In June 1899, the newly endowed Sidney Reilly and his new wife Margaret travelled to Czarist Russia using Reilly's new (forged) British passport - a passport and a cover identity both purportedly created by William Melville [REF].
Reilly would have an even greater success in January 1904, when he and Chinese engineer acquaintance Ho Liangshung allegedly stole the Port Arthur harbour defence plans for the Japanese Navy.