ABSTRACT
On 29 March 1906 Colonel Zasypkin, the new chief of the Tiflis Okhrana, arrested Koba on a Tiflis street. Several Social Democrats saw Koba being escorted to the Okhrana headquarters. They were surprised when he emerged from there a few hours later, explaining that Zasypkin had made him an offer to become an Okhrana agent but that he had refused. Sometime later Koba would claim that he had escaped from prison.1
