by Mark Colvin
Kays, General, 78
Keating, Paul, 217
Keeler, Christine, 101–102
Keeley, Charles, 123, 125, 146, 148
Kennedy, President John, 102, 114
Kerr, Sir John, 200, 203, 219
Khalkhali, Ayatollah, 35, 36–7
Khamenei, Ayatollah, 15–17, 27, 33
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 3, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 25, 26, 27, 33, 35, 39, 41, 43, 45
Khrushchev, Nikita, 69, 75, 76, 252, 261–2
kidney transplant, 276
Kim, Mr, 22–3
Kimsey, Gill, 7
Knickerbocker Club, New York, 221
Knight, Ben, 286
Konfrontasi, 84, 103
Kuala Lumpur, 81–3
Kurdish Peshmerga, 41, 42
Kurdistan see Republic of Iranian Kurdistan
Kuwait (Iraq invasion), 280
Labour Party (UK): Blackpool conference 1980, 238, 239; leadership contest, 239–40; Left/Right split, 238; Militant Tendency (Trotskyites), 238–9
Langtry, John, 151, 185
Lateline, 274
Lawlor, Éamonn, 168
Lawson, Mark: The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places, 264
Lawson, Ros, 194
Leach, Admiral Sir Henry, 247–8
Lemoine, Georges, 265
Lennon, John, 100, 114, 193, 197
Les (Tehran), 21–2, 28, 42, 45
Leyne, John, 287
Liddell, Dean, 122
Lillis, Charles, 154
Lin Biao, 165–6, 167–8
Live Aid, 277–8, 279
Liverpool, 100, 238, 247
Livesey, Geoffrey, 132–3
Lloyd, Joe, 292
Lloyd, Owen, 186, 187
Lockyer, Paul, 229
Logue, Peter, 228
London: Brixton riots, 247; Broadcasting House, 7; Broadway Buildings, 68–9; Century House, 69, 222; Iranian embassy crisis, 12, 41, 236; mid-190s, 134; paedophiles, 124; see also Chelsea; Westminster School
Long Lunch, 3
Love, Les, 187–8
Lowe, Nick, 217, 275
Lucas, Professor Scott, 71–2
Lushington, Stephen, 123
Lyneham, Paul, 231, 269
Lyons, John, 287
MacCallum, Mungo, 199
McCutcheon, Sandy, 208
MacDonald, Ian, 248
McDonald, Jamie, 220
McGirvan, Alan, 197
Macintyre, Ben: A Spy among Friends, 61
McKendry, Derek, 4–5, 6, 7
McKenzie, Kelvin, 248
Maclean, Donald, 50, 53, 69
Maclean, Fitzroy, 51
Macmillan, Harold, 59, 101, 237
McPhee, John, 221
McPherson, Lenny (‘Mr Big’), 185
Maguire, Dave, 274
Mahabad, Kurdistan, 41, 42, 43
Major, John, 111
Malaya: concerns about Sukarno, 84; federation planned, 84; leaving for boarding school, 91; members, 84; sailing to, 79–80; school holidays, 102
Malaya’s Secret Police 1945–60: The Role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency (Comber), 83
Malayan Emergency, 82–3
Mandela, Nelson, 289
Maniaty, Tony, 194, 205–6
Manifold, Walford, 88
Manning, Peter, 272, 273
Manson murders, 207, 208
Mao Tse-Tung, 151, 161, 162, 165, 167
Marston, Pat, 94–5, 96
Mary, Queen, 79
Masters, Chris, 189, 265, 272, 277
Matabeleland, 246
Maxwell, Robert, 273
Mengistu, Colonel, 277–8, 279
Mental As Anything (band), 217
Menzies, Bruce, 190
Menzies, Robert, 225
MI5: domestic role, 222; MI6 views on, 70; views on Philby, 70
MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service), 9, 221–2; Buster Crabb affair, 69–70; ‘C’s’ office, 69; father with, 118; history of (Corera), 56, 69; Sinclair, 70; stories in press, 224; and Suez affair, 71; views on MI5, 70; vulnerability, 69; White, 60, 70
