My parents on their wedding day, 1929
On holiday with my mother and my brother, 1938
Bomb damage, 1941 (© Hulton Archive)
Bulganin and Khrushchev, 1956 (© Press Association)
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)
Received by the President of India, 1968 (© Punjab Photo Service)
Playing in ‘Hotel Paradiso’, 1968
Up the garden path to my first job in MI5
From my wardrobe of exotic Indian clothes, 1969
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
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)
‘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)
Unless otherwise attributed, all the illustrations are from the author’s collection