Stephen Alley

Captain Stephen Alley was an engineer and MI6 (SIS) agent born in a House of Yusupov Palace, Moscow, Russia. He was educated in both Russia and England and became experienced in building rail transport. He is noted by many authors and documentaries for alleged involvement in the murder of Grigori Rasputin whilst working for the British Military Control Office in Saint Petersburg. Alley was alleged to be the author of a notorious letter to John Scale on 25th December 1916 that, if authentic, is claimed by BBC History to be "the best proof of British involvement in Rasputin's murder"