‘dumbfounded’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 487.
‘unbelievable’: ibid., p. 488.
‘He was the best actor’: ibid.
‘What Philby provided’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 125.
‘Since Mr Philby resigned’: Edward Heath (Lord Privy Seal), House of Commons debate, 1 July 1963, Hansard, Volume 680, cc 33–5.
‘Hello, Mr Philby’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 527.
‘Philby was allowed to escape’: Bristow, A Game of Moles, p. 281.
‘To my mind the whole business’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 238.
‘the secret service had actively’: ibid.
‘I knew exactly how to handle it’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 217.
‘spiriting Philby out of the Lebanon’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 236.
‘a mistake, simple stupidity’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 323.
‘Burgess was a bit of an embarrassment’: Knightley, The Master Spy, pp. 222–3.
‘unmistakably Russian’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 22.
‘I’m from Kim’: ibid.
‘Kim was an active communist’: ibid., p. 56.
‘surprising tenderness’: ibid.
‘We have definitely known’: ibid.
‘the victim of a prolonged’: ibid., p. xiii.
‘All I am thinking of now’: ibid., p. 59.
‘I don’t know what’: ibid., p. 64.
‘Buy yourself some very warm clothes’: ibid., p. 66.
‘What would you do’: ibid., p. 63.
‘she finally admitted’: ibid.
‘passionate loyalty and devotion’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 182.
‘Although I had put the fear of God’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 94.
‘Eleanor, is that you?’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 69.
‘Dear Nick’: undated letter from Kim Philby to Nicholas Elliott, Cleveland Cram collection, Georgetown University Library, Washington DC.
‘It was ridiculous to suppose’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 95.
‘an incredibly clumsy piece’: ibid.
‘many hours of discussion’: ibid.
‘because first’: ibid.
‘tragic episode’: ibid., p. 97.
‘Put some flowers for me’: ibid., p. 98.
Chapter 20: Three Old Spies
‘elite’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxxii.
‘He never revealed’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 270.
‘Englishman to his fingertips’: ibid.
‘homeland’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 373.
‘belonged’: Murray Sayle, ‘London-Moscow: The Spies are Jousting’, Sunday Times, 6 January 1968.
‘wholly and irreversibly English’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 527.
‘Aluminium bats, white balls’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 239.
‘the ghastly din’: ibid., p. 253.
‘hooligans inflamed’: ibid.
‘What is more important’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 78.
The party, of course’: ibid.
‘stayed the course’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xxxi.
‘If you only knew what hell’: Balfour Paul, Bagpipes in Babylon, p. 186.
‘Friendship is the most important thing’: ibid.
‘painful to think that during’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 488.
‘I wasn’t laughing at them’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 254.
‘It had travelled with him’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 189.
‘supreme example of schizophrenia’: ibid.
‘He betrayed many people’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 175.
‘No one can ever really know’: ibid., p. xiv.
‘The emotional wreckage’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 206.
‘Jim just continued to think’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 48.
Never again would he permit’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 193.
‘This is all Kim’s work’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, p. 207.
‘He had trusted him’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 81.
‘I don’t know that the damage’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 193.
‘come clean in the Philby case’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 565.
‘To be in administration’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 179.
‘Rather to my surprise’: ibid., p. 192.
‘a modern Cecil Rhodes’: ibid., p. 191.
‘the Harry Lime of Cheapside’: ibid., p. 192.
‘incapable of leading that kind of life’: ibid., p. 195.
‘gift for dowsing’: ibid.
‘alternative to involvement’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 65.
‘showing a quite unjustified lack’: ibid., p. 109.
‘extremely well over an extended period’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 182.
‘I have naturally given thought’: ibid.
‘Outwardly he was a kindly man’: ibid., p. 183.
‘a façade, in a schizophrenic personality’: ibid., p. 190.
‘sad exiled life’: ibid., p. 189.
‘dreary people, a spying servant’: ibid.
‘wasted in a futile cause’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 99.
‘decided to betray’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 190.
‘He had charm to burn’: ibid., p. 189.
‘The whole thing was staged’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 215.
‘desire to spare SIS another spy scandal’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 323.
‘blissful peace’: ibid., p. 357.
‘How sleepless must be Kim Philby’s nights’: ibid., p. 373.
‘He’s a totally sad man’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 5.
‘like Glasgow on a Saturday night’: Tom Driberg, Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background (London, 1956), p. 100.
‘burdensome’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 235.
‘Any confession involves’: Rufina Philby, Mikhail Lyubimov and Hayden Peake, The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years (London, 1999), p. 257.
‘showed no interest’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 185.
‘one of the better ones’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 257.
‘tireless struggle in the cause’: ibid., p. 260.
‘My lips have hitherto been sealed’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 95.
‘a tremendous fluttering’: ibid.
‘undistinguished, albeit mildly notorious’: ibid., p. 10.
‘I feel I have been’: ibid.
A Note on the Author
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of nine previous books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, the no. 1 bestseller Operation Mincemeat and most recently the Richard and Judy bestseller Double Cross. He lives in north London with his wife and three children.