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Ignace REISS, Elsa REISS: Polish. REISS was a Comintern Agent for a time before being...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/1898
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This record is about the Ignace REISS, Elsa REISS: Polish. REISS was a Comintern Agent for a time before being... dating from 1933 Jan 01 - 1950 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1933 Jan 01 - 1950 Dec 31
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Ignace REISS, Elsa REISS: Polish. REISS was a Comintern Agent for a time before being taken on by OGPU, the Soviet Intelligence Service, mainly for industrial espionage against Germany. He was at odds with official policy in the 1920s over the demotion of Trotsky and again in the 1930s over the purges which were then taking place. Having broken with his paymasters, he was murdered by OGPU agents in Switzerland in 1937
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 734332
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- Retained Until 2005
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- Open Document, Open Description
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