‘not only our best source on Germany’: Tony Paterson, ‘Germany finally honours the “traitor” spy’, Independent, 25 September 2004.
‘Communists and communism’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 49.
‘over one thousand enemy’: Ted Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster (New York, 1999), p. 257.
‘heavily dependent on Philby’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 353.
‘enigmatic wraith’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 57.
‘haunted the streets’: ibid., p. 59.
‘You would sit on a sofa’: David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War’s Most Important Agents (Guilford, CT, 2003), p. 18.
‘perhaps the ablest’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 105.
‘Was it freedom’: ibid., p. 108.
‘Not one of them’: ibid.
‘Stanley was a bit agitated’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 238.
‘I tried to calm him down’: ibid.
‘prank’: Gordon Brook-Shepherd, The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors (London, 1988), p. 41.
‘deplorably nervous state’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 119.
‘less than rock steady’: ibid.
‘obviously been preparing’: ibid., p. 120.
‘I consider this sum’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 525.
‘I know, for instance’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 344; Wright, Spycatcher, p. 281.
‘No one’s going to turn’: Knightley, The Master Spy, pp. 135–6.
‘copies of the material provided’: Edward Harrison, The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer (Exeter, 2012), p. 177.
‘something of the greatest importance’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 121.
‘That evening I worked late’: ibid.
‘Don’t worry, old man’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 178.
‘Someone fully briefed’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 121.
‘meeting Volkov’: ibid., p. 120.
‘work the night before’: ibid., p. 122.
‘Don’t you read my contract’: Alistair Horne, But What do you Actually Do? A Literary Vagabondage (London, 2011), p. 186.
‘with obvious relief’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 122.
‘diplomatic couriers’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 344.
‘this might be the last memorable’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 118.
‘Sorry, old man’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 138.
‘inexplicable delays and evasions’: Harrison, The Young Kim Philby, p. 178.
‘I thought he was just irresponsible’: ibid.
‘It wasn’t Volkov’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 126.
‘She said he was out’: ibid.
‘I asked for Volkov’: ibid., p. 127.
‘It’s no bloody good’: ibid.
‘The case was dead’: ibid.
‘on stretchers and heavily sedated’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 344.
‘brutal interrogation’: ibid., p. 345.
‘a very narrow squeak’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 118.
‘nasty piece of work’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 138.
‘deserved what he got’: ibid.
‘extremely unlikely’: Jeffery, MI6, p. 525.
‘indiscretion in the British Embassy’: ibid.
‘test the waters’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 365.
‘expressed sympathy’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 107.
‘the effect his work’: Trento, The Secret History of the CIA, p. 38.
‘felt guilty about it’: ibid.
‘He helped me to think’: ibid.
‘worse for wear’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 365.
‘warned the Centre’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 346.
‘without reserve’: ibid.
‘Stanley informed me’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 242.
‘Stanley is an exceptionally valuable’: ibid., p. 244.
‘conscientious work for over’: ibid., p. 249.
‘I looked around’: Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair, p. 42.
Chapter 8: Rising Stars
‘I believed we were’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 3.
‘The continuation of a civilization’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 101.
‘I’m in it for the belly-laughs’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.
‘a form of defence mechanism’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 180.
‘Verbal abuse is not’: ibid., p. 61.
‘the British tradition’: ibid., p. 111.
‘One of the joys of living’: ibid., p. 150.
‘oldest and closest friends’: ibid., p.151.
‘British skiing aristocracy’: Peter Lunn obituary, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2011.
‘the ideal person’: Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations (London, 2001), p. 418.
‘attempting to piece together’: ibid.
‘superficial existence’: ibid., p. 408.
‘unique opportunity’: ibid.
‘blueprint for communist’: ibid., p. 419.
‘lifelong communist activists’: ibid.
‘not so much an ideology’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 69.
‘like a British actor’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 21.
‘the cadaver’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 17.
‘The guy was just’: ibid.
‘Secret Documents of Vatican Diplomacy’: Catholic Herald, ‘Author of “Secret Documents” Sentenced’, 30 July 1948.
‘how vulnerable even’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 50.
‘the Byzantine possibilities’: ibid.
‘crawling around on his hands’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 21.
‘His real love was unravelling’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 81.
‘We were … damned good friends’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 71.
‘Stanley reported that’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 241.
‘What a very nice chap’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 367.
‘happy ending’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 210.
‘Kim, a happy and devoted father’: ibid.
‘seemed to belong to the misty, juvenile past’: ibid., p. 172.
‘Awkward of her gestures’: ibid., p. 169.
‘incapable of disloyalty’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 208.
‘all round experience’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 142.
‘profoundly sorry’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/468.
‘main southern base’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 130.