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2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Costello, Mask of Treachery, p. 476.
5. U.S. Senate, report of the Committee on the Judiciary, Report on the IPR: Report no. 2050, 83d Congress, 2nd Section, p. 97.
6. Letters from Edward C. Carter to W. L. Holland, May 6, 1940, reproduced in IPR Hearings, p. 3924; and IPR Hearings, p. 3794.
7. Hearing before the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board, pp. 6, 19–20.
8. Interview with former CIA agent Newton Miler, July 1977; also FBI file, 1963-75.
9. Straight, Nancy Hanks, p. 46.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
CHAPTER 21: CAREER CHANGE
1. Interview with Cord Meyer, October 1996.
2. Meyer, Facing Realities, pp. 125–126.
3. Interview with Cord Meyer, October 1996.
4. New Republic, February 4, 1957.
5. Interview with Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight, July 1996.
6. Vidal, Palimpsest, p. 11.
7. Interview with William Elmhirst, August 1997.
8. Transcript of Michael Straight interview with John Milton, p. 122.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 124.
12. Dench, Flower, and Gavron, eds., Young at Eighty, p. 157.
13. Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy, pp. 150–151. Italics added.
14. Interviews with Nina Straight; also interviews with William Elmhirst, August 1997.
CHAPTER 22: THREATS FROM THE PAST
1. Interview with family members, July 1996.
2. Interview with Nina Straight, September 1996.
3. See Straight, Happy and Hopeless, especially the first three chapters. Jackie trusted Straight and asked him to sit next to her daughter Caroline’s prospective mother-in-law, Mae Schlossberg, at the wedding dinner at Hyannis in July 1968. Straight appreciated the honor. In 1981 Jackie bought a property at Martha’s Vineyard just two miles from Straight’s home. This maintained their long-term friendship, as did Straight’s marriage to Jackie’s stepsister Nina.
4. Straight, After Long Silence, p. 315.
CHAPTER 23: FIRST IN . . .
1. Wright, Spycatcher, pp. 174–180.
2. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000.
3. Straight, After Long Silence, p. 316.
4. Ibid., pp. 317–318.
5. Ibid., p. 318.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Interview with Verne Newton, who was told of JFK’s comments by Walton, July 1996.
9. Straight, After Long Silence, p. 320.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 322.
12. Ibid.
13. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000.
14. Ibid.
15. Interview with Lord Longford, March 1983.
16. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000.
17. The source for the possible Rose-Niarchos link is a New York lawyer.
18. Straight, After Long Silence, p. 323.
19. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000. Mary had left Cord in 1957 and moved into a town house on Georgetown’s N Street, the favored district of Washington’s political leaders, journalists and lobbyists. She was a painter and regarded as a liberated woman for the time. Now single, she took many lovers, including the abstract painter, Kenneth Noland. She confided to one-time vice-president of the Washington Post, James Truitt, that she had an affair with Kennedy. Mary kept a diary and it detailed her time with him. According to one of her closest companions, she had a strong theory about the reasons for Kennedy’s assassination, which distressed her.
20. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000.
21. Straight, After Long Silence, p. 323.
CHAPTER 24: BLUNT REVELATIONS
1. Straight, After Long Silence, p. 324.
2. Ibid., pp. 324–325.
3. Ibid., p. 325.
4. Penrose and Freeman, Conspiracy of Silence, chapter 18.
5. Wright, Spycatcher, p. 222.
6. Peter Wright spoke of his close confidences with Rothschild to the author and to Wright’s manager, Peter Murray. Wright wrote of the shared secrets in Spycatcher.
7. Wright described himself this way in handling Blunt’s interrogation. See Wright, Spycatcher, p. 222.
8. Wright, Spycatcher, p. 223.
9. Straight, After Long Silence, pp. 325–328.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Interviews with several MI5 and CIA operatives, 1996 and 1997.
14. Sources include former royal household employees, Sir Allen Lascelles, the former private secretary to King George VI, Peter Wright, and Yuri Modin.
