‘The agents we sent into Albania’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 128.
‘gave Philby over drinks’: Corera, MI6, p. 65.
Chapter 10: Homer’s Odyssey
‘Jim and Kim were very fond’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 43.
‘After a year of keeping up’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 151.
‘If you have a lot of money’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 264.
‘The more visitors I had’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 146.
‘valuable agent network’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 376.
‘particularly important’: ibid.
‘Philby was looking on’: ibid., p. 378.
‘genuine mental block’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 167.
‘before the net closed in’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 423.
‘He clearly feels’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/472.
‘give us more time’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 379.
‘parental pride in being’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 187.
‘I have a shock for you’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 126.
‘for a few days’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 416.
‘I know him only too well’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 165.
‘I do not think that’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 422.
‘was not the sort of person’: ibid.
‘eccentricities’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 166.
‘What does he mean worse’: ibid.
‘Knowing the trouble’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 186.
‘The inevitable drunken scenes’: ibid.
‘keep an eye’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 166.
‘secure line of communication to Moscow’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 423.
‘the most outstanding historian’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 419.
‘the cheapest bourbon’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 53.
‘a peculiar garb’: ibid.
‘for fantastic profits’: ibid.
‘a bloated alcoholic’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 88.
‘What Freudian impulse’: ibid., p. 121.
‘beastily distorted’: ibid.
‘How could you?’: ibid.
‘a social disaster’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 53.
‘handsome’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 184.
‘Forget it’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 168.
‘Don’t you go too’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 171.
‘There’s serious trouble’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 200.
‘Donald’s now in such a state’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 424.
‘We agree to your organizing’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 201.
‘no predisposition to be a spy’: ibid., p. 22.
‘men who are too short’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 335.
‘at Victoria, MI5’s men’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 207.
‘Back on Monday!’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 430.
‘Don’t go with him’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 204.
‘The Centre had concluded’: ibid.
‘It just happened’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 109.
‘even in Strasbourg’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 156.
‘It seems a pity the Foreign Office’: ibid., p. 46.
‘at all costs and by all means’: Press Association, News Report, 7 July 1951, paimages.co.uk/preview/?urn=2.7587460
‘6’3’, normal build’: ibid.
‘decanter of poisoned Scotch’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 430.
‘Kim’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 172.
‘lack of discipline’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 426.
‘crude manners’: ibid.
‘a stiff drink’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 175.
‘My clear duty was to fight it out’: ibid.
‘There is no doubt’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.
‘who would wish very much’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 176.
Chapter 11: Peach
‘rapier mind’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 113.
‘deeply subtle twists’: ibid.
‘How long will you be away’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 181.
‘a pleasant hour’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 181.
‘matters of mutual concern’: ibid.
‘major sensation’: TNA PREM 8/1524 (no. 1792).
‘highly professional, perceptive and accusatory’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 44.
‘Philby was a Soviet spy’: ibid.
a retrospective exercise in spite’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 185.
‘suffered severe concussion’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 53.
‘conviction’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 45.
‘without reference to Philby’: ibid.
‘the bottom line was’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 53.
‘he remained convinced’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 45.
‘held in high esteem’: ibid.
‘What is the rest’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 57.
‘apprehensive’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 182.
‘He did his best to put’: ibid.
‘might have views on the case’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.
‘this horrible business’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 427.
‘There was no case against’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 438.
‘nondescript’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 127.
‘pure trade’: ibid., p. 124.
‘establishment’: ibid.
‘very sketchy’: ibid.
‘an indiscreet, disorganised’: ibid., p. 125.
‘Kim is extremely worried’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.
‘wholly convincing’: ibid.
‘I dined with Anthony Blunt’: ibid.
‘hard to believe’: ibid.
‘Fire Philby or we break off’: Burton Hersh, The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA (New York, 1992), p. 321.
‘severely shaken’: TNA PREM 8/1524 (no. 1803).
‘clean house regardless’: ibid.
‘In the State Department’: ibid.
‘their wholehearted commitment’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 126.
‘While all the points’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.
‘I’m in no particular hurry’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 126.
‘subsequently converted her’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.
‘he himself had never’: ibid.
‘denied emphatically’: ibid.