‘MR NICHOLAS ELLIOTT’: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives (London, 1998), p. 311.
Chapter 3: Otto and Sonny
‘Something I owe’: Rudyard Kipling, Kim (London, 1994), Chapter 8.
‘penetration agent working’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxix.
‘the exquisite relish’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 291.
‘My ambition is fame’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 21.
‘constantly aware of his father’s’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 133.
‘He should always’: ibid., p. 134.
‘sudden conversion’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxx.
‘the inner fortress’: ibid., p. xxix.
‘I left the university’: ibid., p. xxxi.
‘I can hardly see him’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 183.
‘devote his life to the’: ibid.
‘at a crisis point’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 40.
‘tremendous little sexpot’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 159.
‘Actually quite warm’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 168.
‘Even though the basis’: Genrikh Borovik, ed. Phillip Knightly, The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby (London, 1994), p. 22.
‘I do hope Kim gets a job’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 162.
‘Excess can always’: ibid., p. 137.
‘man of decisive importance’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 169.
‘man of considerable’: ibid.
‘He was a marvellous man’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 29.
‘important and interesting work’: ibid., p. 25.
‘I trusted him’: ibid., p. 27.
‘prophet of the better orgasm’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 170.
‘a poor man’s sexual performance’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 163.
‘One does not look twice’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxxii.
‘Of all the passions’: C. S. Lewis, The Inner Ring, Memorial Lecture at King’s College, University of London, in 1944, collected in Mere Christianity (London, 2012).
‘My future looked romantic’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 28.
‘By background, education’: ibid.
‘The anti-fascist movement’: ibid.
‘real and palpable way’: ibid.
‘like poetry’: ibid., p. 33.
‘We have recruited the son’: ibid., p. 39.
‘What are his prospects’: ibid., p. 40.
‘the most interesting’: ibid., p. 52.
‘refers to his parents’: ibid., p. 147.
‘his marvellous education’: ibid., p. 31.
‘the remoter open spaces’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxix.
‘His wife was his first lover’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 148.
‘I sometimes felt’: ibid., p. 33.
‘I was certain that my life’: ibid., p. 31.
‘constant encouragement’: ibid.
‘Söhnchen comes from’: ibid., p. 43.
‘It’s amazing that’: ibid., p. 55.
‘Once you’re inside’: ibid., p. 56.
‘He has many friends’: ibid., p. 43.
‘profoundly repulsive’: ibid., p. 59.
‘in the eyes of my friends’: ibid.
‘how difficult it is to leave’: ibid.
‘It seems unlikely that’: ibid., pp. 52–3.
‘The people I could’: ibid., p. 46.
‘very serious and aloof’: ibid., p. 44.
‘Sonny has high praise’: ibid.
‘Very smart’: ibid., p. 44.
‘Do you think that’: ibid., p. 48.
‘I lost my faith’: Elisabeth K. Poretsky, Our Own People: A Memoir of ‘Ignace Reiss’ and His Friends (Oxford, 1969), p. 214.
‘shiny grey complexion’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 180.
‘an inspirational figure’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 194.
‘Both of them were intelligent’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 174.
‘handles our money’: ibid.
‘We have great difficulty’: ibid., p. 88.
‘unit strengths and locations’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 71.
‘a royalist of the most’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 111.
‘I would be lying’: ibid., pp. 111–12.
‘He works with great’: ibid., p. 129.
‘obviously been in the thick’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 260.
‘doing a very dangerous job’: ibid., p. 173.
‘important work for peace’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 169.
‘he could always’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.
‘Even if he had been able’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 89.
‘They are very pleased’: ibid., p. 95.
‘a decent chap’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 56.
‘I know that as a former priest’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 183.
‘infinite patience’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxix.
‘intelligent understanding’: ibid.
‘painstaking advice’: ibid.
‘marvellous men’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 29.
‘What’s going to happen’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 71.
‘activity in England’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 185.
‘I had been told in pressing’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxviii.
‘Where is the Café’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 143.
‘extraordinarily valuable’: ibid., p. 151
‘the appropriate hands’: ibid...the appropriate hands’: ibid..
Chapter 4: Boo, Boo, Baby, I’m a Spy
‘true sense of values’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 178.
‘His intellectual equipment’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 109.
‘an utter shit’: cited in Anthony Read and David Fisher, Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies (London, 1985), p. 361.
‘Vivian was long past’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 48.
‘He would murmur’: ibid., p. 69.
‘But behind the façade’: ibid.
‘The rewards of such unorthodoxy’: ibid., p. 70.
‘the only man in The Hotel’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 205.
‘golden lads’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 470.
‘You know as well as I do’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 490.
‘in the hurly-burly’: Guy Liddell, Diaries, KV4/466.
‘a pleasant personality’: ibid.
‘For every lead that produced’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 48.
‘monstrous’: ibid.
‘a model of economy’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 183.
‘I had the advantage’: ibid., p. 110.
‘an interesting and promising’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 167.
‘especially valuable’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 64.
‘few social graces’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels, p. 312.
‘inclined towards inertia’: ibid.
‘weakness [for] women’: ibid.
‘the weak link’: ibid., p. 313.
‘fat briefcase’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 48.
‘Her political views’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 208.
‘difficult, exhausting’: ibid., p. 28.
‘twinges of panic’: ibid., p. 203.
‘a young Englishman’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 267.
‘We told him he must’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 202.
‘About 58, 5 feet 6 inches’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels, p. 298.
‘There aren’t any’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. xii.
‘tenth on the list’: ibid., p. 167.
‘no Soviet citizens’: ibid., p. 210.
‘obvious absurdity’: ibid., p. 201.
‘highly suspicious’: ibid., p. 200.
‘dubiou
s’: ibid., p. 196.
‘tested and retested’: ibid., p. 204.
‘upside down’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 61.
‘to discuss the mystery’: ibid.
‘far outside the normal scope’: ibid.
‘another flood’: ibid.
‘Luck played an enormous’: ibid., p. 128.
‘cloistered’: ibid., p. 72.
‘those who sit at desks’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 15.
‘anxious to get away’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 111.
‘All foreigners are bloody’: ibid., p. 16.
‘I was delighted’: ibid., p. 111.
‘who was being sent’: ibid., p. 112.
‘well-stocked bar’: ibid.
‘the tattiest army officer’: ibid., p. 113.
‘the shortage of contraceptives’: ibid.
‘managed to alleviate’: ibid.
‘roving brothel’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 78.
‘two lonely Germans’: ibid.
‘delight’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 117.
‘pained tolerance’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 418.
‘great ability and energy’: ibid., p. 419.
‘one of the great espionage’: ibid., p. 417.
‘Everyone was well informed’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 122.
‘I’m involved in a dangerous game’: Barry Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues (New York, 1989), p. xvii.
‘not a kid glove affair’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 420.
‘crammed from top’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 120.
‘extremely erudite’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 73.
‘Its clientele’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 122.
‘white coloured skin’: ibid.
‘a ferocious dry martini’: ibid., p. 123.
‘spoke excellent English’: ibid.
‘the capacity for friendship’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 15.
‘A large amount’: ibid.
‘One particularly remarkable man’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 117.
‘a most unattractive’: ibid., p. 130.
‘operating a clandestine’: ibid.
‘was not altogether’: ibid.
‘more people involved’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 50.
‘All were kept under’: ibid., p. 51.
‘schoolboyish’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 109.
‘Bars, beards and blondes’: ibid.
‘the worst claret’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 177.
‘After three of Ellie’s’: ibid., p. 123.
‘hoping he didn’t mind’: ibid. p.126.
Chapter 5: Three Young Spies
‘two minutes from MI5’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 71.
‘the frowsty old’: Malcolm Muggeridge, book review of A Very Limited Edition, Esquire, May 1966, p. 84.
‘a notably bewildered’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 74.
‘a bunch of amateur bums’: ibid., p. 75.
‘They lost no opportunity’: ibid., p. 74.
‘pain in the neck’: ibid., p. 76.
‘formative years’: Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton – CIA’s Master Spy Hunter (London, 1991), p. 13.
‘more English than’: ibid., p. 12.
‘a mysterious person’: ibid., p. 13.
‘What a miracle’: Michael Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence (Boston, 2008), p. 83.
‘arts and crafts’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 298.
‘I do remember’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 49.
‘earned my respect’: Philby, My Silent War, pp. 150–1.
‘Philby may have felt’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 49.
‘Philby was one of Angleton’s’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 118.
‘Our European friends’: W. Bryher, The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940–1946 (New York, 1972), pp. ix-x.
‘as if they contained the secret of the Trinity’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 299.
‘restless appetite for organizing’: William Empson to James Angleton, 19 February 1940, quoted in Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 22.
‘extremely brilliant’: ibid., p. 45.
‘Once I met Philby’: Joseph J.Trento, The Secret History of the CIA (New York, 2001), p. 37.
‘an almost total moron’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels, p. 311.
‘We had achieved’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 78.
‘in all intelligence matters’: ibid., p. 80.
‘beginning to make a career’: ibid., p. 79.
‘I regarded my SIS’: ibid., p. xxix.
‘incomprehensible’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 272.
‘A straight penetration’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxix.
‘He is lying to us’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. xiv.
‘He was so completely’: Yuri Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller (New York, 1995), p. 201.
‘in such a manner’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 218.
‘single-front struggle’: ibid., p. xi.
‘modest bit towards’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 128.
‘Moody and nervous’: Vermehren file, TNA KV 2/956.
‘The city is riddled’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 224.
‘specialised in making Britons’: ibid.
‘I remembered him vividly’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 135.
‘small roundish man’: ibid.
‘instantly dismissed’: ibid.
‘The information obtained’: ibid., p. 133.
‘If he had not been a spy’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 164.
‘penchant for involving’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 120.
‘The names of the Azerbaijanis’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 227.
‘the Arab cause depended’: ibid., p. 225.
‘Twelve-land, Twelve-land’: ibid., p. 201.
Chapter 6: The German Defector
‘unfit to represent’: Erich Vermehren, obituary by Richard Bassett, The Independent, 3 May 2005.
‘Erich Vermehren?’: Richard Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery (London, 2006), p. 280.
‘I had a sense’: ibid.
‘signs of instability’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 315.
‘a highly strung’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 504.
‘intensely anti-Nazi’: ibid.
‘fully convinced’: ibid.
‘the complete Abwehr setup’: ibid.
‘quantity of detailed information’: ibid.
‘it would not be long’: ibid.
‘a hell of flap’: ibid., p. 505.
‘lest his disappearance’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 232.
‘he was given breakfast’: ibid.
‘swamped by an invasion’: ibid.
‘gravely prejudiced the activities’: ibid., p. 229.
‘exceedingly tedious’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 126.
‘They are so God-awful conscientious’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 42.
‘I don’t mind telling you’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 127.
‘obstacle race with frequent jumps’: ibid.
‘German-Turkish intelligence’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues, p. 228.
‘The twenty-four-year-old attaché’: Associated Press, 9 February 1945.
‘If an enemy alien’: Liddell, Diaries, KV4/466.
‘outstanding blow’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 504.
‘exploded’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 315.
‘hardly surprising given’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief, p. 282.
‘thrown into a state of confusion’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 505.
‘consummate skill and sympathy’: ibid.
‘dine out’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.
‘formidably impressed both by’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 81. There is some confusion over where Elliott and Angleton first met. Elliott recalled that Angleton came to stay with him Switzerland in
1946, but it seems more likely, according to his family and other sources, that their first encounter was in London a year earlier, during the period of the Vermehren debriefing.
‘Beneath the rather sinister’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 81.
‘At that time, secrets’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 62.
‘Sit down, I’d like to have’ to’Because the Chief told him’: Elliott, My Little Eye, pp. 17–18.
‘For centuries the Office’: Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935–1990 (London, 1995), p. 85.
‘of all their contacts’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief, p. 23.
‘leading Catholic activists’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 110.
‘could have formed the backbone’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 328.
‘All had been deported’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief, p. 23.
‘Because Moscow had decided’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 110.
‘drive against the Catholic Church’: TNA KV 4/469.
‘I was responsible for the deaths’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 128.
Chapter 7: The Soviet Defector
‘We’ve been penetrated’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 66.
‘the next enemy’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 92.
‘professional handling of any cases’: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev (eds), Triplex: Secrets from the Cambridge Five (Yale, 2009), p. 115.
‘provided you do not do anything’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 566.
‘I must do everything’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 94.
‘Cowgill must go’: ibid.
‘great warmth’: ibid., p. 100.
‘the idea was his own’: ibid.
‘At one stroke’: Robert Cecil in Christopher Andrew and D. Dilks (eds), The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century (London, 1984), p. 179.
‘The new appointment’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 236.
‘jovial, kindly man’: ibid., p. 177.
‘a splendid professional’: ibid.
‘unburden’: ibid.
‘I must thank you’: ibid., p. 237.
‘After the gloom of London’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 141.
‘not only our best source on Germany’: Tony Paterson, ‘Germany finally honours the “traitor” spy’, Independent, 25 September 2004.
‘Communists and communism’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 49.
‘over one thousand enemy’: Ted Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster (New York, 1999), p. 257.
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