Authors: Ben Macintyre

A Spy Among Friends (56 page)

‘earned my respect’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
pp. 150–1.

‘Philby may have felt’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 49.

‘Philby was one of Angleton’s’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 118.

‘Our European friends’: W. Bryher,
The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940–1946
(New York, 1972), pp. ix-x.

‘as if they contained the secret of the Trinity’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 299.

‘restless appetite for organizing’: William Empson to James Angleton, 19 February 1940, quoted in Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 22.

‘extremely brilliant’: ibid., p. 45.

‘Once I met Philby’: Joseph J.Trento,
The Secret History of the CIA
(New York, 2001), p. 37.

‘an almost total moron’: West and Tsarev,
The Crown Jewels
, p. 311.

‘We had achieved’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 78.

‘in all intelligence matters’: ibid., p. 80.

‘beginning to make a career’: ibid., p. 79.

‘I regarded my SIS’: ibid., p. xxix.

‘incomprehensible’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
,
p. 272.

‘A straight penetration’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxix.

‘He is lying to us’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. xiv.

‘He was so completely’: Yuri Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller
(New York, 1995), p. 201.

‘in such a manner’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 218.

‘single-front struggle’: ibid., p. xi.

‘modest bit towards’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 128.

‘Moody and nervous’: Vermehren file, TNA KV 2/956.

‘The city is riddled’: Rubin,
Istanbul Intrigues
, p. 224.

‘specialised in making Britons’: ibid.

‘I remembered him vividly’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 135.

‘small roundish man’: ibid.

‘instantly dismissed’: ibid.

‘The information obtained’: ibid., p. 133.

‘If he had not been a spy’: Rubin,
Istanbul Intrigues
,
p. 164.

‘penchant for involving’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 120.

‘The names of the Azerbaijanis’: Rubin,
Istanbul Intrigues
,
p. 227.

‘the Arab cause depended’: ibid., p. 225.

‘
Twelve-land, Twelve-land
’: ibid., p. 201.

Chapter 6: The German Defector

‘unfit to represent’: Erich Vermehren, obituary by Richard Bassett,
The Independent
, 3 May 2005.

‘Erich Vermehren?’: Richard Bassett,
Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
(London, 2006), p. 280.

‘I had a sense’: ibid.

‘signs of instability’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 315.

‘a highly strung’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 504.

‘intensely anti-Nazi’: ibid.

‘fully convinced’: ibid.

‘the complete Abwehr setup’: ibid.

‘quantity of detailed information’: ibid.

‘it would not be long’: ibid.

‘a hell of flap’: ibid., p. 505.

‘lest his disappearance’: Rubin,
Istanbul Intrigues
,
p. 232.

‘he was given breakfast’: ibid.

‘swamped by an invasion’: ibid.

‘gravely prejudiced the activities’: ibid., p. 229.

‘exceedingly tedious’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 126.

‘They are so God-awful conscientious’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 42.

‘I don’t mind telling you’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 127.

‘obstacle race with frequent jumps’: ibid.

‘German-Turkish intelligence’: Rubin,
Istanbul Intrigues
,
p. 228.

‘The twenty-four-year-old attaché’:
Associated Press
, 9 February 1945.

‘If an enemy alien’: Liddell,
Diaries
, KV4/466.

‘outstanding blow’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 504.

‘exploded’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 315.

‘hardly surprising given’: Bassett,
Hitler’s Spy Chief
,
p. 282.

‘thrown into a state of confusion’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 505.

‘consummate skill and sympathy’: ibid.

‘dine out’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.

‘formidably impressed both by’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 81. There is some confusion over where Elliott and Angleton first met. Elliott recalled that Angleton came to stay with him Switzerland in 1946, but it seems more likely, according to his family and other sources, that their first encounter was in London a year earlier, during the period of the Vermehren debriefing.

‘Beneath the rather sinister’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 81.

‘At that time, secrets’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 62.

‘Sit down, I’d like to have’ to’Because the Chief told him’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, pp. 17–18.

‘For centuries the Office’: Tom Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
:
Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935–1990
(London, 1995), p. 85.

‘of all their contacts’: Bassett,
Hitler’s Spy Chief
,
p. 23.

‘leading Catholic activists’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 110.

‘could have formed the backbone’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 328.

‘All had been deported’: Bassett,
Hitler’s Spy Chief
,
p. 23.

‘Because Moscow had decided’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 110.

‘drive against the Catholic Church’: TNA KV 4/469.

‘I was responsible for the deaths’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 128.

Chapter 7: The Soviet Defector