‘There was no serious’: Nicholas Elliott, With My Little Eye: Observations Along the Way (Norwich, 1993), p. 16.
‘in the diplomatic service’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 93.
‘opportunity to see’: ibid., p. 99.
‘We discreetly poked’: ibid.
‘a singularly foolhardy’: ibid.
‘The Führer is feted’: cited by James Holland, Daily Mail, 18 April 2009.
‘I am tempted’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 100.
‘pick the bastard off’: E. Butler, Mason-Mac: The life of Lieutenant-General Sir Noel Mason-MacFarlane (London, 1972), p. 75.
‘strongly urged’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 100.
‘My mind was easily’: ibid., p. 101.
‘just as soon as it feels’: Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (London, 2009), p. 195.
‘the best and most ingenious’: ibid., p. 196.
‘priceless intelligence’: ibid.
‘I was really helping’: ibid.
‘The English are hopeless’: ibid., p. 204.
‘sacrificing himself’: ibid.
‘Klop was a man’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 149.
‘complicated man’: ibid., p. 102.
‘His motivation was solely’: ibid.
‘Is Hitler going to start’: ibid.
‘On present plans’: ibid.
‘startling statement’: ibid.
‘always displayed’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 246.
‘by the autumn of 1939’: Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949 (London, 2010), p. 385.
‘it could only be’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 242.
‘brilliant linguist’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 103.
‘an ostentatious ass’: ibid.
‘overthrow the present regime’: p. 382.
‘I have a hunch’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 244.
‘the big man himself’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 384.
‘No one was in sight’: ibid.
‘The next moment’: Sigismund Payne Best, The Venlo Incident (London, 1950), p. 17.
‘At one stroke’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 103.
‘able to construct’: ibid.
‘intense ambition’: ibid.
‘possibility of winning’: ibid.
‘In the long run’: arcre.com/archive/sis/venlo
‘selling everything to Moscow’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 262.
‘as disastrous as it was’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 103.
‘Oh what a tangled web’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 11.
‘Information has been’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 106.
‘It soon became apparent’: ibid.
‘We’re in the final’: ibid., p. 109.
‘normality and calmness’: ibid.
‘never occurred to me’: ibid.
‘England was gripped’: ibid., p. 111.
‘give evidence of what’: ibid.
‘feeling of camaraderie’: ibid., p. 110.
‘My only moment’: ibid.
‘Basil Fisher was killed’: ibid.
Chapter 2: Section V
‘He was the sort of man’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Phillip Knightley, The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby (London, 1988), p. 119.
‘halting stammered witticisms’: Graham Greene, foreword to Kim Philby, My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy (London, 1968), p. xx.
‘great pluck’: E. G. de Caux to Ralph Deakin, 14 January 1938, The Times Archives.
‘Many express disappointment’: The Times, 17 November 1939.
‘Camel-hair overcoat’: expenses claim letter, The Times Archives.
‘dropped a few hints’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxviii.
‘A person like you’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 79.
‘We’ll figure something’: ibid.
‘war work’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 9.
‘intensely likeable’: ibid.
‘I began to show off’: ibid., p. 10.
‘nothing recorded against’: ibid.
‘I was asked about him’: Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville, Philby: The Long Road to Moscow (London, 1973), p. 135.
‘set Europe ablaze’: Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years: Memoirs, 1931–1945 (London, 1957), p. 366.
‘I escaped to London’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 63.
‘In those days’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 111.
‘He had an ability’: ibid., p. 183.
‘the inherent evil’: ibid., p. 105.
‘very rarely discussed’: ibid., p. 183.
‘the English batting’: ibid.
‘Indeed he did not strike me’: ibid.
‘pose of amiable’: Hugh R. Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason, and Secret Services (London, 1968), p. 42.
‘by and large pretty stupid’: Christopher Andrew, Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (London, 1985), p. 249.
‘An exceptional person’: ibid.
‘clarity of mind’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 183.
‘He was much more’: ibid.
‘The old Secret Service’: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, vol. II (London, 1973), p. 136.
‘slouching about in sweaters’: ibid.
‘You’d drop in to see’: Kim Philby, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1988, in Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 84.
‘atmosphere of haute cuisine’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 35.
‘out of fun rather’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 184.
‘To start with we always’: Dennis Wheatley, The Deception Planners: My Secret War (London, 1980), p. 30.
‘for an hour’: ibid.
‘He was a formidable’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 183.
‘serious drinkers should never’: ibid.
‘violent headache’: ibid.
‘It was an organisation’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 22.
They spoke the same language’: interview with Mark Elliott, 11 November 2013.
‘negate, confuse, deceive’: Leo D. Carl, The International Dictionary of Intelligence (McLean Virginia, 1990), p. 83.
‘with a knowledge of Spain’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 35.
‘The Old Boy network’: ibid., p. 37.
‘purblind, disastrous’: Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair, p. 37.
‘As an intelligence officer’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 46.
‘suspicious and bristling’: ibid.
‘personal contacts with’: ibid., p. 43.
‘He was a bit of a communist’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 135.
‘active pursuit and liquidation’: Anthony Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood: H. St John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century (London, 1995), p. 276.
‘Aileen belonged to that class’: Flora Solomon and Barnet Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street: The Memoirs of Flora Solomon (London, 1984), p. 172.
‘He found an avid listener’: ibid.
‘She was highly intelligent’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 182.
‘parental pride’: ibid., p. 187.