Mohammed Beck Hadjetlaché
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Mohammed Beck Hadjetlaché (approx. 1870, Istanbul - 1929, Stokholm) was a Circassian journalist, writer, SIS and cheka agent. Hadjetlaché used many assumed identities, most probably his real name was Kasi Beck Akhmetukov.
[edit] Biography
Kasi Beck Akhmetukov was born in Istanbul in a Circassian family, which fled from Russia after Russian-Circassian War. In 1878 his father, a Bashi-bazouk leader was killed in Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). In 1882 he returned to Russia, was adopted by childless Ettinger family and was called Grigory. In 1890-s he wrote and published several novels and short stories under the pen name Hadjetlaché.[1]
In 1902 Hadjetlaché joined Socialist-Revolutionary Party. In 1908 he started to publish magazine "Moslem" in Paris and newspaper "In the world of Islam" in Saint Petersburg.
In 1916 Hadjetlaché offered russian government to run a "anti-German and anti-Turkish propaganda campaign among the Moslems on a worldwide scale" and asked for money.[2]
He left Soviet Russia and came to Sweden in 1918, where under the cheka and SIS direction he organized a fake White Terrorist cell planing to help in the counter revolutionary struggle against the Bolsheviks with Stockholm as his base.[3] The goal of the operation was to portray all white emigres as bloodthirsty terrorists and provoke swedish police actions against Russian emigrants. Hadjetlaché purchased a house in the woods outside of Stockholm. To that house he and his gang brought people that he accused of being Bolshevik agents who he killed and their bodies were then dropped in a nearby lake. When the police discovered the gang in 1919, three murdered bodies were found in the lake, but according to Hadjetlaché’s own “death list” it is likely that more people had been killed.
Murder was used for propaganda purposes by Soviet press. Soviet writer Alexei Tolstoi included it in his novel "Emigrants".
Hadjetlaché was sentenced to life time in jail by the Swedish court and he died in 1929 at Långholmen prison.
[edit] Source
- Lundberg, Svante. Ryssligan (2004). ISBN 9189116534
- Fonds Mahomet-Beck Hadjetlache
- О кази-беке Ахметукове (Магомкд-Бек Хаджетлаше) и его потомках
