Citations marked KV refer to the Security Service files, PREM to Prime Minister’s Office files and FO to Foreign Office files, all at the National Archives (TNA), Kew.
Epigraphs
‘General slang for members’: spymuseum.org/education-programs/spy-resources/language-of-espionage.
‘If I had to choose between’: The Nation, 16 July 1938.
‘I am relieved’: Nicholas Elliott, Never Judge a Man by his Umbrella (London, 1992), p. 101.
‘So that’: ibid.
‘crossed in love’: ibid., p. 3.
‘the epitome of the English’: ibid., p. 1.
‘effete’: ibid., p. 88.
‘when dealing with foreigners’: ibid., p. 43.
‘Claude was highly embarrassed’: ibid., p. 13.
‘God, Disease and below’: ibid., p. 18.
‘nothing as unpleasant’: ibid., p. 31.
‘sheer hell’: ibid., p. 21.
‘The increased legibility’: ibid., p. 34.
‘How hard should I work’: ibid., p. 80.
‘He strongly advised’: ibid.
‘a triumph over the examiners’: ibid., p. 89.
‘languid, upper-class manner’: Peter Wright, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (London, 1987), p. 174.
‘I could never be a’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 40.
‘obey not the order’: ibid.
‘plug ugly’: ibid., p. 15.
‘was no more or less’: ibid.
‘inability to get down’: ibid., p. 91.
‘There was no serious’: Nicholas Elliott, With My Little Eye: Observations Along the Way (Norwich, 1993), p. 16.
‘in the diplomatic service’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 93.
‘opportunity to see’: ibid., p. 99.
‘We discreetly poked’: ibid.
‘a singularly foolhardy’: ibid.
‘The Führer is feted’: cited by James Holland, Daily Mail, 18 April 2009.
‘I am tempted’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 100.
‘pick the bastard off’: E. Butler, Mason-Mac: The life of Lieutenant-General Sir Noel Mason-MacFarlane (London, 1972), p. 75.
‘strongly urged’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 100.
‘My mind was easily’: ibid., p. 101.
‘just as soon as it feels’: Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (London, 2009), p. 195.
‘the best and most ingenious’: ibid., p. 196.
‘priceless intelligence’: ibid.
‘I was really helping’: ibid.
‘The English are hopeless’: ibid., p. 204.
‘sacrificing himself’: ibid.
‘Klop was a man’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 149.
‘complicated man’: ibid., p. 102.
‘His motivation was solely’: ibid.
‘Is Hitler going to start’: ibid.
‘On present plans’: ibid.
‘startling statement’: ibid.
‘always displayed’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 246.
‘by the autumn of 1939’: Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949 (London, 2010), p. 385.
‘it could only be’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 242.
‘brilliant linguist’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 103.
‘an ostentatious ass’: ibid.
‘overthrow the present regime’: p. 382.
‘I have a hunch’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 244.
‘the big man himself’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 384.
‘No one was in sight’: ibid.
‘The next moment’: Sigismund Payne Best, The Venlo Incident (London, 1950), p. 17.
‘At one stroke’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 103.
‘able to construct’: ibid.
‘intense ambition’: ibid.
‘possibility of winning’: ibid.
‘In the long run’: arcre.com/archive/sis/venlo
‘selling everything to Moscow’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 262.
‘as disastrous as it was’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 103.
‘Oh what a tangled web’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 11.
‘Information has been’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 106.
‘It soon became apparent’: ibid.
‘We’re in the final’: ibid., p. 109.
‘normality and calmness’: ibid.
‘never occurred to me’: ibid.
‘England was gripped’: ibid., p. 111.
‘give evidence of what’: ibid.
‘feeling of camaraderie’: ibid., p. 110.
‘My only moment’: ibid.
‘Basil Fisher was killed’: ibid.
‘He was the sort of man’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Phillip Knightley, The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby (London, 1988), p. 119.
