A Spy Among Friends (59 page)

 
‘The sky was the limit’: Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley,
Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation
(London, 1968), p. 211.

 
‘the driving force’: ibid.

 
‘I got a few nibbles’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 132.

 
‘It was the belief’: ibid.

 
‘habit’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 151.

 
‘He demonstrated regularly’: ibid.

 
‘Our close association’: ibid.

 
‘used to pride himself’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
p. 47.

 
‘Our discussions ranged’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 151.

 
‘Both CIA and SIS’: ibid., p. 152.

 
‘Many of Harvey’s lobsters’: ibid.

 
‘During those long, boozy lunches’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
pp. 46–7.  

 
‘Everything was written up’: ibid., p. 44.

 
‘chaotic’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 420.

 
‘We’ll get it right next time’: Corera,
MI6
, p. 67.

 
‘We had agents parachuting in’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
p. 47.  

 
‘the timing and geographical’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p.159.

 
‘I do not know what happened’: ibid.

 
‘We knew that they would’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 137.

 
‘The boys in London imagined’: ibid., p. 146.

 
‘tied to the back of a Jeep’: ibid., p. 150.

 
‘Our famous radio game’: Corera,
MI6
, p. 62.

 
‘It was obvious there was’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 104.

 
‘Our security was very’: Corera,
MI6
, p. 63.

 
‘well and truly blown’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 105.

 
‘Albania would fall from the Soviet’: Nicholas Bethell, ‘Profits and Losses of Treachery’,
Independent
, 6 September 1994.

 
‘There is little question’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 212.

 
‘He gave us vital information’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 123.

 
‘The agents we sent into Albania’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 128.

 
‘gave Philby over drinks’: Corera,
MI6,
p. 65.

Chapter 10: Homer’s Odyssey

‘Jim and Kim were very fond’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, p. 43.

 
‘After a year of keeping up’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 151.

 
‘If you have a lot of money’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 264.

 
‘The more visitors I had’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 146.

 
‘valuable agent network’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 376.

 
‘particularly important’: ibid.

 
‘Philby was looking on’: ibid., p. 378.

 
‘genuine mental block’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 167.

 
‘before the net closed in’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 423.

 
‘He clearly feels’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/472.

 
‘give us more time’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 379.

 
‘parental pride in being’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 187.

 
‘I have a shock for you’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 126.

 
‘for a few days’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 416.

 
‘I know him only too well’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 165.

 
‘I do not think that’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 422.

 
‘was not the sort of person’: ibid.

 
‘eccentricities’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 166.

 
‘What does he mean
worse
’: ibid.

 
‘Knowing the trouble’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 186.

 
‘The inevitable drunken scenes’: ibid.

 
‘keep an eye’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 166.

 
‘secure line of communication to Moscow’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 423.

 
‘the most outstanding historian’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 419.

 
‘the cheapest bourbon’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 53.

 
‘a peculiar garb’: ibid.

 
‘for fantastic profits’: ibid.

 
‘a bloated alcoholic’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 88.

 
‘What Freudian impulse’: ibid., p. 121.

 
‘beastily distorted’:  ibid.

 
‘How could you?’: ibid.

 
‘a social disaster’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 53.

 
‘handsome’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 184.

 
‘Forget it’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 168.

 
‘Don’t you go too’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 171.

 
‘There’s serious trouble’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 200.

 
‘Donald’s now in such a state’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 424.

 
‘We agree to your organizing’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 201.

 
‘no predisposition to be a spy’: ibid., p. 22.

 
‘men who are too short’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 335.

 
‘at Victoria, MI5’s men’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 207.

 
‘Back on Monday!’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 430.

 
‘Don’t go with him’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 204.

 
‘The Centre had concluded’: ibid.

 
‘It just happened’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 109.

 
‘even in Strasbourg’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 156.

 
‘It seems a pity the Foreign Office’: ibid.
,
p. 46.

 
‘at all costs and by all means’: Press Association, News Report, 7 July 1951, paimages.co.uk/preview/?urn=2.7587460

 
‘6’3’, normal build’: ibid.

 
‘decanter of poisoned Scotch’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 430.

 
‘Kim’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 172.

 
‘lack of discipline’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 426.