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Arkadii Mikhailovich Harting replaced Rataev as director of the Foreign Agentura. Could there have been any other choice? Merit combined with political connections made Harting the inevitable selection. As director of the Foreign Agentura Harting proved to be a dynamic, innovative and ambitious leader. It is noteworthy that his tenure in office easily survived his mentor Rachkovskii’s final swan-song in 1906. Ultimately a combination of factors including exhaustion and his exposure in the European press as none other than Landezen, the infamous, long escaped criminal from French justice, induced him to retire in 1908.
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Zuckerman, F.S. (2003). The 1905 Revolution and the Foreign Agentura: Harting’s Campaign Against Munitions Contraband, 1905–1908. In: The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514935_9
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