‘halting stammered witticisms’: Graham Greene, foreword to Kim Philby, My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy (London, 1968), p. xx.
‘great pluck’: E. G. de Caux to Ralph Deakin, 14 January 1938, The Times Archives.
‘Many express disappointment’: The Times, 17 November 1939.
‘Camel-hair overcoat’: expenses claim letter, The Times Archives.
‘dropped a few hints’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxviii.
‘A person like you’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 79.
‘We’ll figure something’: ibid.
‘war work’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 9.
‘intensely likeable’: ibid.
‘I began to show off’: ibid., p. 10.
‘nothing recorded against’: ibid.
‘I was asked about him’: Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville, Philby: The Long Road to Moscow (London, 1973), p. 135.
‘set Europe ablaze’: Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years: Memoirs, 1931–1945 (London, 1957), p. 366.
‘I escaped to London’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 63.
‘In those days’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 111.
‘He had an ability’: ibid., p. 183.
‘the inherent evil’: ibid., p. 105.
‘very rarely discussed’: ibid., p. 183.
‘the English batting’: ibid.
‘Indeed he did not strike me’: ibid.
‘pose of amiable’: Hugh R. Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason, and Secret Services (London, 1968), p. 42.
‘by and large pretty stupid’: Christopher Andrew, Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (London, 1985), p. 249.
‘An exceptional person’: ibid.
‘clarity of mind’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 183.
‘He was much more’: ibid.
‘The old Secret Service’: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, vol. II (London, 1973), p. 136.
‘slouching about in sweaters’: ibid.
‘You’d drop in to see’: Kim Philby, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1988, in Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 84.
‘atmosphere of haute cuisine’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 35.
‘out of fun rather’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 184.
‘To start with we always’: Dennis Wheatley, The Deception Planners: My Secret War (London, 1980), p. 30.
‘for an hour’: ibid.
‘He was a formidable’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 183.
‘serious drinkers should never’: ibid.
‘violent headache’: ibid.
‘It was an organisation’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 22.
They spoke the same language’: interview with Mark Elliott, 11 November 2013.
‘negate, confuse, deceive’: Leo D. Carl, The International Dictionary of Intelligence (McLean Virginia, 1990), p. 83.
‘with a knowledge of Spain’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 35.
‘The Old Boy network’: ibid., p. 37.
‘purblind, disastrous’: Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair, p. 37.
‘As an intelligence officer’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 46.
‘suspicious and bristling’: ibid.
‘personal contacts with’: ibid., p. 43.
‘He was a bit of a communist’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 135.
‘active pursuit and liquidation’: Anthony Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood: H. St John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century (London, 1995), p. 276.
‘Aileen belonged to that class’: Flora Solomon and Barnet Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street: The Memoirs of Flora Solomon (London, 1984), p. 172.
‘He found an avid listener’: ibid.
‘She was highly intelligent’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 182.
‘parental pride’: ibid., p. 187.
‘long Sunday lunches’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War, p. xx.
‘small loyalties’: ibid.
‘He had something about him’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 133.
‘merry band’: Desmond Bristow with Bill Bristow, A Game of Moles: The Deceptions of an MI6 Officer (London, 1993), p. 17.
‘a purchaser of skunk excrement’: ibid., p. 18.
‘The sense of dedication’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 276.
‘No one could have’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War, p. xix.
‘a gentle-looking man’: Bristow, A Game of Moles, pp. 262–3.
‘cosiness’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 63.
‘It was not difficult’: ibid.
‘a good cricket umpire’: Felix Cowgill, interview with Anthony Cave Brown, 1983, in Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 275.
‘calculating ambition’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 119.
‘single-mindedness’: ibid.
‘There was something’: Hugh Trevor-Roper, interview by Graham Turner, Daily Telegraph, 28 January 2003.
‘It was not long’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 53.
‘to good use in disrupting’: ibid., p. 55.
‘mingle with the crowd’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 387.
