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INDEX
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A4 (MI5 surveillance unit), 304–5
Abraham Lincoln Battalion (Spanish Civil War), 74
Abyssinian crisis (1935), 67–8
Acheson, Dean, 188, 205, 328–9
AEC see Atomic Energy Commission
Akhbar Al-Yom (newspaper), 242
Akhmerov, Itzhak, 176
Akron, University of, 179
Alexandria, 231, 259
Allen, George, 183
Alsop, Joseph, 162, 178
Amis, Sir Kingsley, 364
Angleton, James, 329
Anglo-German Fellowship, 50
Anglo-German Trade Gazette, 50
Anstee, Dame Margaret, 278–9, 319, 326
Anvil, Operation (proposed Allied Mediterranean landings), 146–7, 218, 277
Apostles (Cambridge University conversation society), 38, 307
appeasement, 89–90, 95, 100, 140–41
Apresyan, Stephen, 144
Arab–Israeli War, 214–15
Archer, Jane, 106–7, 172
Argentina, 317, 319
Arlington Hall, Virginia (US Army Signal Intelligence Service headquarters), 136, 159, 179–80, 218, 232–3; see also “Venona” operation
Armistice Day Riots (1933), 39–40, 41
Army and Navy Club, 301
Ashton, Sir Frederick, 261
Asquith, Herbert (later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 10
Astor, David, 241
Athenaeum Club, 34
atom spies see Fuchs, Klaus; May, Alan Nunn; Pontecorvo, Bruno
Atomic Energy Commission (United States; AEC), 188, 190–92, 236
atomic and nuclear energy/weapons development, 185–92; Britain, 172, 186–90, 263–4; Canada, 170–71, 189–90; Soviet Union, 173, 189, 191–2, 231–2, 235–6; United States, 117, 180, 186–8, 189–92, 202, 215, 233–4, 236; see also nuclear war, threat of
Attlee, Clement (later 1st Earl Attlee), 64, 161, 208, 280, 316, 325
Auden, W.H., 13, 14, 16, 20, 23, 41
Austen, Jane, 4, 320, 338
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, 336–7
Ayer, Sir A.J. “Freddie,” 261, 301, 308
Baghdad, 203
Baku, oil fields, 103
Baldwin, Stanley (later 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley), 8–9, 19, 37, 72, 76
Balfour, Frances, Lady, 193, 195
Balfour, Sir John, 193, 239, 292
Barbarossa, Operation (Nazi invasion of Soviet Union; 1941), 129–30, 131–2, 134–5, 360
Barclay, Sir Roderick, 145, 296
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 9, 12
Barron, Samuel, 276, 297
Bartlett, Vernon, 97
baseball, 141, 194
Bassett, Evelyn (earlier Burgess), 56
Bassett, John, 342–3
Bath (parliamentary constituency), 10
Bayswater, Southwick Place, 11
Beauvallon, France, 344
Beauvoir, Simone de, 109
Beggendorf, Germany, 335
Belfrage, Cedric, 228–9
Belgian Congo, 186
Belgium, 116, 186, 190
Belgrade, British Embassy, 335
Bell, Clive, 131
Bell, Julian, 26–7, 38, 39, 74
Bell, Quentin, 307
Bell, Vanessa, 131
Bell, Walter, 194–5
Bennett, Alan, The History Boys, 20n
Benson, A.C., 15
Bensusan-Butt, David, 27
Bentley, Elizabeth, 174–7, 198, 216
Beria, Lavrenti, 126, 157, 350, 361
Berkeley, HMS, 121
Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948–49), 202
Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 148–9
Bermuda, 131, 178
Bern, Switzerland, 338, 339
Bernadotte, Folke, assassination, 207
Berthoud, Sir Eric, 17
Bête Humaine, La (film; 1938), 95–6
Bevin, Ernest, 161, 184, 200, 278
Bey, Fadel, 242
Biarritz, 121
Bicycle Thieves (film; 1948), 251
Birkenhead, F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of, 122n
Bizet, Georges, Carmen, 85
Blackshirts (British Union of Fascists), 59, 73, 74
Blake, Anthony, 44–5, 271, 316
Blake, George, 82, 375–6, 378
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 138
Bletchley Park (wartime Government Code & Cypher School), 133, 136
Blitz, 127–8, 130, 131
