‘long Sunday lunches’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War, p. xx.
‘small loyalties’: ibid.
‘He had something about him’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 133.
‘merry band’: Desmond Bristow with Bill Bristow, A Game of Moles: The Deceptions of an MI6 Officer (London, 1993), p. 17.
‘a purchaser of skunk excrement’: ibid., p. 18.
‘The sense of dedication’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 276.
‘No one could have’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War, p. xix.
‘a gentle-looking man’: Bristow, A Game of Moles, pp. 262–3.
‘cosiness’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 63.
‘It was not difficult’: ibid.
‘a good cricket umpire’: Felix Cowgill, interview with Anthony Cave Brown, 1983, in Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 275.
‘calculating ambition’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 119.
‘single-mindedness’: ibid.
‘There was something’: Hugh Trevor-Roper, interview by Graham Turner, Daily Telegraph, 28 January 2003.
‘It was not long’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 53.
‘to good use in disrupting’: ibid., p. 55.
‘mingle with the crowd’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 387.
‘party-goer’s image’: ibid.
‘This is the last time’: Charles Whiting, Ghost Front: the Ardennes before the Battle of the Bulge (London, 2002), pp. 203–4.
‘an operational disaster’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 52.
‘virtually at will’: ibid., p. 63.
‘contacts with other SIS’: ibid.
‘fire-watching nights’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War, p. xx.
‘bulging briefcase’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 63.
‘longhand, in neat, tiny writing’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 118.
‘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.