MI6 agents: ‘aftercare’, 235; Blake betrays, 59, 60; defenders of Philby, 70; defections, 69; Eden’s view of, 70; London base, 68–9; recruitment, 69; retirement age, 114; tasks, 56; training (Kim’s Game), 130
MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (Corera), 56
Middleton, Jim, 196, 199–200, 264
Milligan, Spike, 110
Milovanovic, Vladimir, 169–70
Mondilibi homestead, Western District, 90
Mongolia, 151, 152, 155, 156–8; Altai Mountains, 175, 177–8; arkhi (alcohol), 174–5; British Embassy, 166–7, 178–80, 218; diplomatic bags, 179; father’s love of, 171; father’s role, 167–8, 172–8; first impressions, 166; horse-breaking, 176–7; hospitality and food, 173–4; Hovd encounter, 172; hunting, 176; intelligence gathering, 166–7; Langtry, 151; livestock, 170–1; Milovanovic, 169–70; overland to Peking, 180–1; population, 170; religion, 169; sheep’s ear, 174; Soviet influences, 169, 170, 171; transport, 175; Ulan Bator, 151, 292; winter, 169–70
Mongolian Airways, 172
Monnas, Alex, 155
Moore, Davey, 231
Moore, Dudley, 111, 133
Moscow assignment: beaver project, 254–5; city, 252; computerisation, 254, 255; father’s warnings about, 250; foreign goods and money, 252; gas pipeline, 253–4; inconveniences, 252; interpreter/minder, 251–3, 254; metro system, 253; nuclear power station, 254; searched on departure, 256–7; translator Daphne, 255–6; under surveillance, 253, 255
Moss, Ron, 194
Mossadeq, Mohammad, 9, 17, 226
‘Mr Big’ (Lenny McPherson), 185
‘Mr Sin’ (Abe Saffron), 185
Mugabe, Robert, 4, 246
Mujahideen, 17, 29, 25–6
Muldoon, Robert ‘Piggy’, 227
Mullins, Paul: The Week in State Parliament, 188
Murdoch, Rupert, 204, 214, 276
Murphy, Paul, 230, 250; eulogy for Joyce, 7; Nationwide, 3–4
Music: Double J, 193, 197, 210–11, 212; New Wave, 217; 1970s, 212; punk, 211–12, 217; radio bans, 212
Namibian refugees, 273–4
Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdel, 70–2
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, 223
Nationwide, 2–3, 4, 230–1
NBC network, Tehran, 24, 33
Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence, Haslam, 60
Nestor (ship), 64
New World Order, 280
New York, 220; Knickerbocker Club, 221; 9/11 anniversary (spoken) report, 284–6; Union Square wall, 284–6
Newport, Peter, 240
News of the World hacking, 97, 276
Nielsen, Juanita, 185
Nile, Fred, 194, 213 9/11 anniversary (spoken) report, 284–6
Nixon, President Richard, 137, 160
Nkomo, Joshua, 4
Noone, Colonel Dick, 83–4
North Vietnam, 115, 118, 119, 128, 129–30, 132, 134–7
Northern Ireland: Belfast riots, 240–1; gumboot-throwing, 242; hunger striker funeral, 240, 241–2
Nott, John, 247, 248
Novak, Robert, 224
Noyce, Philip, 209
nuclear reactor, Chernobyl, 267–8
nuclear war threat, 120, 264
oil: Britain and Iran, 9; Suez crisis, 70–2, 75, 80
Old Parliament House, 187; press gallery, 229
Olle, Andrew, 230
Omar al-Bashir, 280
One of Us (Young), 236
OPEC reporting, 264
Operation ‘Eagle Claw’, Tehran, 30, 31–7