Blunt, (Sir) Anthony: family background and early life, 56, 210; character and sexuality, 271, 279; at Cambridge, 27, 31, 38; relationship with Guy Burgess, 31, 38, 159, 303; recruitment as Soviet agent, 62–3, 68, 70; and recruitment of Cairncross, 50; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 101; works for MI5, 129, 132, 133, 134, 137, 159; wartime espionage, 129, 132–3, 134, 160; wartime life in London, 130; response to Nazi invasion of Soviet Union, 132; leaves MI5 and resumes art history career, 279; material passed to Soviets, 279; meets Burgess on recall to England, 303; and Burgess and Maclean defections, 4, 307, 310n, 313; exposure, 377; unpublished memoir, 271
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 210
Bonham Carter, Cressida (later Ridley), 57, 60
Bonham Carter, Laura (later Lady Grimond), 57, 58–9, 61, 261
Bonham Carter, Mark (later Baron Bonham-Carter), 343
Bonham Carter, Lady Violet (later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury), 57, 59, 64, 343, 367
Bordeaux, 118, 121
Bouverie, B.P. “Barty,” 310–311
Bowes and Bowes (bookshop), 364
Bowes-Lyon, Sir David, 151
Boyle, Kay, 110
Braine, John, 364
Brannerman, Jacqueline, 246
Brewis, John, 203
Brezhnev, Leonid, 377
Brinton, John, 224–5
British Association of Scientific Workers, 172
British Foreign Policy since Suez (DM), 89, 263, 362, 368, 370–71
British Union of Fascists (Blackshirts), 59, 73, 74
Britten, Benjamin (later Baron Britten), 14
Brooks’s Club, 261
Browder, Earl, 85, 175
Brown, Mary, 227
Buhler, Robert, 285
Bulganin, Nikolai, 356, 359
Bulgaria, 182
Burgess, Guy: family background and early life, 34, 56; appearance, character and sexuality, 34–5, 38, 62, 160, 197, 264–5, 279, 307; at Cambridge, 31, 34–5, 38, 39, 270; friendship with Kim Philby, 34; relationship with Anthony Blunt, 31, 38, 159; DM first meets, 34–5; life in London, 58, 60; recruitment as Soviet agent, 62–3, 70; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 100–101; wartime espionage, 126, 160; wartime life in London, 130; brief placement in Foreign Office News Department, 264; works for Hector McNeil, 208, 264; in Foreign Office Far Eastern Department, 226; post-war life in London, 60, 261, 264–5; on leave in Gibraltar and Tangier, 264; posting to Washington Embassy, 265, 273, 286, 295; recalled to London, 295, 298, 299, 303, 320; last days in England, 303, 305, 306–7, 310, 31
3–14, 316; plans for defection, 313–14; day of disappearance, 4–5, 319–22, 337–8; reaches France, 5, 322, 337–8; travels to Prague via Bern, 338–9; arrives in Moscow, 359; life in Soviet Union, 360–62, 368, 377; reappears in Moscow and issues public statement, 357–8, 359, 367–8; declining health, 372; death, 372–3
Burrows, Sir Bernard, 206, 207, 208
Bush, Vannevar, 188
Butler, Sir Nevile, 319
Byrnes, James F., 162, 182–3, 184, 188, 199
Byron, George, 6th Baron, 331
Cadman, Sir John (later 1st Baron Cadman), 64
Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 131–2; committee of enquiry into Foreign Office security, 347
Caffrey, Jefferson, 209, 246, 248
Cairncross, John: family background and early life, 56, 65, 77; character, 56n, 78; at Cambridge, 31; joins Foreign Office, 64–5, 77–8; recruitment as Soviet agent, 50, 70, 78; transferred to Treasury, 78; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 100; wartime espionage, 129, 133, 160; returns to Treasury after war, 278, 279
Cairo, 212–13; British Embassy, 203, 206, 209–210; Esbekieh Gardens, 222; Gezireh, 210–211, 222; Metropolitan Hotel, 247; see also Helouan
Calvinism, 37, 44, 56, 82, 370
Cambridge, 307, 364; Armistice Day Riots (1933), 39–40, 41
