-Caveat Lector-
An excerpt from:
Spies
Jay Robert Nash�1997
M. Evans and Company, Inc.
216 East 49th Street
New York, NY 10017
ISBN 0-87131-790-7
624pps
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LINCOLN, ISAAC (or IGNATIUS) TIMOTHY TREBITSCH
Hungarian Spy-for-Hire (1872 or 1879-1943)
COLORFUL AND UNPREDICTABLE, FEW PEOPLE EVER really knew Isaac (or Ignatius)
Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln. Those who did professed later to be utterly
mystified by him. He was an adventurer who knew no loyalties, except to
himself. At one time or another he was a political spy�an espionage agent for
many nations�often feeding information to both sides. This human chameleon
was also a journalist, religious leader, member of British Parliament,
forger, Buddhist monk, and mandarin. Charming, witty, a linguist and business
entrepreneur, Lincoln traveled throughout Europe, England, America, and the
Far East. He counted as friends European kings, Chinese princes, American
statesmen, as well as low-life confidence men, cat burglars, and prostitutes.
Born with the name Trebitsch in Paks, outside of Budapest, Hungary, Lincoln's
father was a successful Jewish shipbuilder, his business located on the
Danube. As a child, Lincoln received an exceptional private education that
included learning many languages.
Then, in 1896, apparently with the police on his heels for some minor
offense, Lincoln hastily departed Hungary and journeyed to England. With
little money in his pocket, Lincoln found shelter in Whitechapel, the Jewish
quarter of London that had been the prowling grounds of Jack the Ripper only
eight years earlier. There Lincoln met the Rev. Epstein, who represented a
society that attempted to convert Jews to Christianity.
After a short period in which he was accused of stealing small amounts,
Lincoln fled to Germany. In Hamburg he studied theology and was baptized in
the Methodist Church. From Hamburg, Lincoln went to Canada where he
officially converted to Lutheranism, studied for the ministry, and seduced a
ship captain's daughter. Confronted with his sexual transgression by the
girl's father and seminary officials, Lincoln admitted that, indeed, he had
fallen in love and intended to marry the girl.
Following the marriage, Lincoln and his wife traveled to remote timber and
mining camps in Canada, serving as Lutheran missionaries. Lincoln was a
magnificent orator with a stentorian voice and he was hailed as one of the
most dynamic religious speakers in the country at the Halifax International
Missionary Exhibition. He came to meet provincial governors, statesmen, and
business tycoons.
Lincoln tired of Lutheran dogma, however, and switched to the Anglican
church, again studying for the ministry. On Christmas Day, 1902, he was
ordained an Anglican minister by no less a personage than the Archbishop of
Montreal. Within three months, Lincoln complained that his religious duties
had exhausted him. He left Canada, traveled to Hamburg, Germany, and then
went back to England. Lincoln then wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
requesting a license to officiate in England. This was granted.
Quitting his post in Kent in 1905, Lincoln went to York where he took up
teaching in a Quaker school. He met Quaker leader and cocoa millionaire
Seebohm Rowntree who was a prominent member of the Liberal Party.
Rowntree was so impressed with Lincoln that he made him his private secretary
and assigned him research projects. Lincoln diligently worked for his mentor
Rowntree from 1906 to 1909, the longest period of any time in his life that
he kept a single job. There was a purpose to Lincoln's diligence. He had
learned all he could from Rowntree, using his mentor's political connections
to establish himself as candidate of the Radical Party in Darlington. To that
end, he also officially changed his name to Lincoln and became a naturalized
British citizen. He was known as Trebitsch-Lincoln or simply Lincoln.
Funds for the campaign were supplied by Lincoln himself, money, it was later
claimed, he had purloined from Rowntree's ample coffers, although no one
could ever prove the misappropriation. To almost everyone's surprise, Lincoln
was elected to Parliament, making his first speech before the House of
Commons on February 23, 1910. Follow members thought little of Lincoln except
as an object of mirth; his decided accent was mimicked and mocked.
After losing his seat in Parliament, Lincoln became a contributing writer for
several London newspapers. He next decided to go into the oil business,
convincing the gullible Rowntree to loan him money, and, through Rowntree, he
also obtained considerable funds from the London joint Stock Bank.
Investments in European oil proved disastrous and Lincoln went bankrupt. He
went back to journalism, serving as a foreign correspondent in covering the
Balkan Wars of 1912-1913. Lincoln saw that he could make money by selling
information, so he became a paid spy for Bulgaria. When he realized that he
could earn money from both sides, he offered his espionage services to Turkey.
The Bulgarian secret service discovered Lincoln's role as a double agent and
arrested him, throwing him into a Sofia prison. His release, strangely
enough, was brought about by the intervention of Walther Nicolai, chief of
German military intelligence. Why Nicolai would arrange the release of this
peculiar Englishman has never been fully explained, but it was conjectured
that Lincoln was either already a spy for the Germans in the Balkan Wars, his
true espionage role, or that he agreed to spy for the Germans in England once
he returned to his adopted country.
