 Working under a variety of guises for the Soviet Central Executive Committee and the Foreign Trade Comissariat, she would appear for work at a Soviet government office as an extremely well-dressed typist-clerk, complete with lacquered nails, jewelry and well-tended skin, and would faithfully report on the actions and statements of its personnel.Plevitskaya and Skoblin were closely involved in the 1937 abduction of a White general, Yevgeny Miller, who was kidnapped in Paris, drugged and smuggled to Moscow, where he was tortured for nineteen months before he was killed in May 1938.After the kidnapping, Skoblin escaped to Barcelona, where the pro-Soviet Spanish Republican government refused to extradite him back to France.