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Authors: Ben Macintyre
‘I must do everything’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 94.
‘Cowgill must go’: ibid.
‘great warmth’: ibid., p. 100.
‘the idea was his own’: ibid.
‘At one stroke’: Robert Cecil in Christopher Andrew and D. Dilks (eds),
The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century
(London, 1984), p. 179.
‘The new appointment’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 236.
‘jovial, kindly man’: ibid., p. 177.
‘a splendid professional’: ibid.
‘unburden’: ibid.
‘I must thank you’: ibid., p. 237.
‘After the gloom of London’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 141.
‘not only our best source on Germany’: Tony Paterson, ‘Germany finally honours the “traitor” spy’,
Independent
, 25 September 2004.
‘Communists and communism’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 49.
‘over one thousand enemy’: Ted Morgan,
A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
(New York, 1999), p. 257.
‘heavily dependent on Philby’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 353.
‘enigmatic wraith’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 57.
‘haunted the streets’: ibid., p. 59.
‘You would sit on a sofa’: David C. Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War’s Most Important Agents
(Guilford, CT, 2003), p. 18.
‘perhaps the ablest’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 105.
‘Was it freedom’: ibid., p. 108.
‘Not one of them’: ibid.
‘Stanley was a bit agitated’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 238.
‘I tried to calm him down’: ibid.
‘prank’: Gordon Brook-Shepherd,
The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors
(London, 1988), p. 41.
‘deplorably nervous state’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 119.
‘less than rock steady’: ibid.
‘obviously been preparing’: ibid., p. 120.
‘I consider this sum’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 525.
‘I know, for instance’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 344; Wright,
Spycatcher,
p. 281.
‘No one’s going to turn’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
pp. 135–6.
‘copies of the material provided’: Edward Harrison,
The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer
(Exeter, 2012), p. 177.
‘something of the greatest importance’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 121.
‘That evening I worked late’: ibid.
‘Don’t worry, old man’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 178.
‘Someone fully briefed’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 121.
‘meeting Volkov’: ibid., p. 120.
‘work the night before’: ibid., p. 122.
‘Don’t you read my contract’: Alistair Horne,
But What do you Actually Do?
A Literary Vagabondage
(London, 2011), p. 186.
‘with obvious relief’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 122.
‘diplomatic couriers’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 344.
‘this might be the last memorable’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 118.
‘Sorry, old man’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 138.
‘inexplicable delays and evasions’: Harrison,
The Young Kim Philby
, p. 178.
‘I thought he was just irresponsible’: ibid.
‘It wasn’t Volkov’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 126.
‘She said he was out’: ibid.
‘I asked for Volkov’: ibid., p. 127.
‘It’s no bloody good’: ibid.
‘The case was dead’: ibid.
‘on stretchers and heavily sedated’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 344.
‘brutal interrogation’: ibid., p. 345.
‘a very narrow squeak’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 118.
‘nasty piece of work’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 138.
‘deserved what he got’: ibid.
‘extremely unlikely’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 525.
‘indiscretion in the British Embassy’: ibid.
‘test the waters’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 365.
‘expressed sympathy’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 107.
‘the effect his work’: Trento,
The Secret History of the CIA
, p. 38.
‘felt guilty about it’: ibid.
‘He helped me to think’: ibid.
‘worse for wear’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 365.
‘warned the Centre’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 346.
‘without reserve’: ibid.
‘Stanley informed me’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 242.
‘Stanley is an exceptionally valuable’: ibid., p. 244.
‘conscientious work for over’: ibid., p. 249.
‘I looked around’: Trevor-Roper,
The Philby Affair
,
p. 42.
‘I believed we were’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 3.
‘The continuation of a civilization’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 101.
‘I’m in it for the belly-laughs’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.
‘a form of defence mechanism’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 180.
‘Verbal abuse is not’: ibid., p. 61.
‘the British tradition’: ibid., p. 111.
‘One of the joys of living’: ibid., p. 150.
‘oldest and closest friends’: ibid., p.151.
‘British skiing aristocracy’: Peter Lunn obituary,
Daily Telegraph
, 12 June 2011.
‘the ideal person’: Stephen Dorril,
MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations
(London, 2001), p. 418.
‘attempting to piece together’: ibid.
‘superficial existence’: ibid., p. 408.
‘unique opportunity’: ibid.
‘blueprint for communist’: ibid., p. 419.
‘lifelong communist activists’: ibid.
‘not so much an ideology’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 69.
‘like a British actor’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
p. 21.
‘the cadaver’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 17.