by Mark Colvin
ABC Training Centre, 184
ABC TV Current Affairs: This Day Tonight, 3, 184, 187, 213, 230
ABC, London: appointed correspondent, 1, 3; Broadcasting House, 7; first assignment, 1; Joyce, 3–4, 5–7, 13, 45; Revill, 5–6
Abyssinia, 279
Adams, Paul, 7
Adam-Smith, Janet, 148
Addis Ababa, 277, 278, 279, 280
Agnieska (Polish interpreter), 244
agnosticism, 140
Aksum, 278–9
Aldrich, Professor Richard, 51, 102–103, 167
Aldridge, Nick, 104–5
Algarve, Portugal, 114–15
Allan, Norm, 185
Allebone, Roger, 220
‘alternative ‘religions’, 208
Altman, Denis, 204–5
ANCA-positive polyangitis, 276
Anderson, Jack, 224–5
Anderson, Lindsay, 121
Andropov, Yuri, 252
Anglicanism, 138–9
Ant and Bee books, 73–4
apartheid, 10, 246, 273–4, 289
Arden, John, 194
ASIO, 219, 225
Askin, Sir Robert, 184, 185, 189
Astor, David, 61
Ataturk, Kemal, 108
atomic warfare threat, 102
Attenborough, Richard, 126
Australian Democrats, 217
Australian Labor Party, 149, 225; axes Hayden, 251; Cairns and economy, 196, 202; Hawke new leader, 251; post-Dismissal, 205; restructuring, 202; see also Dismissal
Australian National University, 149
Austria, 48, 65, 76; post-war zones, 55–6
avascular necrosis, 276
Avory, Mick, 224
Ayers, Rowan, 112
Bachmann, Gideon, 209–10
Baghdad, 280, 281, 282
Balibo Five, 206
Bamse (dog), 57, 80
Bani-Sadr, President, 26, 39
Barbie, Klaus (‘Butcher of Lyons’), 259; testimonies and trial, 260–1
Barrell, Tony, 210, 215
Barron, Peter, 211
Barry, Paul, 272
Bartlett, Graeme, 215
Bazargan, Mehdi, 12
BB King, 185
BBC TV: Tehran, 22–3, 24; The World at One, 251
Begg, Ken, 187, 202; London office, 3, 6, 13; on ‘techno-hackery’, 7
Belfast riots, 1981, 240–1
Belsen concentration camp, 258–9
Belsham, Bruce, 265
Benn, Tony, 239
Bennett, Alan, 138
Bennett, Amos, 189
Berkowitz, David, 211
Berkrey, Terry, 190
Berlin Wall, 277
Berman, Shelley, 111
Birmistriw, Paul, 228–9
Bitburg German War Cemetery, 258, 259
Bjelke-Petersen, Joh, 211, 230
Blackpool conference, 238, 239
Blake, George, 59, 60
Bland, Sir Henry ‘Hatchet’, 213–14
Blondie, 217
Blunt, Anthony, 53
boarding school discipline, 93–8
Bonn, 266; anarchist demonstrations, 263; G7 summit, 263, 264
Bonner, Neville, 200
Borneo, 102–3
Bowie, David, 197, 217
Boyce, Christopher: selling secrets to Soviets, 219; The Falcon and the Snowman, 219
Boyer Lectures, 214
Brezhnev, Leonid, 245, 252
Brixton riots, London, 247
Broadcasting House, London, 7
Broadway Buildings, London, 68–9
Brockman, Holger, 192, 193, 199
Brodie, Alex (BBC), 22–3, 41, 42, 43
Brown, Derek, 268
Bruce, Ethel and Stanley, 107–8
Brussels press corps, 250, 251, 265–6; end of tour 1987, 268; friends and colleagues, 268–9; see also Moscow assignment
Bryant family, London, 106
Bunton, Cleaver, 189
Burgess, Guy, 50, 53, 69
Burns, Arthur and Netta, 149
Burns, Sally, 149
Bush, President George (snr), 280
Buster Crabb affair, 69–70
Cairncross, John, 53
Cairns, Miss (teacher), 82
Cairns, Jim, 196, 202
