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Catalogue description Oscar Vladimirovich GILINSKY alias JILINSKY, GILINTSIS: Latvian. An arms dealer in...
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| Reference: | KV 2/3387 |
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| Description: |
Oscar Vladimirovich GILINSKY alias JILINSKY, GILINTSIS: Latvian. An arms dealer in Paris, in 1937 GILINSKY was purchasing arms for the Spanish Popular Front on behalf of the Soviet Government. In November 1940 he was arrested by the Germans in Paris but managed to obtain an exit permit. He claimed he achieved this by bribing individual Germans but, after ISOS material showed he was regarded as an Abwehr agent, he was removed in Trinidad from a ship bound for Buenos Aires and brought to Camp 020 for interrogation. He was deported in 1946 |
| Date: | 1929 Nov 12 - 1939 Jan 12 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 46098 VOL 1 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2011 |
| Record opening date: | 02 April 2011 |
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