‘party-goer’s image’: ibid.
‘This is the last time’: Charles Whiting, Ghost Front: the Ardennes before the Battle of the Bulge (London, 2002), pp. 203–4.
‘an operational disaster’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 52.
‘virtually at will’: ibid., p. 63.
‘contacts with other SIS’: ibid.
‘fire-watching nights’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War, p. xx.
‘bulging briefcase’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 63.
‘longhand, in neat, tiny writing’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 118.
‘MR NICHOLAS ELLIOTT’: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives (London, 1998), p. 311.
‘Something I owe’: Rudyard Kipling, Kim (London, 1994), Chapter 8.
‘penetration agent working’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxix.
‘the exquisite relish’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 291.
‘My ambition is fame’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 21.
‘constantly aware of his father’s’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 133.
‘He should always’: ibid., p. 134.
‘sudden conversion’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxx.
‘the inner fortress’: ibid., p. xxix.
‘I left the university’: ibid., p. xxxi.
‘I can hardly see him’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 183.
‘devote his life to the’: ibid.
‘at a crisis point’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 40.
‘tremendous little sexpot’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 159.
‘Actually quite warm’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 168.
‘Even though the basis’: Genrikh Borovik, ed. Phillip Knightly, The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby (London, 1994), p. 22.
‘I do hope Kim gets a job’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 162.
‘Excess can always’: ibid., p. 137.
‘man of decisive importance’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 169.
‘man of considerable’: ibid.
‘He was a marvellous man’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 29.
‘important and interesting work’: ibid., p. 25.
‘I trusted him’: ibid., p. 27.
‘prophet of the better orgasm’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 170.
‘a poor man’s sexual performance’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 163.
‘One does not look twice’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxxii.
‘Of all the passions’: C. S. Lewis, The Inner Ring, Memorial Lecture at King’s College, University of London, in 1944, collected in Mere Christianity (London, 2012).
‘My future looked romantic’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 28.
‘By background, education’: ibid.
‘The anti-fascist movement’: ibid.
‘real and palpable way’: ibid.
‘like poetry’: ibid., p. 33.
‘We have recruited the son’: ibid., p. 39.
‘What are his prospects’: ibid., p. 40.
‘the most interesting’: ibid., p. 52.
‘refers to his parents’: ibid., p. 147.
‘his marvellous education’: ibid., p. 31.
‘the remoter open spaces’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxix.
‘His wife was his first lover’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 148.
‘I sometimes felt’: ibid., p. 33.
‘I was certain that my life’: ibid., p. 31.
‘constant encouragement’: ibid.
‘Söhnchen comes from’: ibid., p. 43.
‘It’s amazing that’: ibid., p. 55.
‘Once you’re inside’: ibid., p. 56.
‘He has many friends’: ibid., p. 43.
‘profoundly repulsive’: ibid., p. 59.
‘in the eyes of my friends’: ibid.
‘how difficult it is to leave’: ibid.
‘It seems unlikely that’: ibid., pp. 52–3.
‘The people I could’: ibid., p. 46.
‘very serious and aloof’: ibid., p. 44.
‘Sonny has high praise’: ibid.
‘Very smart’: ibid., p. 44.
‘Do you think that’: ibid., p. 48.
‘I lost my faith’: Elisabeth K. Poretsky, Our Own People: A Memoir of ‘Ignace Reiss’ and His Friends (Oxford, 1969), p. 214.
‘shiny grey complexion’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 180.
‘an inspirational figure’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 194.
‘Both of them were intelligent’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 174.
‘handles our money’: ibid.
‘We have great difficulty’: ibid., p. 88.
‘unit strengths and locations’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 71.
‘a royalist of the most’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 111.
‘I would be lying’: ibid., pp. 111–12.
‘He works with great’: ibid., p. 129.
‘obviously been in the thick’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 260.
‘doing a very dangerous job’: ibid., p. 173.
