‘Kim gave a large farewell party’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/468.
‘given permission to play’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 382.
‘a white Russian’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 133.
‘a fairly free hand’: ibid.
‘start weaving a spy network’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 251.
‘energetic enthusiast’: Dorril, MI6, p. 210.
‘We knew in advance’: ibid., p. 212.
‘the very mechanism through’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 91.
‘He was totally consumed’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 23.
‘We rediscovered each other’: ibid.
‘I’ve got sitting in my Jeep’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 384.
‘He was both efficient and safe’: ibid., p. 380.
‘willing to back them’: Dorril, MI6, p. 211.
‘energetic lads’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 252.
‘tip-and-run’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 140.
‘alert and intelligent’: ibid., p. 143.
‘notably subdued’: ibid.
‘It was essential’: ibid.
‘striding through a sparse wood’: ibid.
‘The boys weren’t bad’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 252.
‘in chains’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 185.
‘dying of some mysterious ailment’: ibid., p. 185.
‘charming woman and loving wife’: ibid.
‘It was an intense affront’: ibid.
‘the marriage steadily deteriorated’: ibid.
‘It was James Jesus Angleton’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 386.
‘At one stroke’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 145.
‘unlimited possibilities’: ibid.
‘Who am I supposed to work’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 257.
‘I was lunched at many’: My Silent War, p. 146.
‘One side is open’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 261.
‘chain reaction that would’: Nicholas Bethell, The Great Betrayaclass="underline" The Untold Story of Kim Philby’s Greatest Coup (London, 1978), p. 41.
‘formal British and American’: ibid., p. 57.
Chapter 9: Stormy Seas
‘There was no question’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 56.
‘all absolutely stark naked’: David de Crespigny Smiley, Interview No. 10340, Imperial War Museum, London, 1988.
‘We were looking only’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 56.
‘that the communists’: ibid., p. 83.
‘Brothers, you’re all going to be killed!’: ibid.
‘fascist terrorists’: ibid.
‘memorable send-off’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 148.
‘a private club afloat’: http://cruiselinehistory.com
‘disgustingly rich friend’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 148.
‘I began to feel that’: ibid.
‘one of the few glories’: ibid., p. 149.
‘admired him as a “professional”’: Gordon Corera, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (London, 2012), p. 64.
‘I was brought up in England’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 13.
‘Things have gone wrong’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 84.
‘Who are you?’: ibid., p. 87.
‘We said we were’: ibid., p. 141.
‘The sun has risen’: ibid., p. 142.
‘several Albanian civilians’: ibid., p. 110.
‘disappointing’: ibid., p. 96.
‘judged by wartime standards to be acceptable’: Dorril, MI6, p. 389.
‘it would be wrong to abandon’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 97.
‘was the one who made’: Dorril, MI6, p. 385.
‘Philby was a great charmer’: Corera, MI6, p. 64.
‘He had charm’: James McCargar, writing as Christopher Felix, ‘A Second Third Man’, New York Times Book Review, 26 May 1968.
‘undoubtedly devoted to his children’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 187.
‘by any objective standard, a dreadful man’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 162.
‘a former FBI man … sacked for drunkenness’: ibid., p. 152.
‘a cold, fishy eye’: ibid., p. 180.
‘bumbling’: ibid., p. 164.
‘puddingy’: ibid.
‘He entertained a lot of Americans’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 101.
‘They were long’: The Cost of Treachery, BBC TV, 30 October 1984.
‘suggestive of complicity’: James McCargar, writing as Christopher Felix, ‘A Second Third Man’.
‘suggest drifting out’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 155.
‘Intelligence officers talk trade’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 399.
‘please one party’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 150.
‘The sky was the limit’: Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley, Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation (London, 1968), p. 211.
‘the driving force’: ibid.
‘I got a few nibbles’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 132.
‘It was the belief’: ibid.
‘habit’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 151.
‘He demonstrated regularly’: ibid.
‘Our close association’: ibid.
‘used to pride himself’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 47.
‘Our discussions ranged’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 151.
‘Both CIA and SIS’: ibid., p. 152.
‘Many of Harvey’s lobsters’: ibid.
‘During those long, boozy lunches’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, pp. 46–7.
‘Everything was written up’: ibid., p. 44.
‘chaotic’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 420.
‘We’ll get it right next time’: Corera, MI6, p. 67.
‘We had agents parachuting in’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 47.
‘the timing and geographical’: Philby, My Silent War, p.159.
‘I do not know what happened’: ibid.
‘We knew that they would’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 137.
‘The boys in London imagined’: ibid., p. 146.
‘tied to the back of a Jeep’: ibid., p. 150.
‘Our famous radio game’: Corera, MI6, p. 62.
‘It was obvious there was’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 104.
‘Our security was very’: Corera, MI6, p. 63.
‘well and truly blown’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 105.
‘Albania would fall from the Soviet’: Nicholas Bethell, ‘Profits and Losses of Treachery’, Independent, 6 September 1994.
‘There is little question’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal, p. 212.
‘He gave us vital information’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 123.