15. Reports from the Washington Post, including the July 4, 1973, edition, and the Evening Star edition of February 18, 1965.
16. Straight, Caravaggio, p. xxiii.
17. Paper written by John Slavin for the author.
18. For more on Alister Watson, see Perry, The Fifth Man.
19. Information supplied by family members.
20. Interview with William Elmhirst, August 1996. Straight visited Dartington Hall in late October 1968 and told the family about political events in the United States in 1968.
21. Ibid.
CHAPTER 25: ARTS AT LAST
1. Straight, Twigs for an Eagle’s Nest, especially the chapter titled “Present at the Creation.”
2. Ibid.
3. Straight, Nancy Hanks, p. 112.
4. Perry, The Fifth Man, pp. 485–487.
5. Straight, Twigs for an Eagle’s Nest, p. 114.
6. Interview with William Elmhirst, August 1996.
7. Straight, Twigs for an Eagle’s Nest, especially the chapter titled “Present at the Creation.”
8. Ibid., p. 8.
9. Ibid., p. 86.
10. Ibid., pp. 37–42.
11. Interview with Peter Wright, December 1989; interview with an MI5 officer, August 1997; interview with John Costello, November 1993.
12. Interview with William Elmhirst, August 1996.
13. For example, Leonard Elmhirst’s essay “About My Father,” December 26, 1960.
14. Interview with William Elmhirst, August 1996.
15. Ibid.
16. Straight, Nancy Hanks, chapter titled “Working Under Jimmy Carter.”
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Daily Mail, March 24, 1981.
20. Straight, After Long Silence, p. 330.
21. People Magazine, September 1981.
22. Interview with Lord Young, September 1996.
23. BBC TV interview, Michael Straight with Ludovic Kennedy.
24. William Safire, “The Michael Straight Story,” New York Times, January 10, 1983.
25. Sidney Hook, “The Incredible Story of Michael Straight,” Encounter, February 1983.
26. Interview with Newton Miler, October 1996.
27. Via Internet—1: Cold War Spies and Espionage; 2: Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American response, and links; 3: Nova On-line, and links.
CHAPTER 26: A REUNION OF OLD COMRADES
1. Interview with Tess Rothschild, November 1993; interviews with Peter Wright, November 1989; interviews with members of the class of 1937, August and September 1996.
2. BBC Radio 3, “Sunday feature,” May 26, 1996.
3. Information in correspondence with family members, October 1996, from Simon Coates.
4. Ibid.
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INDEX
Abt, John
Acheson, Dean
ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union
Adeane, Michael
Adler, Solomon
After Long Silence (Straight)
Alsop, Joe
Amerasia offices raid
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
American League against War and Fascism
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
American Veterans Committee (AVC)
American Youth Congress
Amnesty International
Angleton, James
Anthony Blunt, His Lives (Carter)
Antiques magazine
Apostles
Ariabella: The First (Nina Straight)
Ash, Maurice
Astbury, Peter
Auchincloss, Nina Gore. See also Steers, Nina
Baker, Alan
Baldwin, Joseph Clark III
Baldwin, Roger
Barkovsky, Vladimir
Barnato-Walker, Diana
Barr, Margaret
Basoff, Sergei
Bend, Beatrice
Bentley, Elizabeth
Beria, Lavrenty
Berlin, Isaiah
Biddle, Livingston L.
Blaine, Anita McCormick
Blaine, Nancy
Bliven, Bruce
Blunt, Anthony as art critic background betrayal of Straight Burgess/Maclean defection death of espionage and espionage/desire to leave exposure of homosexuality of interrogations of King’s mission of Korean conflict and monarchy protection of recruitment/influence on Straight Straight/Barbara Rothschild and Straight’s explanation of links to student trip to Russia suspicions about visits with Straight
Blunt, Wilfrid
Bohr, Niels
Borovik, Genrihk
Boyle, Andrew
Brezhnev, Leonid
Bridges, Harry
Browder, Earl