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Notes
Citations marked KV refer to the Security Service files, PREM to Prime Minister’s Office files and FO to Foreign Office files, all at the National Archives (TNA), Kew.
Epigraphs
‘General slang for members’: spymuseum.org/education-programs/spy-resources/language-of-espionage.
‘If I had to choose between’: The Nation, 16 July 1938.
Chapter 1: Apprentice Spy
‘I am relieved’: Nicholas Elliott, Never Judge a Man by his Umbrella (London, 1992), p. 101.
‘So that’: ibid.
‘crossed in love’: ibid., p. 3.
‘the epitome of the English’: ibid., p. 1.
‘effete’: ibid., p. 88.
‘when dealing with foreigners’: ibid., p. 43.
‘Claude was highly embarrassed’: ibid., p. 13.
‘God, Disease and below’: ibid., p. 18.
‘nothing as unpleasant’: ibid., p. 31.
‘sheer hell’: ibid., p. 21.
‘The increased legibility’: ibid., p. 34.
‘How hard should I work’: ibid., p. 80.
‘He strongly advised’: ibid.
‘a triumph over the examiners’: ibid., p. 89.
‘languid, upper-class manner’: Peter Wright, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (London, 1987), p. 174.
‘I could never be a’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 40.
‘obey not the order’: ibid.
‘plug ugly’: ibid., p. 15.
‘was no more or less’: ibid.
‘inability to get down’: ibid., p. 91.