> rachkovsky then tipped off the sret, the french secret police, and conspirators were arrested, but landesen escaped. in a widely publicised trial of 1890, the conspirators were sentenced to prison terms or expelled from france. landesen, considered the ring leader, was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison > this operation served not only the primary task of neutralising the radical revolutionaries, but also to show to the russian government that france was no longer soft on subversives. this facilitated the franco-russian alliance, which was rachkovsky's major of diplomatic goal > in 1900, he was appointed head of okhrana berlin station, which initially operated as a branch of the paris okhrana under rachkovsky, but more independently after 1902, when rachkovsky was replaced by a new chief, leonid rataev. in berlin harting organised a surveillance and penetration network similar to that operated by rachkovsky in paris. one of his agents was jacob zhitomirsky, who provided valuable information on the activities of the russian social democratic labour party and its bolshevik faction, including the inner circle of russia's future communist leader, vladimir lenin. zhitormirsky's information led to the arrest of kamo by the german police for his role in the 1907 tiflis bank robbery. in 1904, during russo-japanese war, harting was sent on an assignment not directly related to revolutionary activities. he was to organise a surveillance of possible japanese spies in the baltic, in order to prevent disruptions to the navigation of russian fleet to the pacific > after the assassination of interior minister vyacheslav von plehve and the escalation of revolutionary activity in 1905, rachkovsky was brought back into okhrana as a deputy head of the police department, and soon after arranged to have rataev replaced with harting as chief of paris okhrana. under harting, paris okhrana reached the peak of its activity
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