‘important work for peace’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 169.
‘he could always’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.
‘Even if he had been able’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 89.
‘They are very pleased’: ibid., p. 95.
‘a decent chap’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 56.
‘I know that as a former priest’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 183.
‘infinite patience’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxix.
‘intelligent understanding’: ibid.
‘painstaking advice’: ibid.
‘marvellous men’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 29.
‘What’s going to happen’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 71.
‘activity in England’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 185.
‘I had been told in pressing’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxviii.
‘Where is the Café’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 143.
‘extraordinarily valuable’: ibid., p. 151
‘the appropriate hands’: ibid...the appropriate hands’: ibid..
Chapter 4: Boo, Boo, Baby, I’m a Spy
‘true sense of values’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 178.
‘His intellectual equipment’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 109.
‘an utter shit’: cited in Anthony Read and David Fisher, Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies (London, 1985), p. 361.
‘Vivian was long past’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 48.
‘He would murmur’: ibid., p. 69.
‘But behind the façade’: ibid.
‘The rewards of such unorthodoxy’: ibid., p. 70.
‘the only man in The Hotel’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 205.
‘golden lads’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 470.
‘You know as well as I do’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 490.
‘in the hurly-burly’: Guy Liddell, Diaries, KV4/466.
‘a pleasant personality’: ibid.
‘For every lead that produced’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 48.
‘monstrous’: ibid.
‘a model of economy’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 183.
‘I had the advantage’: ibid., p. 110.
‘an interesting and promising’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 167.
‘especially valuable’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 64.
‘few social graces’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels, p. 312.
‘inclined towards inertia’: ibid.
‘weakness [for] women’: ibid.
‘the weak link’: ibid., p. 313.
‘fat briefcase’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 48.
‘Her political views’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 208.
‘difficult, exhausting’: ibid., p. 28.
‘twinges of panic’: ibid., p. 203.
‘a young Englishman’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 267.
‘We told him he must’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 202.
‘About 58, 5 feet 6 inches’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels, p. 298.
‘There aren’t any’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. xii.
‘tenth on the list’: ibid., p. 167.
‘no Soviet citizens’: ibid., p. 210.
‘obvious absurdity’: ibid., p. 201.
‘highly suspicious’: ibid., p. 200.
‘dubious’: ibid., p. 196.
‘tested and retested’: ibid., p. 204.
‘upside down’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 61.
‘to discuss the mystery’: ibid.
‘far outside the normal scope’: ibid.
‘another flood’: ibid.
‘Luck played an enormous’: ibid., p. 128.
‘cloistered’: ibid., p. 72.
‘those who sit at desks’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 15.
‘anxious to get away’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 111.
‘All foreigners are bloody’: ibid., p. 16.
‘I was delighted’: ibid., p. 111.
‘who was being sent’: ibid., p. 112.
‘well-stocked bar’: ibid.
‘the tattiest army officer’: ibid., p. 113.
‘the shortage of contraceptives’: ibid.
‘managed to alleviate’: ibid.
‘roving brothel’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 78.
‘two lonely Germans’: ibid.
‘delight’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 117.
‘pained tolerance’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 418.
‘great ability and energy’: ibid., p. 419.
‘one of the great espionage’: ibid., p. 417.
‘Everyone was well informed’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 122.
‘I’m involved in a dangerous game’: Barry Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues (New York, 1989), p. xvii.
‘not a kid glove affair’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 420.
‘crammed from top’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 120.
‘extremely erudite’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 73.
‘Its clientele’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 122.
‘white coloured skin’: ibid.
‘a ferocious dry martini’: ibid., p. 123.
‘spoke excellent English’: ibid.
‘the capacity for friendship’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 15.
‘A large amount’: ibid.
‘One particularly remarkable man’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 117.
‘a most unattractive’: ibid., p. 130.
‘operating a clandestine’: ibid.
‘was not altogether’: ibid.