Callaghan, Jim, 238–9
Callaghan, Johnny, 85
Cambridge Five see Blunt; Burgess; Cairncross; Maclean; Philby
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 102
Canberra, ix, xii, xiii, 3, 147–8, 151, 182, 185, 199; ABC newsroom, 186–9, 229; political coverage, 229–30
Candide, 139
Carey, Michael, 284
Carleton, John, 121, 146
Carleton, Richard, 187, 213, 230
Carrington, Lord, 8, 237, 247
Carroll, Lewis, 122
Carter, Alec, 228
Carter, President Jimmy, 9, 16, 30, 31, 32, 45, 46, 219, 236, 243–4
Cash, Johnny, 275
Cavendish, Anthony, 56
Cazenove, David, 142
Cazenove, Moranna, 141, 142
censorship: films, 13, 209–10, 213–14; international, 13; journalism, 204; at school, 95; television, 213–14
Century House, London, 69, 222
Channel Tunnel story, 8
Chavchavadze, Helen, 114
Chelsea (UK), 108–9
Chelsea Froebel School, 77, 79
Chernenko, Konstantin, 252, 261, 262
Chernobyl disaster, 267–8
China, People’s Republic of, 4; Cultural Revolution, 12, 131, 157, 158, 160, 161, 180, 181, 289; Gang of Four, 160; Great Wall, 163–4; Mao, 151, 161, 162, 165, 167; People’s Liberation Army, 157, 158, 165
Chinese airlines, 158–9
Chipp, Don, 210, 217
Christ Church, Oxford, 122, 148, 151–4
Christie, Bert, 11, 41, 45
Churchill, Winston, 52–3, 59, 77; Yalta Conference (1945), 277
‘churnalism’, 7
CIA: Headquarters, 222; and Suez affair, 71
Clark, Professor Manning, 214
Clark, Tim, 3
Cobar bushfire, 190–1
Cocker, Mac, 200, 210–11, 212
Cogan, Jim, 125, 148
Cold War, 46, 48, 84, 235, 240, 246, 282
Collins, Canon John, 102
Colvin, Admiral Sir Ragnar, 50, 58
Colvin, David, 166
Colvin, Elizabeth Anne (née Manifold): background, 47, 63; Chelsea, London, 65–8, 108; first marriage break-up, 103–4, 106, 218; Kuala Lumpur, 82; marries John Colvin, 64; returns to Australia, 144–5; second marriage, to Synnot, 142–3; a spy’s wife, 47, 63, 64–5
Colvin, Joanna, 166
Colvin, John Horace Ragnar: on communism, 53; concern at Middle East situation, 282; days out with, 110–11; and David Rockefeller, 234–5; at ease with women, 114; friendship with Milovanovic, 169–70; holidays with, 112–15; hypochondria, 112–13; interest in Chinese ceramics, 160; letters home, 119; living in Chelsea, 106, 109; Mark visits in US, 219–20; marriage (first), 47, 64; marriage break-up, 103–4, 106; marriage (second), 141–2; memoirs, 52, 115, 117, 134, 166–7, 235; naval background, 47, 49, 50; personal safety, 119–120; personality, 109–10, 111, 113, 115; ‘purist’ for the Cold War, 283; reunion in Washington, 219–20, 221–3; and Sukarno, 84; Twice around the World, 52, 115, 117, 134, 167, 235; work before family, 115–16
Colvin, John Horace Ragnar, in service, 134–5, 152; ambassador to Ulan Bator, 151; Borneo, 102–3; confirmed as a spy, 218; ‘diplomatic attachment’, 48, 52; espionage training, 65; Foreign Office, Whitehall, 65; ‘consul-general’, Hanoi, 115–16, 117–20, 127–33; intelligence cover, 60; intelligence skills, 130–3; intelligence sources, 130; intelligence work, Washington, 34; involvement in Suez affair, 70, 71; SIS (MI6), 49, 50, 53–4, 109, 112, 218, 221–2; stops fighting the Cold War, 235; Vienna, 54, 57–60, 65; wartime, 51; Washington posting, 219–20
