‘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.
‘dubious’: 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.