Deacon asserts in History of the Russian Secret Service that in April 1912, Reilly was an Ochrana agent with the task of befriending and profiling Basil Zaharoff, the international arms salesman and representative of Vickers-Armstrong Munitions Ltd.
On 18 May 1923, Nelly Louise "Pepita" Burton, known professionally as Pepita Bobadilla, actress and widow of Haddon Chambers, dramatist, married Sidney Reilly at a civil Registry Office on Henrietta Street, in Covent Garden, Central London, with Captain Hill acting as a witness [REF].