by Max Hastings
‘exemplary leadership’ ibid. p.207
‘My touchiness is probably’ UKNA HW14/37
‘MI5 bought up and pulped’ Liddell vol. I p.33
‘highly commendable’ McKay p.104
‘New faces are being’ UKNA HW14/13
‘There have been recent’ UKNA HW14/37 11.5.42
‘A wonderful set of professors’ Brooke, Alan War Diaries 1939–45 ed. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001 p.250
‘the whole Enigma is garbage!’ Kahn Kahn On Codes p.113
‘In March 1943, two such’ Budiansky p.241
‘running a mistress’ Liddell vol. I p.264
‘Donovan … is extremely friendly’ Kennedy, Sir John MS, King’s College London, Liddell Hart Archive 7.3.41
‘What will they think’ Jeffery p.44
‘a very good fellow’ Liddell vol. I p.116 11.12.40
‘might win the war’ USNA RG65 Box 124
‘In January 1941, when an American’ This account is based on Ralph Erskine ‘What did the Sinkov Mission Receive from Bletchley Park?’ Cryptologia 22.9.2007
‘that for Britain Ultra’ Budiansky in Action This Day p.222
‘the general policy is to be’ UKNA WO193/306
‘still reveal instances of gross’ UKNA CAB120/768
Chapter 4 – The Dogs that Barked
‘As early as July 1940’ Sotskov, L.F. ed. Aggressiya. Rassekrechennye dokumenty sluzhby razvedki RF, 1939–41 (Aggression: Declassified Documents of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation) Moscow 2001 p.222
‘The Germans have raised’ Gorodetsky, Gabriel Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia Yale 1999 p.58
‘Pressure was to be exerted’ ibid. p.57
‘Vsevolod Merkulov, Beria’s deputy’ ibid. p.114
‘remained the decisive focus’ ibid. p.122
‘We have completely altered’ ibid. p.133
‘the majority of the intelligence’ ibid. p.135
‘What news from “the village”?’ Gourevitch p.87
‘I am lonely’ Prange, Gordon Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring McGraw-Hill 1984 p.342
‘Berlin has informed’ Sorge dispatches p.277, document 150 TsAMO RF f.23, op.24127, d.2,l.422
‘I think that one can never’ Gorodetsky p.53
‘No special assignments’ Peshchersky, Vladimir Krasnaya Kapella: Sovetskaya razvedka protiv abvera i Gestapo (Rote Kapelle: The Soviet Intelligence Service Against the Abwehr and Gestapo) Moscow 2000 p.70
‘Most significantly, he told’ Sotskov p.141
‘The NKVD Fifth Department’s’ ibid. p.234
‘on 7 February 1941’ ibid. p.256
‘Next day came another’ ibid. p.258
‘This was followed by’ ibid. p.262 et seq.
‘“Breitenbach” reported that the British’ ibid. p.271 19.3.41
‘Kuckhoff strikes one’ ibid. pp.165–6
‘rumours about Germany’s attack’ ibid. p.391
‘We can pump whatever information’ Gorodetsky p.53
‘Behrens was anyway’ ibid. p.176
‘Moreover, on 20 June’ Sotskov p.490
‘anti-Soviet elements’ Gorodetsky p.301
‘A visiting American’ John Deane in Waller, Douglas Wild Bill Donovan Simon & Schuster 2012 p.223
‘a nervous Fitin scribbled’ Sotskov p.461
‘the usual contradictory rumours’ UKNA FO371/29479 N1390/78
‘German plan is as follows’ UKNA FO371/26518 C2919/19/18
‘In early April the JIC’s’ UKNA FO371/29479 N1364/78/38 and 29465 N1713/3/38
‘As late as 23 May’ UKNA WO208/1761 jic 41/218
‘Cripps told the American ambassador’ US State Department 740.0011 EW/39/8919 7.3.41
‘The NKVD also suggested’ Gorodetsky p.185
‘They responded that Berlin’ ibid. p.187
‘On 24 May, when’ ibid. p.222
‘But he also stated’ Sudoplatov p.123
‘The only certain thing’ Gorodetsky p.306
‘Misinformation! You may go’ ibid. p.206
Chapter 5 – Divine Winds
‘The saga vividly illustrates’ This account is principally based upon Seki Eiji’s Mrs Ferguson’s Tea Set: Japan and the Second World War Global Oriental 2000
