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1. Introduction: intelligence and empire; Part I. Before Pearl Harbor,1937-1941: 2. Wing Commander Wigglesworth flies east: the lamentable state ofintelligence, 1937- -1939; 3. Insecurity and the fall of Singapore; 4.Surprise despite warning: intelligence and the fall of Singapore; 5.Conspiracy or confusion? Churchill, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor; 6. 'ImperialSecurity Services': the emergence of OSS and SOE; Part II. India and spheresof influence, 1941-1944: 7. 'Do-gooders' and 'bad men': Churchill, Rooseveltand rivalry over empire; 8. American intelligence and the British Raj: OSSand OWI in India, 1941-1944; 9. Strange allies: British intelligence andsecurity in India, 1941-1944; Part III. Mountbatten's South East AsiaCommand, 1943-1945: 10. Secret service and Mountbatten's South East AsiaCommand; 11. Special operations in South East Asia; 12. The British SecretIntelligence Service (M16) in the Far East; 13. Centre and region: thepolitics of signals intelligence; Part IV. Rivalry or rivalries? China,1942-1945: 14. American struggles in China: OSS and Naval Group; 15. Britainand her allies in China; Part V. The end of the war in Asia, 1945-1946: 16.Anti-colonialism, anti-communism and plans for post-war Asia; 17. Resistingthe resistance: Thailand, Malaya and Burma; 18. Special operations inliberated areas: Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies, 1944-1946; 19.Hong Kong and the future of China; 20. Conclusion: the hidden hand and thefancy foot.