1 ‘Gloomy, darkened and lifeless’: Gabriel Gorodetsky, ed., The Maisky Diaries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), 225.
2 ‘One begins to wonder’: Liddell Diaries, 1 December, 1939, KV 4/185.
3 ‘called upon to show’: Liddell Diaries, 30 August, 1939, KV 4/185.
4 ‘old-fashioned liberalism’: Liddell Diaries, 25 May, 1940, KV 4/186.
5 ‘Our tradition is that’: F. H. Hinsley and C. A. G. Simkins, British Intelligence in the Second World War, Vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1990), 57–58.
6 ‘laughable’: Guy Liddell, Memorandum, 1942, KV 4/170.
7 ‘The liberty of the subject’: Liddell Diaries, 25 May, 1940, KV 4/186.
8 ‘I telephoned to Mrs Ramsay’: KV 2/902/62a.
9 ‘If you could help’: Ibid.
10 ‘I made no promise’: Ibid.
11 ‘that instructions have now’: KV 3/393/327c.
12 ‘there was no question’: KV 2/245/179x.