1 ‘a shrewd old bugger’: Dick White to Barrie Penrose, 15 July, 1985, quoted in Bower, Perfect English Spy, 27.
2 ‘makes an excellent impression’: Gill Bennett, Churchill’s Man of Mystery (London: Routledge, 2007), 129.
3 ‘clearly perfectly honest’: Ibid.
4 ‘one of the most’: Knight, Some of My Animals, 29.
5 ‘the best to be had’: Constance Kell, Secret Well Kept, IWM, PP/MCR/120 Reel 1.