‘like searching for very fine’ Kotani, Ken Japanese Intelligence in World War II Osprey 2009 p.32
‘The [US] Army and Navy’ ibid. p.83
‘characteristic impertinence’ Liddell vol. I p.161
‘In Japan we are in’ Kotani p.20
‘It is expected that the Germans’ ibid. p.101
‘I became aware of’ ibid. p.71
‘He was recruited by Tokyo’ see Elphick & Smith Odd Man Out Hodder & Stoughton 1993
‘He reported three times’ John Hurt MS in Friedman Papers Box 212 ‘The Japanese Problem in the Signals Intelligence Service’ 1930–45 p.28
‘Rochefort was born’ The principal source for the biographical information that follows is Elliot Carlson’s Joe Rochefort’s War Naval Institute Press Annapolis 2011
‘makes you feel’ ibid. p.35
‘The few persons who’ ibid. p.39
‘the results they achieved’ ibid. p.21
‘forget Pearl Harbor’ Holmes, W.J. Double-Edged Secrets: US Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II Naval Institute Press 1979 p.43
‘Now, there goes’ ibid. p.96
‘In the defensive stages’ USNA RG457 Box 78 SRH264
‘the enemy had grasped’ Kotani p.87
Chapter 6 – Muddling and Groping: The Russians at War
‘Are you sure’ Sudoplatov p.127
‘The newly liberated officers’ ibid. p.128
‘It is hard to suppose’ Andrew, Christopher & Mirokhin, Vasili The Mitrokhin Archive Allen Lane 1999 p.106
‘Since 1939 Sudoplatov’ Sudoplatov p.112
‘He was a man who’ ibid. p.113
‘People like you’ ibid. p.114
‘We did not go home’ Voskresenskaya, Zoya Teper ya mogu skazat pravdu (Now I Can Tell the Truth) Moscow 1993
‘He appeared to me’ Sudoplatov p.150
‘A modern Russian’ Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina 1941–1945 godov (The Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945) vol. VI (Intelligence and Counter Intelligence During the Great Patriotic War) Moscow 2013 p.196
‘It is a mistake’ Masterman, J.C. The Double-Cross System Granada 1979 p.32
‘Sergei Tolstoy’ L.A. Kuzmin, in an essay entitled ‘Ne zabyvat svoikh geroev’ (We Must Not Forget Our Heroes), claims that Tolstoy’s team broke the Japanese Orange, Red and Purple ciphers
‘All that seems certain’ Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina 1941–1945 godov (The Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945) vol. VI p.196
‘Western cryptographic experts’ Ralph Erskine made this point to the author 5.4.2015
‘He was an unusually gifted’ This narrative is based on the account in Degtyarev, Klim & Kolpakidi, Aleksandr Vneshnyaya Razvedka SSSR (Soviet Foreign Intelligence) Moscow 2009 p.130 et seq.
‘Almost every offensive’ Franz Halder in a 1967 interview with Der Spiegel
‘Radó revealed after the war’ By endorsing a published version of his story, Moscow’s Eye by German journalist Bernd Ruland
‘By this means the spy’ Peshchersky p.235
‘a big, imposing house’ Gourevitch p.159 et seq.
‘I’m thrilled to see you’ ibid. p.164
‘I could not rid myself’ ibid. p.165
‘Army Group B, said the Rote Kapelle’ Korovin V.V. Sovetskaya razvedka I kontrrazvedka v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (Soviet Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence During the Great Patriotic War) Moscow 2003 p.48
‘This summer the Germans’ ibid. p.49
‘Germany’s counter-intelligence agencies’ Echterkampf Second World War vol. IX/1 p.821 et seq.
Chapter 7 – Britai
n’s Secret War Machine
‘the results of which’ There is an exemplary account of this and related Mediterranean naval actions in Richard Woodman’s Malta Convoys John Murray 2000 p.244 et seq.
