‘Generous, outrageous, always fun’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 106.
‘one of the most indiscreet men’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 68.
‘I could trust him with any secret’: ibid.
‘keep an eye on Philby’: Copeland, Without Cloak or Dagger, p. 212.
‘report signs that he might’: ibid., p. 146.
‘still practising his old tradecraft’: ibid., p. 212.
‘entertaining and colourful invention’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 69.
‘a melodious voice’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 53.
‘lapping up’: ibid., p. 5.
‘She was affectionate’: ibid.
‘hopelessly endearing’: ibid.
‘happiest years’: ibid., p. 51.
Chapter 16: A Most Promising Officer
‘treated with the deference’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 46.
‘Elizabeth and I were among’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.
‘drew the old man out’: ibid.
‘memorable occasion’: ibid.
‘left at tea time’: ibid.
‘God, I’m bored’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 495.
‘a mixture of love and hate’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.
‘not completely well in the head’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 203.
‘If you feel strongly enough’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.
‘thunderstruck, but by no means disapproving’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 132.
‘went out of circulation’: ibid.
‘He drank himself senseless’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 47.
‘Kim seemed overwhelmed’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 33.
‘a most promising officer’: Roger Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake (London, 2013), p. 221.
‘A good-looking fellow’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 501.
‘it was the relentless bombing’: Ian Irvine, ‘George Blake: I Spy a British Traitor’, Independent, 1 October 2006.
‘I felt I was on the wrong side’: ibid.
‘He doesn’t belong in the service’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 261.
‘man of no class’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 56.
‘He was in love with her’: ibid., p. 61.
‘ninety per cent sure’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 263.
‘to London immediately’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 221.
‘whether Blake would like’: ibid.
‘In the course of conversation’: ibid., p. 222.
‘Moscow saw no cause for concern’: ibid.
‘would be more convenient’: ibid., p. 223.
‘For a moment a shadow’: ibid.
‘a few matters had cropped up’: ibid., p. 226.
‘I was in deep trouble’: ibid., p. 227.
‘It wasn’t hostile’: ibid.
‘No, nobody tortured me!’: ibid., p. 229.
‘The game was up’: ibid.
‘the biggest hammer possible’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 268.
‘The following name is a traitor’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 236.
‘It can happen to anyone’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 269.
‘Your case is one of the worst’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 250.
‘I went round to his flat’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, pp. 33–4.
‘Kim would become insulting’: ibid., p. 31.
‘not light-hearted about drink’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 5.
‘By the next day he was usually forgiven’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 31.
‘I know all about your Wednesday nights’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 301.
‘You know Moyra’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 32.
‘What would you do’: ibid.
‘something awful’: ibid.
‘What’s the matter?’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 5.
‘Kim seemed to give himself’: ibid., p. 6.
‘out of all proportion’: ibid.
‘shattered’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 187.
‘Apart from when his father died’: ibid.
‘the most valuable defector’: Caroline Rand Herron and Michael Wright, ‘A KGB defector who may not be’, New York Times, 2 February 1986.
‘very important spy network’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 435.
‘exhibited increasing signs’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 193.
‘Modin had gone to Beirut to alert Philby’: ibid.
‘a shadow of his former self’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 236.
‘To warn Philby not to return’: Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (London, 1999), p. 440.
‘belly laughs’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.
‘Of course he’s a traitor’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 293.
Chapter 17: I Thought it Would Be You
‘Russian soul, Jewish heart’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 229.
‘To anyone with eyes’: ibid., p. 225.
‘The thought occurred to me’: ibid.
‘dangerous work in hazardous’: London Gazette, 4 April 1944.
‘How is it the Observer uses’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.
‘very dangerous job for peace’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.
‘intuitive feeling that Harris’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.
‘the terrible way he treated’: Peter Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.
‘You must do something’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.
‘I will think about it’: ibid.
‘major breakthrough’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 172.
‘a strange, rather untrustworthy woman’: ibid., p. 173.
‘She clearly had a grudge’: ibid.
‘I will never give public evidence’: ibid.
‘It will leak, I know it will leak’: ibid.
‘Why didn’t she tell us’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 294.
‘I had not volunteered information’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.
‘how clubmanship and the old school tie’: ibid., p. 227.
‘far too wily’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 473.
‘We need to discover what damage’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 295.
‘should be treated as a gentleman’: ibid.
‘Keep a lid on things’: ibid., p. 294.
‘voluminous brief in preparation’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.
‘is the greatest dissembler’: John le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim (London, 1990), Part II.
‘happily have killed him’: interview with Mark Elliott, 11 November 2013.
‘there was more chance that Philby’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 296.
‘Philby’s greatest supporter’: ibid.