John Wallinger
Sir John Arnold-Wallinger (1869–1931) was a British Indian intelligence officer who led the prototype Indian Political Intelligence Office from 1909 to 1916. He was also the literary prototype of the spymaster of a number of Somerset Maugham's short stories. Arnold-Wallinger is credited with leading the Indian intelligence missions outside India, notably against the Indian Anarchist movement in England, and later against the Berlin Committee and the Hindu-German Conspiracy during World War I. Among his more famous agents was Somerset Maugham who was recruited as a British agent in Switzerland.[1]
References
- ^ Popplewell 1995, p. 230,234
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- International Institute for Asian Studies: Indian Political Intelligence Files Released for Research
- Popplewell, Richard J (1995), Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire 1904-1924. pp 130-195, Routledge, ISBN 071464580X.
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