There was for instance a man A", a former Koltchak officer, with knowledge of English, French and German, who achieved' good standing in the Hankow commercial community and was something of a social success, who worked indebly for' Borodin and seldom failed to get any information that Petroff and his Cheka particularly camouflaged his work expertly by Setting up a perfectly legitimate business there. In addition he successfully managed the bus ness affairs of a Mission with many' establishments throughout central China. He had a special spending allowance out of which he rented flat over a British shop, bought ponies and trained them at the Race Club, and entertained lavishly. How this man was originally Induced to enter the service of the Bolsheviks is hard to tell but the person who enlisted him was Com-jo Angorsky, an inspector for the Cheka, who asked him to call the Shanghai U.S.S.R, Consulate year ago and assigned him work do. Angorsky is best known in Russian circles by Keshka, In Shanghai sociated with Babitsky, Minsky a1 others and die so well that he w personally congratulated by Karakhan and received Soviet passports. for his whole family.
In Hankow, when he had estab-sly 3 himself, it became his bui Mausers, In May "A" and "B? brought in 100 Shosta machine guns, 2,000 hand grenades and 500 rifles of the Mauser type, Two British agents were also secured through who were of some service since their firm supplied certain stores to the gunboats and other steamers, One of them carried important documents arid also went frequently, to Shanghai to do special espionage work. They were men in good standing, but it was felt that the senior of the two had been indies Jereet ani? was under suspicion so he was given $5,000 for w trip Jabroad. I have forgotten to men tion that "A" also used the Mission with which he was connected for the despatch of important docu ments to Shanghai and other points, after Mrs, Borodin's arrest, which Shanghai, were consigned to a relative in
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