‘more people involved’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 50.
‘All were kept under’: ibid., p. 51.
‘schoolboyish’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 109.
‘Bars, beards and blondes’: ibid.
‘the worst claret’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 177.
‘After three of Ellie’s’: ibid., p. 123.
‘hoping he didn’t mind’: ibid. p.126.
‘two minutes from MI5’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 71.
‘the frowsty old’: Malcolm Muggeridge, book review of A Very Limited Edition, Esquire, May 1966, p. 84.
‘a notably bewildered’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 74.
‘a bunch of amateur bums’: ibid., p. 75.
‘They lost no opportunity’: ibid., p. 74.
‘pain in the neck’: ibid., p. 76.
‘formative years’: Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton – CIA’s Master Spy Hunter (London, 1991), p. 13.
‘more English than’: ibid., p. 12.
‘a mysterious person’: ibid., p. 13.
‘What a miracle’: Michael Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence (Boston, 2008), p. 83.
‘arts and crafts’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 298.
‘I do remember’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 49.
‘earned my respect’: Philby, My Silent War, pp. 150–1.
‘Philby may have felt’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 49.
‘Philby was one of Angleton’s’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 118.
‘Our European friends’: W. Bryher, The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940–1946 (New York, 1972), pp. ix-x.
‘as if they contained the secret of the Trinity’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 299.
‘restless appetite for organizing’: William Empson to James Angleton, 19 February 1940, quoted in Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 22.
‘extremely brilliant’: ibid., p. 45.
‘Once I met Philby’: Joseph J.Trento, The Secret History of the CIA (New York, 2001), p. 37.
‘an almost total moron’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels, p. 311.
‘We had achieved’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 78.
‘in all intelligence matters’: ibid., p. 80.
‘beginning to make a career’: ibid., p. 79.
‘I regarded my SIS’: ibid., p. xxix.
‘incomprehensible’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 272.
‘A straight penetration’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxix.
‘He is lying to us’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. xiv.
‘He was so completely’: Yuri Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller (New York, 1995), p. 201.
‘in such a manner’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 218.
‘single-front struggle’: ibid., p. xi.
‘modest bit towards’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 128.
‘Moody and nervous’: Vermehren file, TNA KV 2/956.
‘The city is riddled’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 224.
‘specialised in making Britons’: ibid.
‘I remembered him vividly’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 135.
‘small roundish man’: ibid.
‘instantly dismissed’: ibid.
‘The information obtained’: ibid., p. 133.
‘If he had not been a spy’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 164.
‘penchant for involving’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 120.
‘The names of the Azerbaijanis’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 227.
‘the Arab cause depended’: ibid., p. 225.
‘Twelve-land, Twelve-land’: ibid., p. 201.
Chapter 6: The German Defector
‘unfit to represent’: Erich Vermehren, obituary by Richard Bassett, The Independent, 3 May 2005.
‘Erich Vermehren?’: Richard Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery (London, 2006), p. 280.
‘I had a sense’: ibid.
‘signs of instability’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 315.
‘a highly strung’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 504.
‘intensely anti-Nazi’: ibid.
‘fully convinced’: ibid.
‘the complete Abwehr setup’: ibid.
‘quantity of detailed information’: ibid.
‘it would not be long’: ibid.
‘a hell of flap’: ibid., p. 505.
‘lest his disappearance’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 232.
‘he was given breakfast’: ibid.
‘swamped by an invasion’: ibid.
‘gravely prejudiced the activities’: ibid., p. 229.
‘exceedingly tedious’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 126.
‘They are so God-awful conscientious’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 42.
‘I don’t mind telling you’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 127.
‘obstacle race with frequent jumps’: ibid.
‘German-Turkish intelligence’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 228.
‘The twenty-four-year-old attaché’: Associated Press, 9 February 1945.
‘If an enemy alien’: Liddell, Diaries, KV4/466.
‘outstanding blow’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 504.