Colvin, Mark: desk-bound, 286; at Double J, 191, 192, 194; first
cigarette, 144; first kiss, 133; health problems, 93, 142–3, 276, 285, 289–90; interest in history, 140, 141; last story from the field, 284–6; love of literature, 126; on parents’ divorce, 103–4; parents’ remarriages, 141–2; Never Bored, 290; New York, 220–1; San Francisco, 220; silent about father’s MI6 role, 218; 60th birthday, 275; on theology, 140; untold stories, 275; visits father in Washington, 219–20, 221–3; see also Oxford University
Colvin, Mark, childhood: birth, 47; birthdays, 75; books and reading, 73–5; broken arm, 85–8, 91; Chelsea, London, 65–8; Europe, 55, 57–8; first memory of flying, 77; grandparents, 58; Granny Sibyl, 77–9; memories, 48–9; plane-watching, 75; sex education, 101, 139; visits to France, 77; see also Malaya; schooling, England; Summer Fields Prep School; Westminster School
Colvin, Michele, 267, 278, 280
Colvin, Nicolas, 51, 267
Colvin, Sibyl, 58, 66, 77
Colvin, Sidney, 152
Colvin, William, 280
Colvin, Zoë see Higgie, Zoë
concentration camps: Belsen, 258–9; Dachau, 259
Comber, Leon: Malaya’s Secret Police 1945–60: The Role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency, 83
Community Aid Abroad, 278
conscription; conscientious objectors, 149
Cook, Peter, 111, 133
Cooke, Alistair, 284
Cooper, Chester, 72
Cooper, Roger, 18, 32–3
Corera, Gordon, 70, 71, 292; MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service, 56; The Art of Betrayal, 69
corporal punishment (school), 92, 97, 121
Costello, Elvis, 217
Crabb, Lionel ‘Buster’, 69–70
Critchley, Julian, 236
Cyclone Tracy, 150, 191, 202
Czechoslovakia, 76, 243
Dachau concentration camp, 259
Darmody, Jack, 228
Davidson, Gay, 188
Davies, Dave and Ray, 224
Davies, Nick, 7, 97
Dawes-Smith, Peter, 190
Dawkins, Will, 268
Dehqani-Tafti, Bahram, 41, 42, 43–5
Dehqani-Tafti, Bishop Hassan, 43–4
Dimbleby, Richard, 258
Dismissal (Whitlam govt), 202–3, 205, 206, 211–12, 219; live broadcast and debates, 199–201, 203
Doogue, Geraldine, 267
Double J radio station: airtime, 210; American Bicentennial program, 215; audience age group, 208; Barrell, 210, 215; and Bland, 214; book reviews, 207; Brockman, 192, 193, 199; budget cuts, 213; Colvin joins, 191, 192, 194; coverage, 198, 211, 216–17; ‘Day of Rage’ rift, 198–9; Dismissal, live-broadcast, 199–201; Dismissal debates, 203; documentaries, 197, 207; on East Timor, 205–6; election night, 1975, 204–5; finance, 195; first broadcast, 192, 193–4; foreign coverage, 207; Granville train disaster, 215–16; journalists, 196, 197–8; launch, 194; McGirvan, 197; Manson murders piece, 207, 208; and Marius Webb, 214; music, 193, 197, 210–11, 212; news content, 194, 207; newsroom, 193–5, 210; 1984 program, 215; offices off-site, 195; opposition to, 194, 197, 198; politically left-wing/subversive, 196–7; presenters, 197; staff, 194; ‘straight’ journalism, 215–17; studios, 195; youth issues, 211
