Chapter 6: The Freelance Spymaster

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.