James Bond's Real Life Story: On the evening of November 5, 1925, prisoner number 73 was escorted from his cell at Moscow’s infamous Lubyanka prison. He was taken by car along with three agents from ...

So many legends have been connected to the espionage agent Sidney Reilly—most famously, that the author Ian Fleming modeled James Bond after him—that it’s no easy feat to establish the facts of the ...

Sidney Rosenblum, a Russian born Jew, is recruited by the British espionage service and on his first assignment comes up with intelligence on the Russian oil fields but also sensitive information on ...