‘exploded’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 315.
‘hardly surprising given’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief, p. 282.
‘thrown into a state of confusion’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 505.
‘consummate skill and sympathy’: ibid.
‘dine out’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.
‘formidably impressed both by’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 81. There is some confusion over where Elliott and Angleton first met. Elliott recalled that Angleton came to stay with him Switzerland in 1946, but it seems more likely, according to his family and other sources, that their first encounter was in London a year earlier, during the period of the Vermehren debriefing.
‘Beneath the rather sinister’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 81.
‘At that time, secrets’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 62.
‘Sit down, I’d like to have’ to’Because the Chief told him’: Elliott, My Little Eye, pp. 17–18.
‘For centuries the Office’: Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935–1990 (London, 1995), p. 85.
‘of all their contacts’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief, p. 23.
‘leading Catholic activists’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 110.
‘could have formed the backbone’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 328.
‘All had been deported’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief, p. 23.
‘Because Moscow had decided’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 110.
‘drive against the Catholic Church’: TNA KV 4/469.
‘I was responsible for the deaths’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 128.
Chapter 7: The Soviet Defector
‘We’ve been penetrated’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 66.
‘the next enemy’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 92.
‘professional handling of any cases’: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev (eds), Triplex: Secrets from the Cambridge Five (Yale, 2009), p. 115.
‘provided you do not do anything’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 566.
‘I must do everything’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 94.
‘Cowgill must go’: ibid.
‘great warmth’: ibid., p. 100.
‘the idea was his own’: ibid.
‘At one stroke’: Robert Cecil in Christopher Andrew and D. Dilks (eds), The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century (London, 1984), p. 179.
‘The new appointment’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 236.
‘jovial, kindly man’: ibid., p. 177.
‘a splendid professional’: ibid.
‘unburden’: ibid.
‘I must thank you’: ibid., p. 237.
‘After the gloom of London’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 141.
‘not only our best source on Germany’: Tony Paterson, ‘Germany finally honours the “traitor” spy’, Independent, 25 September 2004.
‘Communists and communism’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 49.
‘over one thousand enemy’: Ted Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster (New York, 1999), p. 257.
‘heavily dependent on Philby’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 353.
‘enigmatic wraith’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 57.
‘haunted the streets’: ibid., p. 59.
‘You would sit on a sofa’: David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War’s Most Important Agents (Guilford, CT, 2003), p. 18.
‘perhaps the ablest’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 105.
‘Was it freedom’: ibid., p. 108.
‘Not one of them’: ibid.
‘Stanley was a bit agitated’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 238.
‘I tried to calm him down’: ibid.
‘prank’: Gordon Brook-Shepherd, The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors (London, 1988), p. 41.
‘deplorably nervous state’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 119.
‘less than rock steady’: ibid.
‘obviously been preparing’: ibid., p. 120.
‘I consider this sum’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 525.
‘I know, for instance’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 344; Wright, Spycatcher, p. 281.
‘No one’s going to turn’: Knightley, The Master Spy, pp. 135–6.
‘copies of the material provided’: Edward Harrison, The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer (Exeter, 2012), p. 177.
‘something of the greatest importance’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 121.
‘That evening I worked late’: ibid.
‘Don’t worry, old man’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 178.
‘Someone fully briefed’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 121.
‘meeting Volkov’: ibid., p. 120.
‘work the night before’: ibid., p. 122.
‘Don’t you read my contract’: Alistair Horne, But What do you Actually Do? A Literary Vagabondage (London, 2011), p. 186.
‘with obvious relief’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 122.
‘diplomatic couriers’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 344.
‘this might be the last memorable’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 118.
‘Sorry, old man’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 138.
‘inexplicable delays and evasions’: Harrison, The Young Kim Philby, p. 178.
‘I thought he was just irresponsible’: ibid.
‘It wasn’t Volkov’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 126.