When Lincoln returned to England in August 1914, on the eve of World War 1,
he immediately applied for a position with British intelligence but SIS
turned him down. This rejection caused Lincoln to develop an almost
pathological hatred for the British. The would-be spy then went to Rotterdam,
ostensibly to find out from the German Consul how his mother-in-law was
faring in Hamburg. To that end, Lincoln met with Lieutenant-General von
Ostertag in The Hague on December 29, 1914. Lincoln knew Ostertag from his
days when the German official had been a military attache in the German
Embassy in London before the war. Ostertag was, as the SIS knew, also the
chief of the Abwehr in Holland when Lincoln met him at The Hague.
Upon returning to England, Lincoln went directly to the chief of naval
intelligence, Reginald "Blinker" Hall, to state that he had obtained a copy
of the German code that all Abwehr agents used. He turned over a code that
SIS, after quick analysis, concluded he had made up himself, one that was
absolutely useless.
Naval intelligence stalled Lincoln for a few weeks before he was brought
before Admiral Hall. The navy intelligence chief, who believed Lincoln was
acting as a double agent and had been in the employ of the Abwehr since 1912,
told him that he was playing a dangerous game, that "the sooner you turn your
back on England, the better it will be for you."
Lincoln, stunned, did not delay. Ho sailed for America the very next day on
board the steamer Philadelphia. He arrived in Now York on February 9, 1915.
He immediately went to the! German consulate and offered his services as a
spy but the Germans, apparently, had reservations about him and declined,
Next, Lincoln began writing venomous articles about the British government
that appeared in many German-American newspapers.
To stifle Lincoln's virulent propaganda, British officials demanded his
extradition to face the criminal charge of forgery. After protracted
negotiations, this was granted by the U.S. government. He was arrested on
August 4, 1915, and sent to England. Once in England, Lincoln was tried in
1916 and convicted, then sent to prison for three years.
Released in 1919, Lincoln was deported to Hungary where Bela Kun was
conducting a reign of terror. Lincoln left for Germany. There he announced
that he was an ardent monarchist and he gave public speeches urging the
restoration of the Kaiser. He even traveled to Amerongen where the Kaiser
lived in exile and attempted to gain an audience with the deposed monarch but
was rebuffed.
Going to Vienna and then Budapest, Lincoln attempted to interest Hungarian
officials in a monarc[h]ist takeover of the country but he was rebuffed. He
went to Italy where he joined the Black Shirts of Benito Mussolini. As an
ardent fascist, Lincoln was reported to have been involved in the abduction
of Geocomo Matteotti, the only important politician in Italy opposing
Mussolini. On June 10, 1924, Matteotti was kidnapped by six men as he left
his office in Rome. His remains were not found until two months later.
Many of those involved with this political assassination, which had been
directly organized by Mussolini, as it was determined following World War 11,
fled the country at the time. One of these was Lincoln, who first went to
Chile and then to China. He was found there in the mid-1920s as the political
adviser to Wu Pei Fu, a warlord. He admitted to an American correspondent for
the New York World that he had been a double spy in World War 1, but that he
had given up all those "ungodly pursuits," and had found peace in China as a
Buddhist monk. He had finally found his true religion, Lincoln insisted.
In China, Lincoln was anything but pious. He actu-ally served as an
intelligence agent for the Chinese government in Peking and later in other
parts of the country, working under the direction of Chiang Kai--shek's
spymaster, Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen. By 1926, however, Lincoln had quit China
and had moved on to Ceylon where he was known as Dr. Leo Tandler. At the time
it was reported that he was spying for China or Japan or both. It was then
that Lincoln learned that one of his sons had been convicted of murder in
England and was about to be hanged.
Lincoln contacted British authorities and asked for permission to visit
England in order to say goodbye to his son before he was executed. This was
granted and Lincoln traveled to England via France where he either lost his
money in a card game or was robbed. Destitute, he had to borrow more funds
and by the time he got this money and returned to England, his son had been
hanged. He returned to Europe, moving from one capital to another, buying
arms for China as the representative of Chiang Kai-shek, negotiations for
which he concluded in 1927.
Lincoln returned to China, taking up residence in the teeming city of
Shanghai. He called himself Abbot Chao Kung, proclaiming himself to be a
Buddhist preacher, leader, and healer. He established a large and opulent
monastery and had three Buddhist monks attending him, along with six
"Bhikshunis," or begging girls. The monastery was, in fact, an espionage
headquarters that Lincoln operated for Japanese intelligence for the
ubiquitous Colonel Kenji Doihara of the Special Service Organ. Lincoln's
monks were agents, and his begging girls were street informers. Lincoln
gathered much information for Japan during the years prior to the Japanese
invasion of China and continued in that capacity until his death.
Even Lincoln's death was initially shrouded in mystery. Radio Tokyo
sorrowfully announced on October 7, 1943, that the "revered Abbot Chao Kung"
had died after an unsuccessful operation to save his life. He had been
stricken by an unspecified illness, Tokyo declared. The "illness" was a
Japanese dagger driven into Lincoln's back by one of Doihara's assassins,
sent after the Japanese learned that Lincoln, his loyalties forever
unpredictable, had concluded that Japan would lose the war and had gone back
to Chiang Kai-shek as a spy for China.
[ALSO SEE: Abwehr; Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen; Kenji Doihara; Walther Nicolai;
SIS]
pps. 319-321
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