double-dissolution story, 186–7
Douglas, Reg, 228
Downes, Jim, 231
Downing, Malcolm, 242, 251
Dragon (band), 217
Drake, Bill see Brockman, Holger
Duckmanton, Talbot, 212, 213
Duffield, Lee, 196, 199
Eady, Toby, 95
East Berlin, 262–3
East German border, 262–3
East Timor, 205–6
Eden, Anthony, 70, 71, 72
Egypt, 281; Suez crisis, 70–2, 75, 80
Elliott, Nicholas, 68, 70; and Buster Crabb affair, 69; and Philby, 60, 61–2
Ellmann, Richard, 152
Ely Cathedral, 161
Eno, Brian, 217
Eritrea, 277
Er-Lian, 165, 167–8
Ethiopia, 277–80
Evans, Rowland (Rowley), 224
Fairweather, Duncan, 229, 230
Falklands War, 247–9
Falmouth Packet, 153, 186
Falstria (ship), 79–80, 81
Fatemi, Dr H, 17
Favell, William, 228
Fedayeen, 17, 25–6, 28, 29–30
Federation of Malaya, 84
Field, John, 125–6
Field, Mary-Ellen, 276
Fields, Robbie, 146
Fileman, Chris, 231
film censorship, 13, 209–10, 213–14
film reviews, 208–10
Fitzgerald, Dr Stephen, 4
Fleming, Caspar, 98–9
Fleming, Ian, 68, 98, 99, 109
Foot, Michael, 239–40
Forbes Club, 184
Ford, President Gerald, 211
Foreign Correspondent, 276
Foreign Office, Whitehall, x, 49, 65, 68, 114, 118, 219
Four Corners, 2–3, 230, 231–2; ‘culture’ of unit, 273; colleagues, 272; film-making, 272–4; Namibia refugee story, 273–4; film not videotape, 280; Rainbow Warrior sinking, 265
France: The Sorrow and the Pity (film), 260, 261; trial of war criminal Barbie, 260–1; see also Paris
Francis, John, 197
Franklin, Nick, 196, 198
Fraser, Keith, 183
Fraser, Malcolm, 6, 196, 198, 214, 219, 230; cuts ABC budget, 213; and Dismissal, 203; and Hilton bombing, 228; ‘razor gang’, 213
Freeman, Alan, 100
Freer Gallery, Washington, 223
Fretilin, 205–6
Frick Gallery, New York, 221, 223
Frykberg, Ian, 8
Fyjis-Walker, Richard, 135
G7 summit, Bonn, 263, 264
Gang of Four (China), 160
Geneva, 266–7
Gentle Satan, 185
George, Peter, 46, 248
Gilmour, Sir Ian, 237
Goose Green, Falklands, 249
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 261–2, 280; grip on power, 267; interview with, 262; on nuclear weapons, 263; in Paris, 265, 266; summit with Reagan, 266; ‘teeth of steel’, 262; Thatcher endorses, 262
Gordon, Don, 183
Gore, Mike, 269, 271
Granny Sybil, 142
Granville train disaster, 215–16
Grattan, Michelle, 188
Great Wall of China, 163–4
Greece, school trip, 143–4
Greenpeace: Rainbow Warrior sinking, 265
Greswell, Nikki, 154–5
Grieve, Mike, 155
Gromyko, Andrei, 262, 265
Guilfoyle, Senator Margaret, 187
Gulf Wars, 281–2
Gulley, Jack, 251, 255
gumboot-throwing, N. Ireland, 242
Hagin, John, 231
Hall family, London, 106
Halliday, Professor Fred, 14
Handley, Russ, 183
Hanoi: father ‘consul-general’, 115–16, 117–20, 127–33; importance of mission, 136; ‘Rolling Thunder’ raid, 117–18; ‘The State Department’ shop, 52
