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'''Emanuel Viktor Voska''' (1875 in [[Kutná Hora]], [[Bohemia]] – April 1, 1960 in [[Ruzyně]] prison in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]]) was an U.S. [[intelligence agency]] officer in [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].<br />
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Before and during World War I he worked extensively with [[Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]] (1850–1937),<ref>Preclík, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 pages, first issue vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czechia) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague), 2019, {{ISBN|978-80-87173-47-3}}, pp. 12–70, 101–102, 124–125, 128, 129, 132, 140–148, 184–199.</ref> first President of the Czechoslovakia. His intelligence activities are credited with the exposure of the [[Hindu–German Conspiracy]]. In 1917, Voska was one of four Czech patriots who traveled to [[Petrograd]] with the British author [[Somerset Maugham]], 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Curtis |first=Anthony |date=1977 |title=Somerset Maugham |location=London |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |page=112 |isbn=0297773674}}</ref> Voska was also instrumental in preventing the efforts of German agent [[Franz von Rintelen]] to restore [[Victoriano Huerta]] to the Mexican presidency during [[World War I]].<ref>Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram (New York: NEL Mentor, 1967), pages 70–79</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Spy and Counter-Spy by E.V. Voska and W. Irwin, pp. 98, 108, 120, 122–123, 126–127;<br />
* The Making of a State by T.G. Masaryk, pp. 50, 221, 242;<br />
* Indian Revolutionaries Abroad by A.C. Bose, pp. 232–233<br />
* [https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/e-v-voska-the-u-s-army-captain-who-founded-czechoslovakia/ E.V. Voska: The U.S. Army Captain Who Founded Czechoslovakia]<br />
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