Cambridge Left, 40–41
Cambridge Review, 27
Cambridge Union debates, 26, 33
Cambridge University, 30; Communism at, 26–9, 31–3, 38–9; see also Girton College; Newnham College; Trinity College; Trinity Hall
Cambridge University Socialist Society (CUSS), 25, 32, 38–9
Campbell, Colin, 213
Campbell, Mary (née Ormsby-Gore) see Mayall, Mary, Lady
Campbell, Lady Mary (née St Clair Erskine; earlier Dunn), 262, 366; on day of DM’s disappearance, 3, 317–18
Campbell, Robin: friendship with DM, 57, 88, 95, 261; marriages, 58, 223; on day of DM’s disappearance, 3, 317, 318
Campbell, Sir Ronald Hugh, 57, 119, 124, 223, 282–3
Campbell, Sir Ronald Ian, 157–8, 209, 211–12, 221, 222, 226, 237, 246, 247–8
Canada, 169–71, 189; see also Ottawa; Quebec
Canberra, 336–7
Cannes, 335
Cardiff, 9
Carey Foster, George: head of Foreign Office security, 222, 301, 319; and “Venona” decrypts evidence, 229, 283; and Walter Krivitsky’s partial identifications, 238–9; and DM’s psychoanalysis following breakdown, 256; and Guy Burgess’s posting to Washington, 265; and security services’ investigations of Washington Embassy leaks, 283, 292, 294, 296–7, 309, 315; and DM’s disappearance, 323, 330–31
Carmarthen, 9
Carroll, Daphne, 279
Cecil, Kathleen, 196, 270, 341
Cecil, Robert, 75, 95–6, 112, 124, 141, 152, 164, 198, 201, 278, 316, 326, 340–41
Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, 171
Chamberlain, Neville, 78, 97, 98, 100, 103, 122; Munich Agreement, 89–91, 91–2, 140–41, 369
Chambers, Whittaker, 216–17, 288–9
Chapman-Andrews, Sir Edwin, 248–50, 258
Charleston, South Carolina, 295
Charques, R.D., Contemporary Literature and Social Revolution, DM’s review of, 40–41
Chartres, 120
Chatham, Kent, 324
Cheke, Sir Marcus, 278
Chelsea, Oakley Street, 69
Chiang Kai-shek, 232
Chicago, 110; Comiskey Park, 141
Chicago White Sox (baseball team), 141
Chiesman, Sir Walter, 253, 256, 257, 260, 261, 271
Childers, Erskine, 14
China, 232, 280
Chkalovskaya, Maclean family dacha, 366
Christie, Dame Agatha, 49, 320
Churchill, Sarah, 156
Churchill, Sir Winston, 50, 76, 140; wartime Prime Minister, 103, 122, 126, 132, 133, 139, 146–7, 150, 155–8, 161, 185; Iron Curtain speech, 163
CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency), 137, 218, 219
City of Exeter (ship), 98
Claret, Operation (Ordzhonikidze incident; 1956), 359
Clark Kerr, Sir Archibald see Inverchapel, Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron
Clark, William, 177–8
Clarke, Carter W., 180
Clay, Lucius, 202
Clayton, William L., 200
Clutton, Sir George, 206
Cockerell, Sir Christopher, 15
code-breaking, 73, 133, 135–7, 159, 179–81; see also “Venona” operation
code-names and pseudonyms, DM’s, 54, 78, 146, 297, 361, 363
Collins (publishing company), 343
Columbia University, New York, 174
Combined Policy Committee (on atomic energy development; CPC), 188, 189, 190, 195
Comintern (Communist International), 31, 48, 53, 101, 151
Committee of Imperial Defence, 72–3, 107
Commonwealth Conference (Ottawa; 1932), 36
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB): foundation, 28; membership numbers, 29; and General Strike, 18; at Cambridge University, 31–2, 38; MI5 penetration of, 80–82; response to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 101
Communist Party of the United States, 85, 149, 174–5
Congo, 186
Connolly, Cyril, 131, 208, 281, 287–8, 301, 309; meets DM on day of disappearance, 3, 318; views on DM, 58, 78, 113, 208, 261, 266–7; The Missing Diplomats, 348–9
Constantini, Secondo, 69
Contact Editions (publishing company), 110
Cooke, Alistair, 288