Hanrahan, Brian, 248
Hanson, Fred, 185
Harare, 246
Harris, Rolf, 104
Hartley, HWH, 93–4
Haslam, Jonathan: Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence, 60
Hassan, Crown Prince of Jordan, 281
Havel, Václav, 289
Hawke, Bob, 230, 251
Hawkins, Jack, 126
Hayden, Bill, 149, 229–30, 251, 269
Hayes, Paddy, 59, 134–5; Queen of Spies, 57, 118, 129, 292
Healey, Denis, 238, 239, 240
Heath, Edward, 154, 236
Hernu, Charles, 265
Heseltine, Michael, 247
Hezbollahi (Iran), 26, 28
Higgie, Zoë (née Colvin), 80, 90, 92, 114, 145, 162, 218, 267–8; born in London, 66; and father, 111, 112, 116, 141, 142, 219; on parents’ break-up, 103; school holidays, 106–
7
Hill, Jess, 288
Hilton bombing, Sydney, 227–9
Hinckley, John Jnr, 266
Hishongwa, Ndeutala, 273–4
Hiss, Alger, 225
Hitchens, Christopher, 36
Ho Chi Minh, 127, 129
Holmes, Jonathan, 273
Hong Kong, 136, 156, 181, 234
Howard, John, 273
Howe, Geoffrey, 239
Hudson, Bob, 217
Hungarian Revolution, 75–6
Hussein, Sadam, 38, 280, 281, 282
Husseini, Sheikh Ezzedine, 42
Hylton, Ken, 155
Idi Amin Dada, 245
If film), 121
Imposter Syndrome, 272
Indonesia: Konfrontasi, 84, 103; Suharto, 206; Sukarno, 84, 103
Inglis, Ken, 213, 214
intelligence work, 219; ‘Bond’ image of service, 68; journalistic paranoia about, 219; signals intelligence, 167
Intercontinental Hotel, Tehran, 17–18, 19, 20–2, 24
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 266
intermediate-range nuclear missiles, 263
Iran: Ayatollahs, 3, 11–12, 15–17, 18, 25, 26, 27, 33, 35, 36–7, 39, 41, 43, 45; Hezbollahi, 26, 28; Iraq invades, 38, 45; Literacy Corps, 10, 11; London embassy crisis, 12, 41, 236; Mossadeq, 9, 17, 226; Mr Kim’s restaurant, 22; oil, 9; problems for journalists, 13; revolution, 9–10, 38–9, 277; Revolutionary Council, 25; SAVAK (secret service), 10; Shah exiled, 9–10, 11; Shi’a Muslims and Khomeini, 11; and United States, 10, 11–12, 24–5, 30, 31–7; see also Republic of Iranian Kurdistan; Tehran
Iran Air scam, 26–7
Iraq: Baghdad, 280, 281, 282; invades Iran, 38, 45; invades Kuwait, 280; power vacuum, 282; Saddam Hussein, 38, 280, 281, 282; uncensored film of, 280–1, 282
Isherwood, Christopher, 285
Ivanov, Yevgeny, 101–102
Ives, David, 199
Jaruzelski, General Wojciech, 244
Jenkins, Roy, 247
Jennings, Keith, 250
Jessop, Don, 200
Johannesburg, 64, 245
John Paul II, Pope, 243
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 120, 134, 137
Jones, Caroline, 3
Jones, Tony, 272
Jordan, 281
Jory, Denis, 153
Joseph, Sir Keith, 237
Journalism: accuracy, 154; bias, 239; censorship, 204; collaboration, 231; contact book, 218; covering the Cold War, 235; expressing opinions, 289; heroes, 289; interviews, 218; Long Lunch, 3; paranoia about intelligence agencies, 219; research resources, 218; in Tehran, 20; Twitter as a source, 286–9
Joyce, Daniel, 7
Joyce, Monica, 4, 6–7
Joyce, Tony, 3–4, 5–7, 13, 45
Kaunda, President, 5, 6