Operation ‘Rolling Thunder’, Vietnam, 134
Ophüls, Marcel, 260, 261
Oram, Jim, 228
Orange, NSW, 189–90
Otto (dog), 48, 57
Oxford University: College art collection, 152; Christ Church, 122, 148, 151–4; cottage, Stanton St John, 154; friendships, 154–5
; lifestyle, 152–3; place offered, 148; River House, 154–5; transport, 154; tutorial system, 152
Packer, Kerry, 214; World Series Cricket, 217
Palfreyman, Richard, 3, 231
Pandya, Amit, 155
Paris: holiday, 113; Gorbachev visit, 265, 266; terrorist bombs, 265
Park, Daphne: biography (Queen of Spies), 57, 118, 129, 292; SIS, Vienna, 57
Parry, Gareth, 249
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 209, 210
passport, diplomatic, 2, 5, 13, 157
Pearl River, 158
Peel, Quentin, 268
Peking: crowds intimidating, 162; Forbidden City, 160, 162; ‘Gansu Flying Horse’, 160; in 1970s, 159–60; Peking duck, 163; Red Guards, 161; shopping, 162; Summer Palace, 161–2
Penfold, Robert, 269
Penlington, John, 2–3, 230
People’s Liberation Army (China), 157, 158, 165
‘permissive society’, 198
Petrov Affair, 225–6
Philby, Kim, 53, 59, 69, 70, 222; ‘cleared’ as double agent, 60–1; friendship with Elliott, 60, 61–2; Observer correspondent, 61
Phillips, Keri, 200
photography: for Falmouth Packet, 153–4; learning the trade at ANU, 149
Plenel, Edwy, 265
Poland: Catholic Church, 243; Gdańsk, 243–4; interpreter, 244; Solidarity Trade Union, 76, 243, 244; Wałęsa, Lech, 243–4; Warsaw, 242–3
police bribery, NSW, 185
Pop, Iggy, 217
pop music, 1960s, 100–101
Port Said, 80
Pretoria, 245
Profumo scandal, 101–102
public speaking, 127
punk music, 211–12, 217
Qassemlou, Dr, 42
Qotbzadeh, 30
Queen of Spies (Hayes), 57, 118, 129, 292
Queen’s Messengers, 157–8, 159, 160, 163, 166, 179
Radio Current Affairs: Brussels correspondent, 250, 251, 265–6, 268–9; The World Today, 251, 284
radio, commercial: blacklist, 193; pseudonyms, 193; 2JJ, 192, 193; 2SM, 192–3
Rahman, Tunku Abdul, 83
Rainbow Warrior, 265
Reagan, Ronald, 31, 32, 46, 222, 235, 236, 245, 258, 259, 263, 264; security after shooting, 266; summit with Gorbachev, 266; and Thatcher, 262
Reid, Alan (‘Silver Fox’), 187
Reid, Frank, 229
Renton, Alex, 98
Republic of Iranian Kurdistan, 35, 42–3; Kurdish Peshmarga, 41, 42
Reuters TV, 233
Revill, Stuart, 5; on shooting of Joyce, 6
Reykjavik meeting, 235
Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 9–10, 11
Rhodesia, 4; see also Zimbabwe
River House, Oxford, 154–5
Robertson, Clive, 188
Rockefeller, David, 234–5
Rolling Stones, 6, 100, 141, 192, 207
Roosevelt, Franklin, 277
Roosevelt, Kermit, 226
Ross, Harold, 221
Ross, Peter, 231
Royle, Martin, 190
Rue, Mike, 191
Rwanda assignment, 276
Saffron, Abe (‘Mr Sin’), 185
Saffron, Alan, 185
Sakharov, Andrei, 289
San Francisco, 134, 220, 223, 224, 243
Sands, Bobby, 240, 241–2
Saqqez, 42
Saudi Arabia, 281–2
Saugman, Peter, 153
Savage, Patrick, 94, 96, 97
SAVAK (Iranian secret service), 10
Savile, Jimmy, 104
Savva, Niki, 188
Schepisi, Fred, 209