‘She said he was out’: ibid.
‘I asked for Volkov’: ibid., p. 127.
‘It’s no bloody good’: ibid.
‘The case was dead’: ibid.
‘on stretchers and heavily sedated’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 344.
‘brutal interrogation’: ibid., p. 345.
‘a very narrow squeak’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 118.
‘nasty piece of work’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 138.
‘deserved what he got’: ibid.
‘extremely unlikely’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 525.
‘indiscretion in the British Embassy’: ibid.
‘test the waters’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 365.
‘expressed sympathy’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 107.
‘the effect his work’: Trento, The Secret History of the CIA, p. 38.
‘felt guilty about it’: ibid.
‘He helped me to think’: ibid.
‘worse for wear’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 365.
‘warned the Centre’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 346.
‘without reserve’: ibid.
‘Stanley informed me’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 242.
‘Stanley is an exceptionally valuable’: ibid., p. 244.
‘conscientious work for over’: ibid., p. 249.
‘I looked around’: Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair, p. 42.
‘I believed we were’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 3.
‘The continuation of a civilization’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 101.
‘I’m in it for the belly-laughs’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.
‘a form of defence mechanism’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 180.
‘Verbal abuse is not’: ibid., p. 61.
‘the British tradition’: ibid., p. 111.
‘One of the joys of living’: ibid., p. 150.
‘oldest and closest friends’: ibid., p.151.
‘British skiing aristocracy’: Peter Lunn obituary, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2011.
‘the ideal person’: Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations (London, 2001), p. 418.
‘attempting to piece together’: ibid.
‘superficial existence’: ibid., p. 408.
‘unique opportunity’: ibid.
‘blueprint for communist’: ibid., p. 419.
‘lifelong communist activists’: ibid.
‘not so much an ideology’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 69.
‘like a British actor’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 21.
‘the cadaver’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 17.
‘The guy was just’: ibid.
‘Secret Documents of Vatican Diplomacy’: Catholic Herald, ‘Author of “Secret Documents” Sentenced’, 30 July 1948.
‘how vulnerable even’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 50.
‘the Byzantine possibilities’: ibid.
‘crawling around on his hands’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 21.
‘His real love was unravelling’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 81.
‘We were … damned good friends’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 71.
‘Stanley reported that’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 241.
‘What a very nice chap’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 367.
‘happy ending’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 210.
‘Kim, a happy and devoted father’: ibid.
‘seemed to belong to the misty, juvenile past’: ibid., p. 172.
‘Awkward of her gestures’: ibid., p. 169.
‘incapable of disloyalty’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 208.
‘all round experience’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 142.
‘profoundly sorry’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/468.
‘main southern base’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 130.
‘Kim gave a large farewell party’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/468.
‘given permission to play’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 382.
‘a white Russian’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 133.
‘a fairly free hand’: ibid.
‘start weaving a spy network’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 251.
‘energetic enthusiast’: Dorril, MI6, p. 210.
‘We knew in advance’: ibid., p. 212.
‘the very mechanism through’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 91.
‘He was totally consumed’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 23.
‘We rediscovered each other’: ibid.
‘I’ve got sitting in my Jeep’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 384.
‘He was both efficient and safe’: ibid., p. 380.
‘willing to back them’: Dorril, MI6, p. 211.
‘energetic lads’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 252.
‘tip-and-run’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 140.
‘alert and intelligent’: ibid., p. 143.
‘notably subdued’: ibid.
‘It was essential’: ibid.
‘striding through a sparse wood’: ibid.
‘The boys weren’t bad’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 252.
‘in chains’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 185.
‘dying of some mysterious ailment’: ibid., p. 185.
‘charming woman and loving wife’: ibid.
‘It was an intense affront’: ibid.
‘the marriage steadily deteriorated’: ibid.
‘It was James Jesus Angleton’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 386.
‘At one stroke’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 145.
‘unlimited possibilities’: ibid.
