1 ‘In dealing with Communism’: KV 4/227/1a.
2 ‘The Russians are very patient’: Derek Tangye, The Way to Minack (Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1979), 247.
3 ‘perhaps the best informed’: KV 3/397/454a.
4 ‘He was convinced’: Harry Smith, interview with author, London, January 2016.
5 ‘Neither Hollis nor I’: Liddell Diaries, 6 October, 1942, KV 4/190.
6 ‘In our insularity’: Trevor-Roper, Secret World, 80–81.
7 ‘bewildered when faced by’: Tangye, Way to Minack, 183.
8 ‘the old cloak and dagger’: Liddell Diaries, 24 October, 1944, KV 4/195.
9 ‘the most successful penetration agent’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 401.
10 ‘part of the furniture’: Security Service Archive quoted in Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 401.
11 ‘Pied Piper’: Quoted in Sisman, John Le Carré, 130.
12 ‘a tweedy, unscalable English’: Le Carré, A Perfect Spy, 273.
13 ‘a handsome English warlord’: Ibid., 277.
14 ‘was country stock’: Ibid., 212.
15 ‘He was as broad as’: Ibid., 72.
16 ‘its retreat into bureaucracy’: Ibid., 214.
17 ‘desk jockeys’: Ibid., 236.
18 ‘like an old grey bird’: Ibid., 306.
19 ‘the grand old man’: Ibid., 295.
20 ‘with his reputation’: Ibid., 214.
21 ‘The Firm should have’: Ibid., 212.
22 ‘They shared a contempt’: Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg (London: Fourth Estate, 1990), 309.
23 ‘some preliminary briefing by us’: KV 2/4116/791a.
24 ‘when it came to “cottages”’: Wheen, Tom Driberg, 311.
25 ‘News that even MI5’: Daily Mail advertisement, Evening News, 19 September, 1956.
26 ‘Driberg has committed’: KV 2/4117/826b.
27 ‘a kind of official urinal’: Quoted in Peter Gill and Mark Phythian, Intelligence in an Insecure World (Cambridge: Polity, 2006), 11.
28 ‘BURGESS BURNS HIS’: Chapman Pincher, ‘Burgess Burns His Boats’, Daily Express, 23 November, 1956.
29 ‘has a dog and a cat’: KV 2/4117/871z.