schooling, England: ‘blubbing’, 95; bullying, 97–8; Chelsea Froebel School, 77, 79; corporal punishment, 92, 97, 121; discipline, 93–8; ‘fagging’, 121–2; friendships, 98; learning to cope, 99–100; letters home, 95; sex education, 138–9; ‘sneaking’, 95, 97; sport, 96; teachers, 92, 93–4, 96–8, 104–105; transistor radios, 99–100
Scoop (Waugh), 242
Scorsese, Martin, 209
Sebastian, Tim, 244, 262
Secret Intelligence Service see MI6
Semmler, Clement, 194, 213, 214
Seneslet, Germay, 279 7.30 Report, 274
sex education, 101, 138–9
Seymour, Les, 1, 2, 7, 14, 22, 40, 233, 240, 254, 263
Shah of Iran, 3, 9, 10–11, 27, 28
Shaughnessy, Freddie and Jean, 80
Shaw, Phillip, 166
‘shoe-fitting fluoroscope’, 92
Shore, Peter, 239
shorthand course, 185, 186
signals intelligence, 167
Silkin, John, 239
Simpson, John, 269, 286–7
Sinclair, John, 70
SIS see MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service)
Sisman, Adam, xi, 53, 292–3
Sixsmith, Martin, 268
Sixty Minutes, 231
Skyhooks, 192, 193
Smith, David, 200
Snedden, Billy, 188, 196
Snow, Jon, 12, 13
Snow, Tony, 248
Solidarity Trade Union, 76, 243, 244
‘Son Of Sam’ (Berkowitz), 211
‘sound-bite journalism’, 240
South Africa: apartheid, 10, 246, 273–4, 289; BOSS (intelligence service), 10, 245; ‘homelands’, 245; Johannesburg, 64, 245; Sun City, 245, 246
Soviet Union: aid to Ethiopia, 277; Chernenko, 252, 261, 262; Chernobyl, 267–8; collapse of empire, 277; and Czechoslovakia, 76, 243; future problems, 282–3; and Hungary, 75–6; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with US, 266; Khrushchev, 69, 75, 76, 252, 261–2; Stalin, 55–6, 75, 76, 253; see also Gorbachev, Mikhail; Moscow assignment
Soviet Union, espionage: buffer states, 55–6; post-war Vienna, 55–6, 57; see also Blake; Burgess; Maclean; Philby
Soweto, 245
Stalin, Joseph, 55–6, 75, 76, 253
Stevas, Norman St John, 236; The Two Cities, 1984, 237
Stewart, Brian, 135
Stewart, Rod, 197, 212
Suez crisis, 70–2, 75, 80
Suharto, President, 206
Sukarno, President, 84, 103
Summer Fields Preparatory School, UK, 92–102, 121
‘Summer of Love’, 141, 207
Sydney: Hilton bombing, 25, 227–9; house in Coogee, 185; 1970s, 217
Synnot, Amanda, 144
Synnot, Jane, 144
Synnot, Tony (stepfather), 142, 144; chief of naval staff, 218; and disaster responses, 150; personality, 150, 151; a role model, 150
Talking Heads, 217
Tallinn, Estlonia, 256
Tancred, Mike, 269
tape recorders, 19–20, 184, 186
Taylor, Mrs (nanny), 166
Tebbit, Norman, 237–8
‘techno-hackery’, 7
Tehran, 286–7; alcohol, 21, 22–3; anti-Americanism, 40; black-market caviar, 21–2; car bombings, 25; crowds attack Australians, 40; demonstrations, 39; difficulties of journalism, 19; economic problems, 26; fall of the Shah, 3, 27, 28; Fedayeen, 17, 25–6, 28, 29–30; film about lost, 43, 46; foreign reporters, 18; Hezbollahi, 26, 28; Hussein invades, 38; Intercontinental Hotel, 17–18, 19, 20–2, 24; international sanctions, 38; Les, 21–2, 28, 42, 45; Mujahideen, 17, 25–6, 29; Operation ‘Eagle Claw’, 30, 31–7; personal safety, 18; Revolutionary Courts, 35; Revolutionary Guards, 36, 40; student riots, 25; talking about afterwards, 46; see also Khamenei, Ayatollah; Khomeini, Ayatollah
