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The Lockhart Plot:
When Bolshevik Russia signed a separate peace with Germany in 1918, British intelligence snapped into action. With Robert Bruce Lockhart's blessing, secret agent Sidney Reilly devised a scheme to install a pro-Western government in Moscow. But the Cheka thwarted the "Lockhart Plot," and the two British conspirators barely escaped alive. Shortly after the war, Reilly presented this cigar box to Lockhart as a memento. In 1943, Lockhart was knighted, receiving these medals in recognition of his travails in Moscow. |