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Emanuel Viktor Voska (1875 in
E.V. Voska: The U.S. Army Captain Who Founded Czechoslovakia
1875 births 1960 deaths People from Kutná Hora People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States Hindu–German Conspiracy American people who died in prison custody Czechoslovak people who died in prison custody American people imprisoned abroad Prisoners who died in Czechoslovak detention Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk American people convicted of spying for the United States {{CzechRepublic-mil-bio-stub
Emanuel Viktor Voska (1875 in Kutná Hora
Kutná Hora (; medieval Czech: ''Hory Kutné''; german: Kuttenberg) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. The centre of Kutná Hora, including the Sedlec Abbey and its ossuary, was designa ...
, Bohemia
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– April 1, 1960 in Ruzyně
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Václav Havel Airport is located in this district. Czech Airlines has its head office on the grounds of the airport. Travel Service Airlines and its ...
prison in Prague
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, Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
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) was an U.S. intelligence agency
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officer in World War I
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and World War II
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.
Before and during World War I he worked extensively with Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas.
It may refer to:
* Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia
* Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur
* Tomáš Berdych ( ...
(1850–1937), first President of the Czechoslovakia. His intelligence activities are credited with the exposure of the Hindu–German Conspiracy
The Indo–German Conspiracy (Note on the name) was a series of attempts between 1914 and 1917 by Indian nationalist groups to create a Pan-Indian rebellion against the British Empire during World War I. This rebellion was formulated betwee ...
. In 1917, Voska was one of four Czech patriots who traveled to Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
with the British author Somerset Maugham
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, who was then working as a British intelligence agent, on a secret mission with the objectives of propping up the Provisional Government in Russia and preventing them from concluding a unilateral peace treaty with Germany. Voska was also instrumental in preventing the efforts of German agent Franz von Rintelen
Captain Franz Dagobert Johannes von Rintelen (19 August 1878 – 30 May 1949) was a member of the German nobility and a veteran field agent in the intelligence wing of the German Imperial Navy, who operated covertly in the still neutral United ...
to restore Victoriano Huerta
José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (; 22 December 1854 – 13 January 1916) was a general in the Mexican Federal Army and 39th President of Mexico, who came to power by coup against the democratically elected government of Francisco I. Madero wit ...
to the Mexican presidency during World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
.Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram (New York: NEL Mentor, 1967), pages 70–79
References
Further reading
* Spy and Counter-Spy by E.V. Voska and W. Irwin, pp. 98, 108, 120, 122–123, 126–127; * The Making of a State by T.G. Masaryk, pp. 50, 221, 242; * Indian Revolutionaries Abroad by A.C. Bose, pp. 232–233E.V. Voska: The U.S. Army Captain Who Founded Czechoslovakia
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