobility." Describing her adventures with Russian agents, Baroness Jenssen writes that she was roused at 6.55 a.m. in her London flat by a telephone call from Major X. . “There are certain papers on the way to this country from Russia," he stated, “which may cause considerable disturbances if they are allowed to be delivered ihto the hands they are intended for. They contain directions red-hot from Moscow for a very thorough Communist propaganda campaign in the English*' industrial districts. They’ve got to be stopped by all costs. I want you to leave Immediately for Paris and join Bentley (another British agent) there. A car will come for you in an hour’s time, and an aeroplane will be waiting for you at Croydon to take you across the Channel. Your number is 43—four gardenias and three pansies.” On her arrival at the Ritz in Paris, the baroness relates, she received an envelope J'rpm an elderly man which contained, a message instructing her “to go to Monte Carlo and await the arrival of two Russians—Tecklovitz and Nalbandova—at the Hotel de Paris. Two days later the Russians appeared and eventually the baroness

Struck Up a Friendship. She found both men taciturn, cold, surly and suspicious. With a promise to teach Tecklovitz to dance, however, she lured the two men to her room. Just as her visitors rang the bell she quickly sprinkled the flowers which decorated her apartment with “Perfume of Sleep”—a powerful drug with which she had been oupplied by a gipsy in Limehouse—at the same time soaking a handkerchief with an antidote for her own use. Soon both her guests had slid by easy stages into a heavy'slumber. When twenty minutes had passed the girl spy searched her victims, removed a number of cablegrams in code from their pockeie, and found the key of the Russians’ apartment lying on the floor. She ran to the landing oh which their rooms were situated, 1 and was about to put the key into the lock when there appeared the most for-midable-looking man she had ever seen—7ft tall, with high cheek-bones, sloping Mongol eyes, bushy side whiskers and stubbly chin beard. He ; was. the Russians’ bodyguard. Rushing downstairs, she entered her car, and drove hard for Paris to join Bentley. who discovered on de-coding the j cablegrams that they referred to a : Bolshevik meeting which was to beJ held at Dieppe that very night. Baroness Jenssen describes how .she and Bentley set out by car for Dieppe. After a long search

They Found the Underground Room where the meeting was to be held, and were admitted. While a little old man in a top-hat and cape was addressing the meeting—boasting that the Government of England would soon be in the hands of friends who awaited even

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then the signal to seize the reins of power—there was a stir and the baroness was alarmed to see the Russians’ bodyguard—the giant with the almond eyes—enter and take a seat opposite her. She tried to hide her face, but, was too late. “And then, horror of horrors!” she states, "he-rose slowly to his immense height and began to walk across the cave towards me, his great yellow fangs exposed in a vicious grin About two yards away he halted and pointed an accusing finger. ‘These are spies,’ he said in French. In a second all was mad confusion. I saw people rushing at us from all directions. Some - snatched up chairs for weapons, others were dragging knives out. a pistol shot slammed against my ear." The baroness was stabbed on the head and fainted. She recovered consciousness in a hospital at Highgate. where Bentley informed her that in the flight he had seized an attache-case. The case contained £3OO in cash, and papers implicating the Soviet Embassy in a plot for an industrial upheaval in England—a discovery which led seven months later to the Arcos raid, with its far-reaching results. -

According to Baroness Jenssen was responsible for the capture of “Cousin Tim.” a drug trafficker, who ran a club in the West End. At Ostend she was shot in the leg by a Turkish prince, whom she robbed of important papers after plying him with poisoned kisses. In Madrid she risked her life in search of a missing British wing-commander who had fallen into the clutches of a beautiful senorita. And later, in Paris, she again made a haul of valuable documents from an Indian barrister—“one of the world’s most dangerous Sedition-mongers”— by disguising herself as a middle-aged chambermaid.