Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Preface

Prologue: Full Circle: Saturday, 5 October 1963

  1. Beginnings

  2. Schooldays

  3. Eton Again

  4. Cambridge Undergraduate

  5. Cambridge Postgraduate

  6. The Third Man

  7. London

  8. The BBC

  9. Russian Recruiter

10. Jack and Peter

11. British Agent

12. Meeting Churchill

13. Section D

14. ‘Rather Confidential Work’

15. Bentinck Street

16. Back at the BBC

17. MI5 Agent Handler

18. Propagandist

19. The News Department

20. Relationships

21. Back at the Centre of Power

22. Russian Controls

23. Settling Down

24. The Information Research Department

25. The Far East Department

26. Disciplinary Action

27. Washington

28. Disgrace

29. Sent Home

30. Back in Britain

31. The Final Week

32. The Bird Has Flown

33. The Story Breaks

34. Repercussions

35. Petrov

36. The Missing Diplomats Reappear

37. First Steps

38. ‘I’m Very Glad I Came’

39. An Englishman Abroad

40. Visitors

41. ‘I’m a communist, of course, but I’m a British communist, and I hate Russia!’

42. Summing Up

Appendix

Notes on Sources

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Picture Acknowledgements

Photographs

Index

About the Author

Copyright