‘tipster’: TNA FO 953/2165.
‘The house at Crowborough’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 186.
Chapter 13: The Third Man
‘If pop music is going to be’: cited in Richard Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz, Popular Culture: A Reader (London, 2005), p. 368.
‘Has the Prime Minister’: House of Commons debate, 25 October 1955, Hansard, Volume 545, cc 28–9.
‘My name is in the newspapers’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 314.
‘might prejudice the case’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 192.
‘We’ve decided that you’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 314.
‘additional stress for Aileen’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 186.
‘absolutely convinced I had’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 322.
‘leaned heavily in favour’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 195.
‘Nothing would be worse’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 454.
‘Mr Philby had Communist’: Harold Macmillan, House of Commons debate, 7 November 1956, Hansard, Volume 545, cc 1483.
‘a man whose name has been smeared’: Richard Brooman-White, ibid.
‘He [Lipton] is in favour of acting’: ibid.
‘Whoever is covering up’: Frank Tomney, ibid.
‘I will not be gagged by anybody’: Marcus Lipton, ibid.
‘Even Mr Philby has not’: ibid.
‘Jesus Christ!’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 195.
‘Do come in’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 318.
‘The efficiency of our security services’: the press conference can be viewed at youtube.com/watch?v=N2A2g-qRIaU
‘I see you understand the habits’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 319.
‘breathtaking’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 234.
‘Kim played his cards with’: ibid.
‘deeply regretted’: ‘Colonel Lipton Withdraws’, The Times, 11 November 1955.
‘My evidence was insubstantial’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, pp. 457–8.
‘Colonel Lipton has done’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 197.
‘overjoyed’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 234.
‘seek his reemployment’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 158.
‘further service to the Soviet cause’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 198.
‘frogmen had popped up’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 24.
‘a matter of high intelligence priority’: ibid.
‘We wanted a closer look’: ibid.
‘undaunted devotion to duty’: ibid.
‘a most engaging man’: ibid.
‘kindly bantam cock’: Rob Hoole, ‘The Buster Crabb Enigma’, Warship World, January 2007.
‘to get m’ feet wet again’: Marshall Pugh, Commander Crabb (London, 1956), p. 156.
‘supplies of whisky’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 25.
‘heading for a heart attack’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 74.
‘Crabb was still the most experienced’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 25.
‘The dicey operations’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 159.
‘These ships are our guests’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 417.
‘We don’t have a chain’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 160.
‘I am sorry, but we cannot’: Don Hale, The Final Dive: The Life and Death of Buster Crabb (London, 2007), p. 172.
‘operation was mounted’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 24.
‘working holiday’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 460.
‘attached Foreign Office’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 160.
‘down to take a dekko’: see BBC, On This Day, news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/9/newsid_4741000/4741060.stm
‘an extra pound of weight’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 24.
‘A tip-off from a British spy’: Corera, MI6, p. 78.
‘There will be blood’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 74.
‘We’ll all be for the pavilion’: ibid., p. 75.
‘specially employed in connection’: Hale, The Final Dive, p. 176.
‘presumed drowned’: ibid.
‘I’m afraid it rather’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 74.
‘missing or lost property’: Hale, The Final Dive, p. 172.
‘in trouble’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 24.
‘he hoped he was all right’: ibid.
‘such an unusual occurrence’: Hale, The Final Dive, p. 183.
‘regret about this incident’: ibid., p. 188.
‘completely unauthorized’: ibid.
‘paid no attention’: ibid., p. 183.
‘it can only be assumed’: ibid.
‘It would not be’: ibid., p. 184.
‘a shameful operation’: ibid., p. 191.
‘misconceived and inept operation’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 421.
‘Ridiculous’: Francis Elliott, ‘Cold War Papers Reveal Lost Diver’s Last Minutes’, Independent on Sunday, 11 June 2006.
‘a typical piece of MI6 adventurism’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 73.
‘We’re still cloak and dagger’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 165.
‘one man Bay of Pigs’: ibid., p. 312.
‘A storm in a teacup’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 25.
‘Crabb was both brave and patriotic’: ibid.
‘He almost certainly died’: ibid.
‘come down to the firm’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 321.
‘Something unpleasant again’: ibid.
Chapter 14: Our Man in Beirut
‘In those days SIS kept in touch’: Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming (London, 1996), p. 170.
‘Kemsley Press allowed’: ibid., p. 169.
‘doing secret service stuff’: ibid.
‘being re-engaged for reasons’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 284.
‘The country could ill afford’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 470.
‘I simply approved them’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 199.
‘no appetite for reopening old wounds’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 289.
‘irritated that Elliott’: ibid., p. 292.
‘no emotion’: ibid.
‘unaware’: ibid., p. 235.
‘horrified if he knew’: ibid.
‘It was Nicholas Elliott’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 206.
‘had an ersatz gaiety’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 157.
‘The climate of Vienna’: ibid.
‘Haunted by Kim’s life of treason’: Richard Beeston, Looking for Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent (London, 2006), p. 29.
‘she maintained in the hope’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 211.
‘Lebanon was the only Arab country’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 28.