Most Secret Agent of Empire: Reginald Teague-Jones, Master Spy of the Great Game

Cover --
Half-title --
Title --
Copyright --
Dedication --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
List of Abbreviations --
Introduction --
1. Childhood in Liverpool and St Petersburg --
2. From the Punjab to the North West Frontier: The Making of a Gentleman of the Raj --
3. The Persian Gulf and the Hunt for \'Mr Wassmuss\' --
4. Ashkhabad and the Transcaspian Episode --
5. The Legend of the Twenty-Six Commissars: Teague-Jones, Hero or Villain? --
6. The Retreat of the White Armies: From Constantinople to the Caucasus (1919-21) --
7. Ronald Sinclair, Imperial Traveller --
8. Ronald Sinclair in America (1941-60) --
Epilogue --
Note on the Sources --
Notes --
Index --
Persia and the Russian Revolution --
The Anglo-American relationship and the test of India --
The transfer of power --
British Security Coordination at the heart of Anglo-American relations during the Second World War --
The colonial eye behind the camera --
\'Zobeida and I\': A Persian Odyssey --
Persian adventures: to India by the back door --
A nest of spies in Constantinople --
\'A malicious propaganda legend\' (Teague-Jones, November 1979) --
The Caucasian imbroglio --
Teague-Jones and the Soviet-Turkish Entente --
Baku: 1918 --
The drama of the twenty-six commissars: the anatomy of an execution --
Reginald Teague-Jones: \'Political Representative in Transcaspia\' --
From improvisation to retreat: the Transcaspian episode --
A Secret Mission at the gates of Central Asia in 1918 --
An Englishman in Russia --
The tribulations of the \'German Lawrence\' in the Persian Gulf --
The Great War and Persia --
The training-ground: the North West Frontier Province --
An ambition: joining the Indian Political Service --
Red Sunday: memories of the 1905 Revolution --
Liverpool: birthplace and departure point --
Pendennis Street. Liverpool: \'Second City of the Empire\' --
Warning bells and \'ice-hilling\' --
The preludes to an expected drama --
Caught in the crowd: Teague-Jones, witness to the massacre --
A foretaste of the Frontier: the Punjab --
The Indian Political Service: a caste within the colonial administration --
A shadow organisation: the Indian Political Intelligence Service --
Administrative and political frontiers: controlling the hinterland --
Sherani country --
The Frontier: a territory for elites? --
Iran during the First World War: the theory and practice of \'neutrality\' --
Jihad and pointed helmets --
A police force in the South: the South Persia Rifles (SPR) --
Wassmuss, a model field-agent --
Reginald Teague-Jones on Wassmuss\'s track --
Dazzling St Petersburg --
A German Education at St Petersburg: the Annenschule --
First impressions of Transcaspia --
Transcaspia after the Russian Revolution: from the Red offensive to the emergence of a Turkmen power --
The brief history of a transient government: the Transcaspian government --
The Turkmen question: an instrumental strategy? --
An intelligence service in Yomut country --
Malmiss: game over --
\'This is a railway war\' --
A railway government --
Building an intelligence network in Transcaspia --
A political drama with a railway ending --
Passengers for Krasnovodsk --
Diminished responsibilities --
The country before the battle --
Baku: the geostrategic prize --
The siege of Baku --
A confluence of interests --
Ajaria: a strategic position on the Soviet-Turkish frontier --
Plans for a Muslim policy: an Alliance counter-strategy against Russia --
Back to Baku --
Georgia on the eve of the Red invasion --
The view from Mount Ararat (February 1921) --
The origins of the Soviet case: Vadim Chaikin\'s inquiry --
Shot or decapitated? The culprit on stage: Teague-Jones in Soviet iconography --
In the ruins of the Ottoman Empire: Constantinople in 1919 --
\'Beefsteaks a la Hoover-Nansen\' --
A meeting with General Wrangel --
Kurdistan to Iranian Azerbaijan: assessing Soviet influence --
Iran from north to south: Tehran to Bushire --
Iran from west to east: return to Baluchistan --
An opaque mission in Iran for a combination of partners --
Levantine encounters --
Across the Syrian Desert --
A Cairo idyll ... --
A passenger of Imperial Airways --
A season in Tibet --
Rockefeller Center, 38th Floor, Room 3801 --
June 1941: an emergency mission to Bermuda --
Major Sinclair, BSC Coordination officer --
The other side of the mirror --
\'Sahib! Sahib!\' --
Return to the North West Frontier --
The IPI: from imperial security to Anglo-American collaboration --
The India League of America: the rising power of a pressure group --
Counter-propaganda in the land of democracy --
On the road to Meshed --
Meshed: Teague-Jones at the Turkestan frontier.