‘Admiral Ciliax’s squadron’ This account is chiefly based on Hinsley et al. British Intelligence vol. II pp.179–88
‘a tactical victory’ Roskill, S.W. The War at Sea HMSO 1956 vol. II p.159
‘The best arrangement’ Cradock, Percy Know Your Enemy: How the JIC Saw the World John Murray 2002
‘It was like a French farce’ Howarth p.113
‘very impressive … He had a temperament’ ibid. p.171
‘An advance by the Axis’ UKNA CAB81/103
‘leading my choir’ Howarth p.143
‘rather as an army commander’ Jones Intelligence p.91
‘the British armies and the new’ Howarth p.171
‘to use the Soviet [front]’ UKNA CAB81/103
‘Assuming that the campaign’ UKNA CAB81/103
‘We think her inclination’ UKNA CAB81/103
‘a German in touch with’ UKNA CAB81/103
‘If Elizabeth had taken’ Trevelyan, G.M. A Short History of England Pelican 1959 p.256
‘I think, Captain’ McLachlan p.264
‘spoke ill of many’ Dalton, Hugh The War Diaries of Hugh Dalton ed. Ben Pimlott Jonathan Cape 1986 p.58
‘Desperate Desmond’ Lockhart p.230 15.3.43
‘a curious creature’ Howarth p.144
‘Although he knew’ Bennett Man of Mystery p.250
‘When I looked coolly’ Sisman p.90
‘I do not think he ever’ Trevor-Roper Secret World p.103
‘Is it necessary to argue’ Sisman p.107
‘Trevor-Roper found himself’ ibid. pp.109–10
‘If good work results in’ Jones Intelligence p.158
‘Only Bletchley kept’ Howarth p.115
‘Intelligence is only’ Schlesinger, Arthur M. A Life in the Twentieth Century Mariner 2000 p.328
‘It’s hopeless conducting’ Cadogan p.405 6.9.41
‘They are to be regarded’ UKNA HW14/13
‘The British service’ see Hastings, Max Bomber Command Michael Joseph 1979 p.98
‘The science of destroying’ UKNA CAB163/6
‘It is striking’ Bonsall, A. An Uphill Struggle: The Provision of Tactical Sigint Support to the Allied Air Forces in Europe in WWII and Stubbington, John Kept in the Dark p.205
‘Like the driver’ McLachlan p.2
‘if not the wisest’ ibid. p.2
‘On 11 March 1942 C-in-C’ UKNA ADM205/23
‘So reliable was’ McLachlan p.38
‘entertaining at the Ritz’ ibid. p.174
‘The enemy possessed’ TICOM files online, German Naval Communications Intelligence SRH-024, p.21
‘The most complete single’ ibid. p.25
‘The convoys then at sea’ ibid. p.22
‘the more important ciphers’ Erskine Action This Day pp.374–5
‘whether and to what’ Dönitz Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days p.143
‘After the war Donald McLachlan’ McLachlan p.340
Chapter 8 – ‘Mars’: The Bloodiest Deception
‘In the winter of 1941’ Praun MS p.98
‘The British were alarmed’ UKNA HW14/62 Dec.1942, HW14/33, HW14/60, HW14/19, HW14/17. There is further detail on UK monitoring of German intercepts of the Eastern Front in HW14/27, HW14/29, HW14/62, HW14/28 and HW14/33. There are useful insights into the ‘Mars’ deception in the Information Bulletin of the Russian Association of Second World War Historians no.6 200 p.16 et seq.
‘the Germans can read’ UKNA HW14/19
‘FHO’s chief offered’ Freiburg Archives RH2/1981, sheet 46–51 Foreign Armies East
‘Early in 1942, during’ Damaskin, Igor Stalin i razvedka (Stalin and the Intelligence Service) Moscow 2004 p.284 et seq.
‘The chaos in the GRU’ ibid. p.285
‘Even as late as 19 June’ Damaskin p.287
‘The 6 November report should’ Freiburg Archive RH2/1957, sheets 180, 183
‘very highly valued’ UKNA CAB154/105
‘He and his section puzzled’ UKNA HW19/347
‘MAX must be regarded’ Liddell vol. II p.99
‘Pavel Sudoplatov is too’ see David Glanz writing in Handel et al. p.188
‘Bishop Vasily Ratmirov’ Sudoplatov p.160
‘The bishop asked for’ Rybkina p.321
Chapter 9 – The Orchestra’s Last Concert
‘Centre kept sending’ Zoya Rybkina memoirs p.239
‘I did not know that he’ Gourevitch p.213
‘she mended clothes’ UKNA WO208/5556; see Antonia Hunt Little Resistance Leo Cooper 1982 for Lyon-Smith’s version of events.
‘After the break-up’ Praun MS p.185
‘it gave me moral’ Foote p.119
‘For the first time’ ibid. p.143
‘a motherly old soul’ ibid. p.110
Chapter 10 – Guerrilla
‘set Europe ablaze’ Dalton diary p.62 22.7.40
‘You should never be’ ibid. p.52 1.7.40
‘The time is not’ Howarth p.138
‘tended to give Churchill’ Beevor p.15
‘Robert Bruce Lockhart’ Lockhart p.168–9
‘Sometimes they would’ Hastings, Max Das Reich: The 2nd SS Panzer Division’s March to Normandy June 1944 Michael Joseph 1981 p.137
‘You could never make’ To the author 10.3.80
‘The only good point’ Bennett Churchill’s Man of Mystery Routledge 2009 p.261
‘several of its training schools’ Jeffery p.629
‘The man who is’ Sweet-Escott, Bickham Baker Street Irregular Methuen 1965 p.24
‘nothing more than a wicked’ ibid. p.12
‘The Abwehr was bemused’ see UKNA CAB301/51 Hanbury-William/Playfair June 1942 report on shortcomings of SOE
‘A January 1942 Baker Street’ UKNA HI5/203 21.1.42
‘He tells me that’ UKNA HI5/203 December 1942
‘action for action’s sake’ Sweet-Escott p.60
‘The sacrifice might’ ibid. p.197
‘What matters most’ Clive, Nigel A Greek Experience 1943–48 Michael Russell 1985 p.85
‘the Germans were infuriated’ Praun MS p.121
‘Could nothing be done’ Lockhart p.222
‘They never achieved’ See UKNA FO1093/155 for attempts by MI6 to stifle SOE
‘Lack of unity’ Liddell vol. II p.61
‘The Greek Alphabet’ Jeffery p.355
‘Those were exceptions’ UKNA WO208/3629 Weigel interrogation
‘WHENEVER YOU WILL COME’ This account is taken from Foot, M.R.D. The Special Operations Executive 1940–46 BBC 1984 pp.130–4
‘displayed an enthusiasm’ Times Literary Supplement 18.3.53
‘good people, very good’ Howarth p.175
‘There were a lot of’ ibid. p.174
‘to frontal assault’ ibid.
