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Authors: Ben Macintyre
‘party-goer’s image’: ibid.
‘This is the last time’: Charles Whiting,
Ghost Front: the Ardennes before the Battle of the Bulge
(London, 2002), pp. 203–4.
‘an operational disaster’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 52.
‘virtually at will’: ibid., p. 63.
‘contacts with other SIS’: ibid.
‘fire-watching nights’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xx.
‘bulging briefcase’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 63.
‘longhand, in neat, tiny writing’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 118.
‘MR NICHOLAS ELLIOTT’: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev,
The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives
(London, 1998), p. 311.
‘Something I owe’: Rudyard Kipling,
Kim
(London, 1994), Chapter 8.
‘penetration agent working’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxix.
‘the exquisite relish’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 291.
‘My ambition is fame’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 21.
‘constantly aware of his father’s’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 133.
‘He should always’: ibid., p. 134.
‘sudden conversion’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. xxx.
‘the inner fortress’: ibid., p. xxix.
‘I left the university’: ibid., p. xxxi.
‘I can hardly see him’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 183.
‘devote his life to the’: ibid.
‘at a crisis point’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 40.
‘tremendous little sexpot’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 159.
‘Actually quite warm’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
,
p. 168.
‘Even though the basis’: Genrikh Borovik, ed. Phillip Knightly,
The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby
(London, 1994), p. 22.
‘I do hope Kim gets a job’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 162.
‘Excess can always’: ibid., p. 137.
‘man of decisive importance’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
, p. 169.
‘man of considerable’: ibid.
‘He was a marvellous man’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 29.
‘important and interesting work’: ibid., p. 25.
‘I trusted him’: ibid., p. 27.
‘prophet of the better orgasm’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
, p. 170.
‘a poor man’s sexual performance’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 163.
‘One does not look twice’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. xxxii.
‘Of all the passions’: C. S. Lewis,
The Inner Ring
, Memorial Lecture at King’s College, University of London, in 1944, collected in
Mere Christianity
(London, 2012).
‘My future looked romantic’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 28.
‘By background, education’: ibid.
‘The anti-fascist movement’: ibid.
‘real and palpable way’: ibid.
‘like poetry’: ibid., p. 33.
‘We have recruited the son’: ibid., p. 39.
‘What are his prospects’: ibid., p. 40.
‘the most interesting’: ibid., p. 52.
‘refers to his parents’: ibid., p. 147.
‘his marvellous education’: ibid., p. 31.
‘the remoter open spaces’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxix.
‘His wife was his first lover’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 148.
‘I sometimes felt’: ibid., p. 33.
‘I was certain that my life’: ibid., p. 31.
‘constant encouragement’: ibid.
‘Söhnchen comes from’: ibid., p. 43.
‘It’s amazing that’: ibid., p. 55.
‘Once you’re inside’: ibid., p. 56.
‘He has many friends’: ibid., p. 43.
‘profoundly repulsive’: ibid., p. 59.
‘in the eyes of my friends’: ibid.
‘how difficult it is to leave’: ibid.
‘It seems unlikely that’: ibid., pp. 52–3.
‘The people I could’: ibid., p. 46.
‘very serious and aloof’: ibid., p. 44.
‘Sonny has high praise’: ibid.
‘Very smart’: ibid., p. 44.
‘Do you think that’: ibid., p. 48.
‘I lost my faith’: Elisabeth K. Poretsky,
Our Own People: A Memoir of ‘Ignace Reiss’ and His Friends
(Oxford, 1969), p. 214.
‘shiny grey complexion’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
,
p. 180.
‘an inspirational figure’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 194.
‘Both of them were intelligent’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 174.
‘handles our money’: ibid.
‘We have great difficulty’: ibid., p. 88.
‘unit strengths and locations’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 71.
‘a royalist of the most’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 111.
‘I would be lying’: ibid., pp. 111–12.
‘He works with great’: ibid., p. 129.
‘obviously been in the thick’: Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 260.
‘doing a very dangerous job’: ibid., p. 173.
‘important work for peace’: Solomon and Litvinoff,
Baku to Baker Street
,
p. 169.
‘he could always’: Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 173.
‘Even if he had been able’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 89.
‘They are very pleased’: ibid., p. 95.
‘a decent chap’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 56.
‘I know that as a former priest’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
, p. 183.
‘infinite patience’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxix.
‘intelligent understanding’: ibid.
‘painstaking advice’: ibid.
‘marvellous men’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 29.
‘What’s going to happen’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 71.
‘activity in England’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
,
p. 185.
‘I had been told in pressing’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxviii.