‘his personal adviser’: Seale and McConville, Philby, pp. 295–6.
‘He was a thin, spare man’: ibid., p. 295.
‘put Kim to work’: ibid., p. 296.
‘serving two masters’: interview with former Economist correspondent.
‘mainly political and personality’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 492.
‘reports about political developments’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.
‘They used to meet once or twice’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 3.
‘Oh boy’: ibid., p. 52.
‘greater participation in the British’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 298.
‘keep an eye on Philby’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.
‘Elliott’s overt and innocent friendship’: ibid.
‘I had begun to feel that Kim’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 3.
‘broker a deal with the director’: Dorril, MI6, pp. 670–1.
‘In all he served us well’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 480.
‘He was one of the few adults’: interview with Mark Elliott, 17 October 2013.
‘ski in the mornings’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 166.
‘promised to look after it’: Lycett, Ian Fleming, p. 376.
‘an Armenian’: ibid.
‘arranged to see a pornographic film’: ibid.
‘at parties for British diplomats’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.
‘Out of fun rather than malice’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 184.
‘caused a chain reaction’: ibid.
‘It was at a cocktail party’: ibid.
‘He had no inhibitions’: ibid.
‘fierce martini’: ibid., p. 187.
‘recognised as the dominant’: Richard Helms, A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency (New York, 2003), p. 275.
‘and used those opportunities’: Trento, The Secret History of the CIA, p. 274. No documentary record of these contacts survives, which indicates that either they did not take place, or Angleton destroyed the evidence.
‘He travelled regularly’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 44.
‘whose brain was there’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 477.
‘all he had to do’: ibid., p. 478.
‘much too sophisticated’: ibid.
‘liked to talk to Philby’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 335.
‘Philby was friendly with all the Yanks’: George Young, quoted in Sunday Times, 15 May 1988.
‘The United States had to face’: Miles Copeland in George Lenczowski, American Presidents and the Middle East (Duke, 1990), p. 6.
‘known and liked’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 486.
‘better than anyone else’: Miles Copeland, Without Cloak or Dagger: The Truth About the New Espionage (New York, 1974), p. 146.
‘a humorous and highly intelligent’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 68.
‘Generous, outrageous, always fun’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 106.
‘one of the most indiscreet men’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 68.
‘I could trust him with any secret’: ibid.
‘keep an eye on Philby’: Copeland, Without Cloak or Dagger, p. 212.
‘report signs that he might’: ibid., p. 146.
‘still practising his old tradecraft’: ibid., p. 212.
‘entertaining and colourful invention’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 69.
‘a melodious voice’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 53.
‘lapping up’: ibid., p. 5.
‘She was affectionate’: ibid.
‘hopelessly endearing’: ibid.
‘happiest years’: ibid., p. 51.
Chapter 16: A Most Promising Officer
‘treated with the deference’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 46.
‘Elizabeth and I were among’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.
‘drew the old man out’: ibid.
‘memorable occasion’: ibid.
‘left at tea time’: ibid.
‘God, I’m bored’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 495.
‘a mixture of love and hate’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.
‘not completely well in the head’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 203.
‘If you feel strongly enough’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.
‘thunderstruck, but by no means disapproving’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 132.
‘went out of circulation’: ibid.
‘He drank himself senseless’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 47.
‘Kim seemed overwhelmed’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 33.
‘a most promising officer’: Roger Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake (London, 2013), p. 221.
‘A good-looking fellow’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 501.
‘it was the relentless bombing’: Ian Irvine, ‘George Blake: I Spy a British Traitor’, Independent, 1 October 2006.
‘I felt I was on the wrong side’: ibid.
‘He doesn’t belong in the service’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 261.
‘man of no class’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 56.
‘He was in love with her’: ibid., p. 61.
‘ninety per cent sure’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 263.
‘to London immediately’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 221.
‘whether Blake would like’: ibid.
‘In the course of conversation’: ibid., p. 222.
‘Moscow saw no cause for concern’: ibid.
‘would be more convenient’: ibid., p. 223.
‘For a moment a shadow’: ibid.
‘a few matters had cropped up’: ibid., p. 226.
‘I was in deep trouble’: ibid., p. 227.
‘It wasn’t hostile’: ibid.
‘No, nobody tortured me!’: ibid., p. 229.
‘The game was up’: ibid.
‘the biggest hammer possible’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 268.
‘The following name is a traitor’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 236.
‘It can happen to anyone’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 269.
‘Your case is one of the worst’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 250.
‘I went round to his flat’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, pp. 33–4.
‘Kim would become insulting’: ibid., p. 31.
‘not light-hearted about drink’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 5.
‘By the next day he was usually forgiven’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 31.
‘I know all about your Wednesday nights’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 301.
‘You know Moyra’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 32.
‘What would you do’: ibid.
‘something awful’: ibid.
‘What’s the matter?’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 5.
‘Kim seemed to give himself’: ibid., p. 6.
‘out of all proportion’: ibid.
‘shattered’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 187.
‘Apart from when his father died’: ibid.
‘the most valuable defector’: Caroline Rand Herron and Michael Wright, ‘A KGB defector who may not be’, New York Times, 2 February 1986.
‘very important spy network’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 435.
‘exhibited increasing signs’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 193.
‘Modin had gone to Beirut to alert Philby’: ibid.
‘a shadow of his former self’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 236.
‘To warn Philby not to return’: Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (London, 1999), p. 440.
‘belly laughs’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.
‘Of course he’s a traitor’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 293.
; Chapter 17: I Thought it Would Be You
‘Russian soul, Jewish heart’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 229.
‘To anyone with eyes’: ibid., p. 225.
‘The thought occurred to me’: ibid.
‘dangerous work in hazardous’: London Gazette, 4 April 1944.
‘How is it the Observer uses’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.
‘very dangerous job for peace’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.
‘intuitive feeling that Harris’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.
‘the terrible way he treated’: Peter Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.
‘You must do something’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.
‘I will think about it’: ibid.
‘major breakthrough’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 172.
‘a strange, rather untrustworthy woman’: ibid., p. 173.
‘She clearly had a grudge’: ibid.
‘I will never give public evidence’: ibid.
‘It will leak, I know it will leak’: ibid.
‘Why didn’t she tell us’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 294.
‘I had not volunteered information’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.
‘how clubmanship and the old school tie’: ibid., p. 227.
‘far too wily’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 473.
‘We need to discover what damage’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 295.
‘should be treated as a gentleman’: ibid.
‘Keep a lid on things’: ibid., p. 294.
‘voluminous brief in preparation’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.
‘is the greatest dissembler’: John le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim (London, 1990), Part II.
‘happily have killed him’: interview with Mark Elliott, 11 November 2013.
‘there was more chance that Philby’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 296.
‘Philby’s greatest supporter’: ibid.
‘a proficient, clever and determined officer’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 505.
‘Elliott swore not to exceed his brief’: Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied For Russia (London, 1979), p. 436.
‘The few of us inside MI5’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 174.
‘We’d fully penetrated the KGB’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 296.
‘vertically intoxicated’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 7.
‘It was as if our flat’: ibid.
‘He only had to smell a drink’: ibid.
‘What is the matter’: ibid., p. 5.
‘very cold fish indeed’: ibid., p. 9.
‘He dragged us protesting’: ibid., p. 8.
‘already had a good deal’: ibid.
‘He was bleeding profusely’: ibid.
‘If we don’t get your husband’: ibid.
‘one more ounce of alcohol’: ibid., p. 9.
‘I was a bloody fool’: ibid.
‘prepared himself for a battle of wits’: Boyle, The Climate of Treason, p. 436.
‘I’ve got an awful task’: interview with Rozanne Colchester, 11 June 2013.
‘It was a terrible shock’: ibid.
‘he always laughed about things’: ibid.
‘Nicholas knew he had blood’: ibid.
‘in a casual voice’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 297.
‘a meeting between himself’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 474.
‘The minute that call’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 9.
‘I rather thought it would be you’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 297.
Chapter 18: Teatime
‘Perfectly tolerable …’: The dialogue between Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott is constructed from the following sources: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, pp. 297–8; Borovik, The Philby Files, pp. 3, 5, 344; Boyle, The Climate of Treason, pp. 436–7; and interviews with individuals familiar with the transcript of that conversation.
‘in-house’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 174.
‘He never once asked’: ibid., p. 194.
‘Everything’s OK’: Corera, MI6, p. 87.
‘The next twenty-four hours’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 299.
‘Okay, here’s the scoop’: ibid.
‘seen the error of his ways’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 436.
‘Is Nedosekin your contact?’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 299.
‘I’ve got no bloody contact’: ibid.
‘very bland document’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 507.
‘limited confession’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 436.
‘just a little stalling’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 217.
‘Our promise of immunity’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 345.
‘trying his manful best’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 194.
‘By the end’: ibid.
‘finally broken’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 299.
‘obscure hotel’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 6.
‘he did not want too many’: ibid.
‘this furtiveness was’: ibid.
‘as if nothing had intervened’: Boyle, The Climate of Treason, p. 438.
‘His greatest passion’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 6.
‘several names which alarmed’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 215.
‘Blunt was in the clear’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 194.
‘claimed to know nothing’: ibid.
‘the debriefing would be a long affair’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 299.
‘knew about the KGB’: ibid.
‘It became clear to me’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 215.
‘might stand him in good stead’: ibid.
‘lifeline’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 298.
‘effusive in his gratitude’: ibid., p. 300.
‘He could have rejected’: ibid.
‘In our judgement’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 436.
‘What makes you think’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 476.
‘He might, I suppose’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 300.
‘Nobody wanted him in London’: interview with David Cornwell, 11 October 2012.
‘It just didn’t dawn on us’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 301.
‘unsympathetic’: ibid.
Chapter 19: The Fade
‘Philby does not think he can escape again’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 301.
‘Your time has come’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 346.
‘They won’t leave you alone’: ibid.
‘had planted doubts in me’: ibid., p. 352.
‘Arrangements will take some time’: ibid., p. 347.
‘If you see me carrying’: ibid.
‘the question that interests’: ibid.
‘proved a helpful and friendly’: Glencairn Balfour Paul, Bagpipes in Babylon: A Lifetime in the Arab World and Beyond (London, 2006), p. 187.
‘Daddy’s going to be late’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 2.
‘cosy gathering’: ibid., p. 3.
‘God, what a horrible night’: ibid.
‘Don’t be silly’: ibid.
‘had nothing to say’: Clare Hollingworth, Front Line (London, 1990), p. 191.
‘Everything is fine’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 349.
‘a hastily summoned meeting about Kim’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 4.
‘Would you like me to come’: ibid.
‘His advice was to do nothing’: ibid.
‘terrible fear’: ibid.
‘last link with England’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 237.
‘Philby had vanished’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 94.
‘Tell my colleagues’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 18.
‘There is no question’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 189.
‘in circumstances calculated�
��: ibid.
‘You do realise that you’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 18.
‘choose a spot high up’: ibid., p. 19.
‘convinced that Kim had’: ibid., p. 12.
‘on no account to meet’: ibid., p. 21.
‘to test the system’: ibid.
‘Many people in the secret world’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 174.
‘We should have sent a team’: ibid., p. 194.
‘But after lengthy interrogation’: ibid., p. 325.
‘He had been my boss’: Bristow, A Game of Moles, p. 229.
‘horror’: ibid.
‘I never thought he would accept’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 304.
‘What a shame we reopened’: ibid.
‘disappointed’: ibid.
‘I tried to repair the damage’: ibid., p. 305.
‘face the awful truth’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 45.
‘I had them burned’: ibid., p. 46.
‘He was an unforgivable traitor’: Balfour Paul, Bagpipes in Babylon, p. 187.
‘dumbfounded’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 487.
‘unbelievable’: ibid., p. 488.
‘He was the best actor’: ibid.
‘What Philby provided’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 125.
‘Since Mr Philby resigned’: Edward Heath (Lord Privy Seal), House of Commons debate, 1 July 1963, Hansard, Volume 680, cc 33–5.
‘Hello, Mr Philby’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 527.
‘Philby was allowed to escape’: Bristow, A Game of Moles, p. 281.
‘To my mind the whole business’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 238.
‘the secret service had actively’: ibid.
‘I knew exactly how to handle it’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 217.
‘spiriting Philby out of the Lebanon’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 236.
‘a mistake, simple stupidity’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 323.
‘Burgess was a bit of an embarrassment’: Knightley, The Master Spy, pp. 222–3.
‘unmistakably Russian’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 22.
‘I’m from Kim’: ibid.
‘Kim was an active communist’: ibid., p. 56.
‘surprising tenderness’: ibid.
‘We have definitely known’: ibid.
‘the victim of a prolonged’: ibid., p. xiii.
‘All I am thinking of now’: ibid., p. 59.
‘I don’t know what’: ibid., p. 64.
‘Buy yourself some very warm clothes’: ibid., p. 66.
‘What would you do’: ibid., p. 63.
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