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|  | | Boris Savinkov: Renegade on the Left A biography of Boris Savinkov (1879-1925)who began his political career as a revolutionary terrorist plotting the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and ended it, under questionable circumstances, in a Soviet prison. In between he plotted coups and led insurgent armies driven by a Mapoleonic desire to make himself ruler of Russia. Among his collaborators in his blood feud with Lenin's bolshevik regime were Ace-of-Spies Sidney Reilly and Winston Churchill.
| |  | | Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult Reveals the long and mysterious relationship between the 20th century's most notorious occultist and British intelligence.
font size="2"> "Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. Crowley, who proclaimed himself the Great Beast 666, has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative charlatan. None of them have looked seriously at his career as an agent of British Intelligence.br />
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Using documents gleaned from American, British, French, and Italian archives, _Secret Agent 666_ reveals that Crowley's clandestine service linked him to the sinking of the Lusitania, a plot to overthrow the governme | |  | | Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly Based on documents from the long-sequestered files of Russian, British and American intelligence, this is the definitive biography of the so-called "Ace of Spies" and the world of deception and intrigue in which he chose to live--and die. Was he an anti-communist martyr, the first Soviet agent to penetrate Western intelligence, or simply a daring and ruthless international criminal?
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