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

Dubbed an "agent of British imperialism" by Joseph Stalin, Reginald Teague-Jones (1889- 1988) was the quintessential English spy whose exceptional story is recounted in this new biography. He studied in St Petersburg, participated in the 1905 Revolution and spent the rest of his life worki...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Minassian, Taline ter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press USA, 2015.
Temas:
Teague-Jones, Reginald, > 1889-1988.
Teague-Jones, Reginald, > 1889-1988
Spies > Great Britain > Biography.
Espions > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Spies
Great Britain
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.

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