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Authors: Ben Macintyre
‘We should have sent a team’: ibid., p. 194.
‘But after lengthy interrogation’: ibid., p. 325.
‘He had been my boss’: Bristow,
A Game of Moles
, p. 229.
‘horror’: ibid.
‘I never thought he would accept’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 304.
‘What a shame we reopened’: ibid.
‘disappointed’: ibid.
‘I tried to repair the damage’: ibid., p. 305.
‘face the awful truth’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, p. 45.
‘I had them burned’: ibid., p. 46.
‘He was an unforgivable traitor’: Balfour Paul,
Bagpipes in Babylon
, p. 187.
‘dumbfounded’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 487.
‘unbelievable’: ibid., p. 488.
‘He was the best actor’: ibid.
‘What Philby provided’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 125.
‘Since Mr Philby resigned’: Edward Heath (Lord Privy Seal), House of Commons debate, 1 July 1963,
Hansard
, Volume 680, cc 33–5.
‘Hello, Mr Philby’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 527.
‘Philby was allowed to escape’: Bristow,
A Game of Moles
, p. 281.
‘To my mind the whole business’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 238.
‘the secret service had actively’: ibid.
‘I knew exactly how to handle it’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 217.
‘spiriting Philby out of the Lebanon’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 236.
‘a mistake, simple stupidity’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 323.
‘Burgess was a bit of an embarrassment’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
pp. 222–3.
‘unmistakably Russian’: Eleanor Philby,
The Spy I Loved
,
p. 22.
‘I’m from Kim’: ibid.
‘Kim was an active communist’: ibid., p. 56.
‘surprising tenderness’: ibid.
‘We have definitely known’: ibid.
‘the victim of a prolonged’: ibid., p. xiii.
‘All I am thinking of now’: ibid., p. 59.
‘I don’t know what’: ibid., p. 64.
‘Buy yourself some very warm clothes’: ibid., p. 66.
‘What would
you
do’: ibid., p. 63.
‘she finally admitted’: ibid.
‘passionate loyalty and devotion’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 182.
‘Although I had put the fear of God’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 94.
‘Eleanor, is that you?’: Eleanor Philby,
The Spy I Loved
,
p. 69.
‘Dear Nick’: undated letter from Kim Philby to Nicholas Elliott, Cleveland Cram collection, Georgetown University Library, Washington DC.
‘It was ridiculous to suppose’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 95.
‘an incredibly clumsy piece’: ibid.
‘many hours of discussion’: ibid.
‘because first’: ibid.
‘tragic episode’: ibid., p. 97.
‘Put some flowers for me’: ibid., p. 98.
‘elite’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. xxxii.
‘He never revealed’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 270.
‘Englishman to his fingertips’: ibid.
‘homeland’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 373.
‘belonged’: Murray Sayle, ‘London-Moscow: The Spies are Jousting’,
Sunday Times
, 6 January 1968.
‘wholly and irreversibly English’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 527.
‘Aluminium bats, white balls’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 239.
‘the ghastly din’: ibid., p. 253.
‘hooligans inflamed’: ibid.
‘What is more important’: Eleanor Philby,
The Spy I Loved
, p. 78.
The party, of course’: ibid.
‘stayed the course’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. xxxi.
‘If you only knew what hell’: Balfour Paul,
Bagpipes in Babylon
, p. 186.
‘Friendship is the most important thing’: ibid.
‘painful to think that during’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 488.
‘I wasn’t laughing at them’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 254.
‘It had travelled with him’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 189.
‘supreme example of schizophrenia’: ibid.
‘He betrayed many people’: Eleanor Philby,
The Spy I Loved
, p. 175.
‘No one can ever really know’: ibid., p. xiv.
‘The emotional wreckage’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 206.
‘Jim just continued to think’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, p. 48.
Never again would he permit’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 193.
‘This is all Kim’s work’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 207.
‘He had trusted him’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 81.
‘I don’t know that the damage’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 193.
‘come clean in the Philby case’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 565.
‘To be in administration’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 179.
‘Rather to my surprise’: ibid., p. 192.
‘a modern Cecil Rhodes’: ibid., p. 191.
‘the Harry Lime of Cheapside’: ibid., p. 192.
‘incapable of leading that kind of life’: ibid., p. 195.
‘gift for dowsing’: ibid.
‘alternative to involvement’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 65.
‘showing a quite unjustified lack’: ibid., p. 109.
‘extremely well over an extended period’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 182.
‘I have naturally given thought’: ibid.
‘Outwardly he was a kindly man’: ibid., p. 183.
‘a façade, in a schizophrenic personality’: ibid., p. 190.
‘sad exiled life’: ibid., p. 189.
‘dreary people, a spying servant’: ibid.
‘wasted in a futile cause’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 99.
‘decided to betray’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 190.
‘He had charm to burn’: ibid., p. 189.
‘The whole thing was staged’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 215.
‘desire to spare SIS another spy scandal’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 323.
‘blissful peace’: ibid., p. 357.