television and music: censorship, 213–14; 1980s, 133
telex, 18, 184
Temple, John, 231
Thatcher, Margaret, 1, 234, 263; Cabinet, 236; endorses Gorbachev, 262; and Falklands War, 247–8, 249; government leaks, 237; and miners union, 246; nicknames for, 236; ‘One of Us’, 236; opposition to, 238; and Reagan, 262; and Wets, 238
‘Thatcherism’, 234, 235, 239, 240, 249
The Art of Betrayal (Corera), 69
The Australian, 204
The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the
Safe Places (Lawson), 264
The Beatles, 99, 100–101, 104, 109, 133, 134, 148, 207
The Falcon and the Snowman, 219
The Forgotten Famine (film), 278
The Guardian, 7, 249, 268
The Kinks (band), 224
The Lion’s Last Roar (Cooper), 72
The National Times, 273
The Sorrow and the Pity (film), 260, 261
‘The State Department’ shop, Hanoi, 52
The Spectator, 225
The Sports, 217
The Two Cities (Stevas, 1984), 237
The War Game (film), 120–1
The World at One (BBC), 251
The World Today, 251, 284
This Day Tonight, 3, 184, 187, 213, 230
This is the ABC, 213
This Week in State Parliament, 188
Thornthwaite, Ines, 64
Tigray, 277; The Forgotten Famine (film), 278
Tito, 51, 54
Titov, Gherman, 129
Tolkien, Christopher, 152
Trans-Siberian Railway, 163–6
transistor radios, 99–100
Trimbole, Craig, 270
Trimbole, Robert, scoop of his death, 269–71
Trioli, Virginia, 284
Tulloh, John, 269, 271
Tutu, Desmond, 289
Twice around the World, 52, 115, 117, 134; vetted by SIS, 166–7, 235
Twitter as a source, 286–9
2JJ radio station, 192, 193
2SM radio station, 192–3, 207
Uganda, 245
Ulan Bator, 292; father ambassador to, 151; Lamaist Gandan Monastery, 169
United Kingdom: Advisory Mission to South Vietnam, 84; Blackpool conference, 238, 239; Bristol unrest, 233–4; Brixton riots, 247; economy, 1980, 238; government leaks, 237; Hanoi Consulate, 117–18; and Iranian oil, 9; Labour Party, 238–40; loss of empire, 76; post-colonial attitudes, 8; status post-war, 72; ‘The Wets’, 236, 237; see also London; Oxford University; schooling (England); Thatcher, Margaret
United States of America: access to father’s despatches, 134; CIA, 71, 222; embassy hostage crisis, 24–5, 30, 31–5; failed raid on Iran, 45; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, 266; Mr Kim (restaurateur), 22; Operation Eagle Claw, 30, 31–7; Operation Rolling Thunder, 134; and Shah of Iran, 10, 11; Vietnam involvement, 127; see also New York; San Francisco; Washington
‘Venona decrypts’, 226
Verges, Jacques, 260, 261
Vienna: espionage and intelligence, 56–7; partition, 65; post-war, 55–6
‘Vienna Tunnel’, 59–60
Vietnam: British Advisory Mission to South Vietnam, 84; British Consulate, Hanoi, 117–18; coded messages, 134–6; diplomatic bags, 136–7; US access to father’s despatches, 134
Vietnam War, 120; anxiety about father, 127; Johnson ceases bombing, 137; opposition to, 127; US involvement, 127, 134
Villiers, John, 67, 104
