Ben Macintyre - A Spy Among Friends

‘contacts with other SIS’: ibid.

‘fire-watching nights’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby, My Silent War , p. xx.

‘bulging briefcase’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 63.

‘longhand, in neat, tiny writing’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 118.

‘MR NICHOLAS ELLIOTT’: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives (London, 1998), p. 311.

Chapter 3: Otto and Sonny

‘Something I owe’: Rudyard Kipling, Kim (London, 1994), Chapter 8.

‘penetration agent working’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxix.

‘the exquisite relish’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 291.

‘My ambition is fame’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 21.

‘constantly aware of his father’s’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 133.

‘He should always’: ibid., p. 134.

‘sudden conversion’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxx.

‘the inner fortress’: ibid., p. xxix.

‘I left the university’: ibid., p. xxxi.

‘I can hardly see him’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 183.

‘devote his life to the’: ibid.

‘at a crisis point’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 40.

‘tremendous little sexpot’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 159.

‘Actually quite warm’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm , p. 168.

‘Even though the basis’: Genrikh Borovik, ed. Phillip Knightly, The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby (London, 1994), p. 22.

‘I do hope Kim gets a job’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 162.

‘Excess can always’: ibid., p. 137.

‘man of decisive importance’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm , p. 169.

‘man of considerable’: ibid.

‘He was a marvellous man’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 29.

‘important and interesting work’: ibid., p. 25.

‘I trusted him’: ibid., p. 27.

‘prophet of the better orgasm’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm , p. 170.

‘a poor man’s sexual performance’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 163.

‘One does not look twice’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxxii.

‘Of all the passions’: C. S. Lewis, The Inner Ring , Memorial Lecture at King’s College, University of London, in 1944, collected in Mere Christianity (London, 2012).

‘My future looked romantic’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 28.

‘By background, education’: ibid.

‘The anti-fascist movement’: ibid.

‘real and palpable way’: ibid.

‘like poetry’: ibid., p. 33.

‘We have recruited the son’: ibid., p. 39.

‘What are his prospects’: ibid., p. 40.

‘the most interesting’: ibid., p. 52.

‘refers to his parents’: ibid., p. 147.

‘his marvellous education’: ibid., p. 31.

‘the remoter open spaces’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxix.

‘His wife was his first lover’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 148.

‘I sometimes felt’: ibid., p. 33.

‘I was certain that my life’: ibid., p. 31.

‘constant encouragement’: ibid.

‘Söhnchen comes from’: ibid., p. 43.

‘It’s amazing that’: ibid., p. 55.

‘Once you’re inside’: ibid., p. 56.

‘He has many friends’: ibid., p. 43.

‘profoundly repulsive’: ibid., p. 59.

‘in the eyes of my friends’: ibid.

‘how difficult it is to leave’: ibid.

‘It seems unlikely that’: ibid., pp. 52–3.

‘The people I could’: ibid., p. 46.

‘very serious and aloof’: ibid., p. 44.

‘Sonny has high praise’: ibid.

‘Very smart’: ibid., p. 44.

‘Do you think that’: ibid., p. 48.

‘I lost my faith’: Elisabeth K. Poretsky, Our Own People: A Memoir of ‘Ignace Reiss’ and His Friends (Oxford, 1969), p. 214.

‘shiny grey complexion’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm , p. 180.

‘an inspirational figure’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 194.

‘Both of them were intelligent’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 174.

‘handles our money’: ibid.

‘We have great difficulty’: ibid., p. 88.

‘unit strengths and locations’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 71.

‘a royalist of the most’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 111.

‘I would be lying’: ibid., pp. 111–12.

‘He works with great’: ibid., p. 129.

‘obviously been in the thick’: Wright, Spycatcher , p. 260.

‘doing a very dangerous job’: ibid., p. 173.

‘important work for peace’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street , p. 169.

‘he could always’: Wright, Spycatcher , p. 173.

‘Even if he had been able’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 89.

‘They are very pleased’: ibid., p. 95.

‘a decent chap’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 56.

‘I know that as a former priest’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm , p. 183.

‘infinite patience’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxix.

‘intelligent understanding’: ibid.

‘painstaking advice’: ibid.

‘marvellous men’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 29.

‘What’s going to happen’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 71.

‘activity in England’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm , p. 185.

‘I had been told in pressing’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxviii.

‘Where is the Café’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 143.

‘extraordinarily valuable’: ibid., p. 151

‘the appropriate hands’: ibid...the appropriate hands’: ibid..

Chapter 4: Boo, Boo, Baby, I’m a Spy

‘true sense of values’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 178.

‘His intellectual equipment’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 109.

‘an utter shit’: cited in Anthony Read and David Fisher, Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies (London, 1985), p. 361.

‘Vivian was long past’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 48.

‘He would murmur’: ibid., p. 69.

‘But behind the façade’: ibid.

‘The rewards of such unorthodoxy’: ibid., p. 70.

‘the only man in The Hotel’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 205.

‘golden lads’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 470.

‘You know as well as I do’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 490.

‘in the hurly-burly’: Guy Liddell, Diaries , KV4/466.

‘a pleasant personality’: ibid.

‘For every lead that produced’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 48.

‘monstrous’: ibid.

‘a model of economy’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 183.

‘I had the advantage’: ibid., p. 110.

‘an interesting and promising’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 167.

‘especially valuable’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 64.

‘few social graces’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels , p. 312.

‘inclined towards inertia’: ibid.

‘weakness [for] women’: ibid.

‘the weak link’: ibid., p. 313.

‘fat briefcase’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 48.

‘Her political views’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 208.

‘difficult, exhausting’: ibid., p. 28.

‘twinges of panic’: ibid., p. 203.

‘a young Englishman’: Andrew, The Defence of the Realm , p. 267.