Cooper, Lady Diana (later Viscountess Norwich), 369
Cooper, Duff (later 1st Viscount Norwich), 349
Copenhagen, 70
Coplon, Judith, 236
Cornford, John, 74
Cornforth, Kitty (née Klugmann), 29, 32
Cornforth, Maurice, 29, 31–2
Cossitt, Thomas, 170n
Courtauld Institute, 279
CPGB see Communist Party of Great Britain
Crabb, Lionel “Buster,” 359
Crankshaw, Edward, 372
cricket, 7, 37, 42, 61, 141, 194
Cripps, Sir Stafford, 132
Cronin, A.J., The Citadel, 84
Culme-Seymour, Mark, 78, 111–12, 261, 287–8, 300, 301, 311, 379; best man to DM, 120
Cumming-Bruce, Sir Roualeyn, 24, 44–5, 316
Cunard, Nancy, 131
Curle, Sir John, 319
Curry, John, 173–4
Curzon, George, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, 297
Curzon Street, Mayfair, 297
CUSS see Cambridge University Socialist Society
Czechoslovakia, 89–90, 92, 97, 201; Warsaw Pact invasion (1968), 369; see also Prague
D-Day landings (1944), 134, 139, 277
Daily Express, 257, 285, 324, 326, 328, 338–9, 348
Daily Mail, 17–18, 335, 371
Daily Telegraph, 334
Daladier, Edouard, 89, 91, 98
Danzig, 99
Daoud, Prince of Egypt, 231
“Dare Doggerel. Nov. 11” (poem; DM), 40
Dartmouth Naval College, 34
Davies, Joseph E., 173
De Sica, Vittorio, Bicycle Thieves, 251
Denmark, 103, 116, 137; see also Copenhagen
Depression (1930s), 20, 27, 29–30, 32–3, 41, 148, 379
Deutsch, Arnold: background, character and early life, 48–9; Soviet recruitment agent in England, 49–50, 69, 96; recruitment and running of Cambridge spy ring, 48, 49, 50, 54–7, 60, 61, 62, 66, 69–70, 166; and Woolwich Arsenal spy ring, 81; recalled to Moscow, 82–3, 84
Deutsch, Oscar, 49
Devitt, Andrew, 10
Devitt, Buddy, 349
Devitt, Jane, 123
Dixie Clipper (flying boat), 131
Djilas, Milovan, 147
Dobb, Maurice, 28, 31–2, 33, 34
Doctor Strangelove (film; 1964), 187n
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 47
Donbass (Soviet ship), 82
> Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” 137
Dos Passos, John, 41
Double-Cross system, 133
Drax, Sir Reginald, 98
Dresden, 75
Driberg, Tom (later Baron Bradwell), 360
Duart Castle, Mull, 8
Dulles, Allen, 331
Dunbar, Hal, 111, 128, 141, 142, 152, 197
Dunbar, Melinda (earlier Marling; DM’s mother-in-law): marriage to Francis Marling, 110–111, 113; children’s upbringing, 111; marriage to Hal Dunbar, 111, 197; and daughter’s relationship with and marriage to DM, 113, 119, 121, 141–2, 152, 273; and DM’s mother, 164; takes daughter to Spain after DM’s breakdown in Cairo, 259; looks after grandchildren in Paris, 267; supports daughter following DM’s disappearance, 340, 344, 347, 348; and daughter’s flight to Soviet Union, 352, 354–5, 363, 364–5; visits daughter in Moscow, 372, 374
Dunkirk evacuation (1940), 118
Durrell, Lawrence, 261
Dutt, Clemens Palme, 31
Dwyer, Peter, 219, 232, 283
Eccles, J.R., 14, 17
Economic Warfare, Ministry of, 124
Eden, Sir Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon), 76, 139, 156, 158, 161, 359
Egypt, 203, 206–7, 212–13, 214–15, 223, 241–2, 263; see also Alexandria; Cairo
elections see general elections; local elections
Eliot, T.S., 41, 200, 361; Four Quartets, 241
Elizabeth, Princess (later Queen Elizabeth II), 212
Elizabeth, Queen consort (later Queen Mother), 151
Elliott, Nicholas, 338
Engert, Sheila, 246
Enigma machine, 136
Eton College, 34, 107, 291
Everson, Sir Frederick, 302
Fahmy, Isis, 220
Fairlie, Henry, 367
Faiza, Princess of Egypt, 220
Falaise, SS, 4, 314, 320, 337, 342
Falklands War (1982), 377
Farouk, King of Egypt, 209, 212, 220
fascism, 20, 27–8, 49, 67–8, 73–5; see also British Union of Fascists; Nazism
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