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Authors: Ben Macintyre

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‘crude manners’: ibid.

 
‘a stiff drink’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 175.

 
‘My clear duty was to fight it out’: ibid.

 
‘There is no doubt’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘who would wish very much’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 176.        

 

Chapter 11: Peach

‘rapier mind’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 113.

 
‘deeply subtle twists’: ibid.

 
‘How long will you be away’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 181.

 
‘a pleasant hour’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 181.

 
‘matters of mutual concern’: ibid.

 
‘major sensation’: TNA PREM 8/1524 (no. 1792).

 
‘highly professional, perceptive and accusatory’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, p. 44.

 
‘Philby was a Soviet spy’: ibid.

 
a retrospective exercise in spite’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 185.

 
‘suffered severe concussion’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 53.

 
‘conviction’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, p. 45.

 
‘without reference to Philby’: ibid.

 
‘the bottom line was’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 53.

 
‘he remained convinced’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
p. 45.

 
‘held in high esteem’: ibid.

 
‘What is the rest’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 57.

 
‘apprehensive’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 182.

 
‘He did his best to put’: ibid.

 
‘might have views on the case’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘this horrible business’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 427.

 
‘There was no case against’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 438.

 
‘nondescript’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 127.

 
‘pure trade’: ibid., p. 124.

 
‘establishment’: ibid.

 
‘very sketchy’: ibid.

 
‘an indiscreet, disorganised’: ibid., p. 125.

 
‘Kim is extremely worried’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘wholly convincing’: ibid.

 
‘I dined with Anthony Blunt’: ibid.

 
‘hard to believe’: ibid.

 
‘Fire Philby or we break off’: Burton Hersh,
The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
(New York, 1992), p. 321.

 
‘severely shaken’: TNA PREM 8/1524 (no. 1803).

 
‘clean house regardless’: ibid.

 
‘In the State Department’: ibid.

 
‘their wholehearted commitment’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 126.

 
‘While all the points’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘I’m in no particular hurry’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 126.

 
‘subsequently converted her’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘he himself had never’: ibid.

 
‘denied emphatically’: ibid.

 
‘nasty little question’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 183.

 
‘insatiable appetite for new’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 173.

 
‘guilty only of an unwise friendship’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 183.

 
‘the victim of unsubstantiated’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 127.

 
‘I’m no good to you now’: Seale and McConville,
Philby,
p. 217.

 
‘obvious distress’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 184.        

 
‘not possibly be a traitor’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 439.

 
‘dedicated, loyal officer’: Chapman Pincher,
Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of Espionage
(London, 2012), p. 401.

 
‘great black cloud’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 184.

 
‘He said that he had been’: ibid.    

 
‘Personally I would be delighted’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 176.

 
‘I suppose he is not doing’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘in jest’: ibid.

 
‘it was already too late’: ibid.

‘The case against Philby’: ibid.

 
‘sticky’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 185.

 
‘judicial inquiry’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 427.

 
‘Hello Buster’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 297.

 
‘How would I know?’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 186.

 
‘Who was that young’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 298.

 
‘How could I not help her?’: ibid.

 
‘So far, he has admitted’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘It all became a shouting match’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 133.

 
‘The interrogation of Philby’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473
.

 
‘I find myself unable’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 427.

 
‘There’s no hope’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 133.

 
‘Philby’s attitude throughout’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘had all the cards in his hands’: ibid.

 
‘Nicholas Elliott again referred’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 427.

 
‘counter-attacking’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘foremost exponent in the country’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 336.

 
‘manner verging on the exquisite’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 187.

 
‘two little traps’: ibid.

 
‘Nothing could have been more’: ibid.

 
‘remained open’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/473.

 
‘hanging’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 187.

 
‘I would have given’: ibid.

 
‘a much more favourable’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 427.

 
‘unproven’: ibid.

 
‘Investigation will continue’: PREM 11/4457.

‘We feel that the case’: ibid.

 

Chapter 12: The Robber Barons

 

‘To whom should a wife’s allegiance’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 311.

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