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‘the best and most ingenious’: ibid., p. 196.

‘priceless intelligence’: ibid.

‘I was really helping’: ibid.

‘The English are hopeless’: ibid., p. 204.

‘sacrificing himself’: ibid.

‘Klop was a man’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 149.

‘complicated man’: ibid., p. 102.

‘His motivation was solely’: ibid.

‘Is Hitler going to start’: ibid.

‘On present plans’: ibid.

‘startling statement’: ibid.

‘always displayed’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 246.

‘by the autumn of 1939’: Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949 (London, 2010), p. 385.

‘it could only be’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 242.

‘brilliant linguist’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 103.

‘an ostentatious ass’: ibid.

‘overthrow the present regime’: p. 382.

‘I have a hunch’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 244.

‘the big man himself’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 384.

‘No one was in sight’: ibid.

‘The next moment’: Sigismund Payne Best, The Venlo Incident (London, 1950), p. 17.

‘At one stroke’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 103.

‘able to construct’: ibid.

‘intense ambition’: ibid.

‘possibility of winning’: ibid.

‘In the long run’: arcre.com/archive/sis/venlo

‘selling everything to Moscow’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 262.

‘as disastrous as it was’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 103.

‘Oh what a tangled web’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 11.

‘Information has been’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 106.

‘It soon became apparent’: ibid.

‘We’re in the final’: ibid., p. 109.

‘normality and calmness’: ibid.

‘never occurred to me’: ibid.

‘England was gripped’: ibid., p. 111.

‘give evidence of what’: ibid.

‘feeling of camaraderie’: ibid., p. 110.

‘My only moment’: ibid.

‘Basil Fisher was killed’: ibid.

Chapter 2: Section V

‘He was the sort of man’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Phillip Knightley, The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby (London, 1988), p. 119.

‘halting stammered witticisms’: Graham Greene, foreword to Kim Philby, My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy (London, 1968), p. xx.

‘great pluck’: E. G. de Caux to Ralph Deakin, 14 January 1938, The Times Archives.

‘Many express disappointment’: The Times , 17 November 1939.

‘Camel-hair overcoat’: expenses claim letter, The Times Archives.

‘dropped a few hints’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxviii.

‘A person like you’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 79.

‘We’ll figure something’: ibid.

‘war work’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 9.

‘intensely likeable’: ibid.

‘I began to show off’: ibid., p. 10.

‘nothing recorded against’: ibid.

‘I was asked about him’: Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville, Philby: The Long Road to Moscow (London, 1973), p. 135.

‘set Europe ablaze’: Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years: Memoirs, 1931–1945 (London, 1957), p. 366.

‘I escaped to London’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 63.

‘In those days’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 111.

‘He had an ability’: ibid., p. 183.

‘the inherent evil’: ibid., p. 105.

‘very rarely discussed’: ibid., p. 183.

‘the English batting’: ibid.

‘Indeed he did not strike me’: ibid.

‘pose of amiable’: Hugh R. Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason, and Secret Services (London, 1968), p. 42.

‘by and large pretty stupid’: Christopher Andrew, Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (London, 1985), p. 249.

‘An exceptional person’: ibid.

‘clarity of mind’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 183.

‘He was much more’: ibid.

‘The old Secret Service’: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time , vol. II (London, 1973), p. 136.

‘slouching about in sweaters’: ibid.

‘You’d drop in to see’: Kim Philby, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1988, in Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 84.

‘atmosphere of haute cuisine ’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 35.

‘out of fun rather’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 184.

‘To start with we always’: Dennis Wheatley, The Deception Planners: My Secret War (London, 1980), p. 30.

‘for an hour’: ibid.

‘He was a formidable’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 183.

‘serious drinkers should never’: ibid.

‘violent headache’: ibid.

‘It was an organisation’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 22.

They spoke the same language’: interview with Mark Elliott, 11 November 2013.

‘negate, confuse, deceive’: Leo D. Carl, The International Dictionary of Intelligence (McLean Virginia, 1990), p. 83.

‘with a knowledge of Spain’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 35.

‘The Old Boy network’: ibid., p. 37.

‘purblind, disastrous’: Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair , p. 37.

‘As an intelligence officer’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 46.

‘suspicious and bristling’: ibid.

‘personal contacts with’: ibid., p. 43.

‘He was a bit of a communist’: Seale and McConville, Philby , p. 135.

‘active pursuit and liquidation’: Anthony Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood: H. St John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century (London, 1995), p. 276.

‘Aileen belonged to that class’: Flora Solomon and Barnet Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street: The Memoirs of Flora Solomon (London, 1984), p. 172.

‘He found an avid listener’: ibid.

‘She was highly intelligent’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 182.

‘parental pride’: ibid., p. 187.

‘long Sunday lunches’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War , p. xx.

‘small loyalties’: ibid.

‘He had something about him’: Seale and McConville, Philby , p. 133.

‘merry band’: Desmond Bristow with Bill Bristow, A Game of Moles: The Deceptions of an MI6 Officer (London, 1993), p. 17.

‘a purchaser of skunk excrement’: ibid., p. 18.

‘The sense of dedication’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 276.

‘No one could have’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War , p. xix.

‘a gentle-looking man’: Bristow, A Game of Moles , pp. 262–3.

‘cosiness’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 63.

‘It was not difficult’: ibid.

‘a good cricket umpire’: Felix Cowgill, interview with Anthony Cave Brown, 1983, in Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 275.

‘calculating ambition’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 119.

‘single-mindedness’: ibid.

‘There was something’: Hugh Trevor-Roper, interview by Graham Turner, Daily Telegraph , 28 January 2003.

‘It was not long’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 53.

‘to good use in disrupting’: ibid., p. 55.

‘mingle with the crowd’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 387.

‘party-goer’s image’: ibid.

‘This is the last time’: Charles Whiting, Ghost Front: the Ardennes before the Battle of the Bulge (London, 2002), pp. 203–4.

‘an operational disaster’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 52.

‘virtually at will’: ibid., p. 63.