Boris Gudz
Boris Gudz died in Moscow on December 27, 2006 at the tender age of 104. Boris Gudz was not only the oldest living Soviet spy, he was also the last surviving participant in Trest (операция “Трест”), one of the most brilliant counter-intelligence operations in espionage history, that lured the celebrated British agent Sidney Reilly among many others to their doom. Lessons for the KGB.
The Russian-born Reilly - said to have been an inspiration for Ian Fleming’s James Bond and later known as “the ace of spies” - was an extraordinarily colourful figure: businessman, womaniser, and inventor of bizarre schemes to overthrow the infant Soviet state. He was lured across the Finnish border, captured and taken to Moscow, where he was imprisoned at the Lubyanka prison.
Reilly was later shot in Sokolniki Park on November 3, 1925 supposedly on direct order from the ever tender Stalin. Gudz had only a modest role in all this playing a courier for Eduard Opperput, one of the Russian agents responsible.
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