‘One was most afraid’ Reed-Olsen, Oluf Two Eggs on My Plate Allen & Unwin 1952 p.234
‘like trying to live’ Jeffery p.434
‘Carlton Gardens was indifferent’ Liddell p.206
‘it was not exclusively’ Reed-Olsen p.45
‘Escapers and evaders’ Foot, M.R.D & Langley, J.M. MI9: Escape and Evasion 1939–45 Bodley Head 1979 p.65
‘James Langley’ Langley, James Fight Another Day Magnum 1974 p.242
‘Your trouble, Jimmy’ ibid. p.193
‘one colonel tried’ Sweet-Escott p.73
‘all his energies’ Clive p.45
‘Political rather than’ ibid. p.123
‘of carrying out two’ Haukelid, Knut Skis Against the Atom North American Heritage 1989 p.13
‘there were many more’ Sweet-Escott p.154
‘Our effort in Greece’ Clive p.128
‘Wallace was quite wrong’ Unpublished Hiller MS, see Hastings Das Reich p.48
‘I enjoye
d one of’ Clive p.134
‘20 per cent for Liberation’ Harris Smith, R. OSS: The History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency University of California Press 1972 p.112
‘for instance, the 2nd SS’ see Hastings Das Reich passim
‘It was only just worth it’ ibid. p.218
Chapter 11 – Hoover’s G-Men, Donovan’s Wild Men
‘Gentlemen, I am’ Hayden, Sterling The Wanderer Sheridan House 2000 p.330
‘An SOE man visiting’ Sweet-Escott p.126
‘Reader’s Digest, Twentieth Century-Fox’ USNA RG65 Box 125 FBI Narrative
‘What he did when’ ibid.
‘inability to fit into’ USNA RG65 Box 122
‘The British MI6 displayed’ ibid.
‘On March 17’ USNA RG65 Box 125
‘Consideration is being’ USNA RG65 Box 126
‘“skulduggery” and intelligence-gathering’ Howarth p.148
‘calculatingly reckless’ Harris Smith p.35
‘Everyone was working up’ Hayden p.310
‘When Arthur Schlesinger joined’ Schlesinger p.296
‘The chiefs of the various’ Hayden p.310
‘Major William Holohan’ Smith p.111
‘The colonel has aged’ Lockhart p.175 17.6.42
‘The training I have’ USNA RG59 Box 151 103.91802
‘He feels very strongly’ RG59 Box 150 103.91802 July 1944
‘The US ambassador in Chonqing’ USNA RG59 Box148 103.91802/14 14.10.43
‘The US consul in Tangier’ ibid. Box 149 103.91802/1921 Apr 1944
‘Gollys, young feller’ Hayden p.236
‘My duty was to’ Stafford, David Roosevelt and Churchill p.213
‘in intelligence, the British’ Tompkins, Peter Italy Betrayed Simon & Schuster 1966 p.253
‘these callow, touchy’ Trevor-Roper Journals January 1943 p.128
‘British imperialism’ Sweet-Escott p.150
‘“great value”, and authorised’ USNA RG59 Box 151 103.91802 November 1944
‘SOE and MI6 agreed’ UKNA HIS/210
‘We are shortly coming to’ UKNA HS1/103
‘The overland journey took’ Smith p.254
‘were not interested in’ ibid. p.128
‘Here, I was’ Seitz, Albert Milhailovitch Columbus 1953 p.49
‘We established a’ Hayden 1951 Testimony to the House US Committee pp.152–3
‘found himself committed’ Hayden p.314
‘I told you in earlier’ ibid. p.315
‘unusual methods of interrogation’ Katz, Barry M. Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services 1942–45 Harvard 1989 p.185
