ILLUSTRATIONS

My parents on their wedding day, 1929

In my pram, 1935

On holiday with my mother and my brother, 1938

Bomb damage, 1941 (© Hulton Archive)

5 Ilkley Road, Barrow, 1941

Bulganin and Khrushchev, 1956 (© Press Association)

Graduation day, 1958

Interesting historical papers, 1961

The India Office Library Reading Room, 1963 (By permission of the British Library)

The Establishment Club (from Peter Cook Remembered, Ed. Lin Cook 1996)

Queuing to buy The Denning Report, 1963 (© Topham Picturepoint)

On the voyage to India, 1965

Received by the President of India, 1968 (© Punjab Photo Service)

Learning my part, 1968

Playing in ‘Hotel Paradiso’, 1968

Up the garden path to my first job in MI5

On the road to Kabul, 1968

‘Our engine boiled …’, 1968

Mansfield Cumming (photograph reproduced from Secret Service by Christopher Andrew, Heinemann 1985; courtesy Mrs Pippa Temple)

Vernon Kell (© Hulton Getty)

From my wardrobe of exotic Indian clothes, 1969

After my first baby, 1971

The Ring of Five: Burgess (© Popperfoto), Maclean (© Camera Press), Philby (© Camera Press), Blunt (© Popperfoto) and Cairncross (© Rex Features)

Viktor Lazine is expelled, 1981 (© Topham/Press Association)

Georgi Markov (© Topham/Press Association)

The miners’ strike, 1984: at Corton Wood (© Tony Prime/Camera Press)

Arthur Scargill at Orgreave (© Camera Press)

In the garden of Spion Kop, 1978

With John Rimington, 1983

Leaving Spion Kop, 1984

Harriet at Alwyne Villas, 1984

In my check coat, the New Statesman photo (© Rex Features Ltd)

Robert Armstrong on his way to Australia (© David Parker)

The CAZAB kangaroo, cleared for security, 1988

Provisional IRA shooting in Holland, 1988 (© Topham/Press Association)

Vadim V. Bakatin (© Novosti, London)

In Dzerzhinsky Square, 1991

Sightseeing in Moscow, 1991

‘Looking dishevelled on a Saturday morning’ (© Mail on Sunday)

JAK cartoons from the Evening Standard, 9 March and 19 July 1993 (© JAK)

John Major opens the new MI5 building, 1994

Visit to Trinidad with British Gas, 1999

Playing in The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet, 1999

With Michael Howard at the launch of the MI5 booklet, 1993 (© Press Association)

With Jonathan Dimbleby before the Dimbleby Lecture, 1994

With Louis Freeh, director of the FBI, 1996

Cartoon reproduced on page x by Blower, 18 May 2000 (© Evening Standard)

Unless otherwise attributed, all the illustrations are from the author’s collection