‘Who am I supposed to work’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 257.
‘I was lunched at many’: My Silent War, p. 146.
‘One side is open’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 261.
‘chain reaction that would’: Nicholas Bethell, The Great Betrayal: The Untold Story of Kim Philby’s Greatest Coup (London, 1978), p. 41.
‘formal British and American’: ibid., p. 57.
‘There was no question’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 56.
‘all absolutely stark naked’: David de Crespigny Smiley, Interview No. 10340, Imperial War Museum, London, 1988.
‘We were looking only’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 56.
‘that the communists’: ibid., p. 83.
‘Brothers, you’re all going to be killed!’: ibid.
‘fascist terrorists’: ibid.
‘memorable send-off’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 148.
‘a private club afloat’: http://cruiselinehistory.com
‘disgustingly rich friend’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 148.
‘I began to feel that’: ibid.
‘one of the few glories’: ibid., p. 149.
‘admired him as a “professional”’: Gordon Corera, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (London, 2012), p. 64.
‘I was brought up in England’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 13.
‘Things have gone wrong’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 84.
‘Who are you?’: ibid., p. 87.
‘We said we were’: ibid., p. 141.
‘The sun has risen’: ibid., p. 142.
‘several Albanian civilians’: ibid., p. 110.
‘disappointing’: ibid., p. 96.
‘judged by wartime standards to be acceptable’: Dorril, MI6, p. 389.
‘it would be wrong to abandon’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 97.
‘was the one who made’: Dorril, MI6, p. 385.
‘Philby was a great charmer’: Corera, MI6, p. 64.
‘He had charm’: James McCargar, writing as Christopher Felix, ‘A Second Third Man’, New York Times Book Review, 26 May 1968.
‘undoubtedly devoted to his children’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 187.
‘by any objective standard, a dreadful man’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 162.
‘a former FBI man … sacked for drunkenness’: ibid., p. 152.
‘a cold, fishy eye’: ibid., p. 180.
‘bumbling’: ibid., p. 164.
‘puddingy’: ibid.
‘He entertained a lot of Americans’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 101.
‘They were long’: The Cost of Treachery, BBC TV, 30 October 1984.
‘suggestive of complicity’: James McCargar, writing as Christopher Felix, ‘A Second Third Man’.
‘suggest drifting out’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 155.
‘Intelligence officers talk trade’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 399.
‘please one party’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 150.
‘The sky was the limit’: Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley, Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation (London, 1968), p. 211.
‘the driving force’: ibid.
‘I got a few nibbles’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 132.
‘It was the belief’: ibid.
‘habit’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 151.
‘He demonstrated regularly’: ibid.
‘Our close association’: ibid.
‘used to pride himself’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 47.
‘Our discussions ranged’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 151.
‘Both CIA and SIS’: ibid., p. 152.
‘Many of Harvey’s lobsters’: ibid.
‘During those long, boozy lunches’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, pp. 46–7.
‘Everything was written up’: ibid., p. 44.
‘chaotic’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 420.
‘We’ll get it right next time’: Corera, MI6, p. 67.
‘We had agents parachuting in’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 47.
‘the timing and geographical’: Philby, My Silent War, p.159.
‘I do not know what happened’: ibid.
‘We knew that they would’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 137.
‘The boys in London imagined’: ibid., p. 146.
‘tied to the back of a Jeep’: ibid., p. 150.
‘Our famous radio game’: Corera, MI6, p. 62.
‘It was obvious there was’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 104.
‘Our security was very’: Corera, MI6, p. 63.
‘well and truly blown’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 105.
‘Albania would fall from the Soviet’: Nicholas Bethell, ‘Profits and Losses of Treachery’, Independent, 6 September 1994.
‘There is little question’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 212.
‘He gave us vital information’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 123.
‘The agents we sent into Albania’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 128.
‘gave Philby over drinks’: Corera, MI6, p. 65.