1 ‘superfluity of voluntary workers’: KV 3/57/3a.
2 ‘the Roman genius’: Quoted in Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5 (London: Heinemann, 1981), 226.
3 ‘persuade’: Peter Martland quoted in Tom Kington, ‘Recruited by MI5’, Guardian, 13 October, 2009.
4 ‘decried my youthful’: Baker White, True Blue, 123.
5 ‘The opinion of Headquarters’: KV 3/57/3a.
6 ‘experience of intelligence work’: HS 9/978/1.
7 ‘self-confident’: Ibid.
8 ‘Information will come to you’: Maxwell Knight to Eric Roberts, 19 November, 1934, Eric Roberts Papers.
9 ‘look of unutterable boredom’: Maxwell Knight, Gunmen’s Holiday (London: Philip Allan, 1935), 94.
10 ‘breeding bears’: Knight, Pets: Usual and Unusual, 79.
11 ‘intensely keen’: HS 9/978/1.