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He merely told him that a certain secret agent named Botkine was leaving Berlin for Petrograd on the twenty-second . `` The man is dangerous , '' he added , `` extremely dangerous . '' `` Why ? '' asked Gutchkoff , somewhat surprised at our midnight visit . `` Because -- well , because I happen to know that he is in possession of certain facts concerning very high personages . He is a blackmailer , and has been to Berlin to endeavour to sell some documents to Maximilian Harden -- documents which , if published , would place a certain member of our Imperial family in a very unsatisfactory light , '' Rasputin said . `` My friend Rogogin here will bear me out . ''