Ben Macintyre - A Spy Among Friends

‘We told him he must’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 202.

‘About 58, 5 feet 6 inches’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels , p. 298.

‘There aren’t any’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. xii.

‘tenth on the list’: ibid., p. 167.

‘no Soviet citizens’: ibid., p. 210.

‘obvious absurdity’: ibid., p. 201.

‘highly suspicious’: ibid., p. 200.

‘dubious’: ibid., p. 196.

‘tested and retested’: ibid., p. 204.

‘upside down’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 61.

‘to discuss the mystery’: ibid.

‘far outside the normal scope’: ibid.

‘another flood’: ibid.

‘Luck played an enormous’: ibid., p. 128.

‘cloistered’: ibid., p. 72.

‘those who sit at desks’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 15.

‘anxious to get away’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 111.

‘All foreigners are bloody’: ibid., p. 16.

‘I was delighted’: ibid., p. 111.

‘who was being sent’: ibid., p. 112.

‘well-stocked bar’: ibid.

‘the tattiest army officer’: ibid., p. 113.

‘the shortage of contraceptives’: ibid.

‘managed to alleviate’: ibid.

‘roving brothel’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 78.

‘two lonely Germans’: ibid.

‘delight’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 117.

‘pained tolerance’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 418.

‘great ability and energy’: ibid., p. 419.

‘one of the great espionage’: ibid., p. 417.

‘Everyone was well informed’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 122.

‘I’m involved in a dangerous game’: Barry Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues (New York, 1989), p. xvii.

‘not a kid glove affair’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 420.

‘crammed from top’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 120.

‘extremely erudite’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 73.

‘Its clientele’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 122.

‘white coloured skin’: ibid.

‘a ferocious dry martini’: ibid., p. 123.

‘spoke excellent English’: ibid.

‘the capacity for friendship’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 15.

‘A large amount’: ibid.

‘One particularly remarkable man’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 117.

‘a most unattractive’: ibid., p. 130.

‘operating a clandestine’: ibid.

‘was not altogether’: ibid.

‘more people involved’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 50.

‘All were kept under’: ibid., p. 51.

‘schoolboyish’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 109.

‘Bars, beards and blondes’: ibid.

‘the worst claret’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 177.

‘After three of Ellie’s’: ibid., p. 123.

‘hoping he didn’t mind’: ibid. p.126.

Chapter 5: Three Young Spies

‘two minutes from MI5’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 71.

‘the frowsty old’: Malcolm Muggeridge, book review of A Very Limited Edition , Esquire , May 1966, p. 84.

‘a notably bewildered’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 74.

‘a bunch of amateur bums’: ibid., p. 75.

‘They lost no opportunity’: ibid., p. 74.

‘pain in the neck’: ibid., p. 76.

‘formative years’: Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton – CIA’s Master Spy Hunter (London, 1991), p. 13.

‘more English than’: ibid., p. 12.

‘a mysterious person’: ibid., p. 13.

‘What a miracle’: Michael Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence (Boston, 2008), p. 83.

‘arts and crafts’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 298.

‘I do remember’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 49.

‘earned my respect’: Philby, My Silent War , pp. 150–1.

‘Philby may have felt’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 49.

‘Philby was one of Angleton’s’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 118.

‘Our European friends’: W. Bryher, The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940–1946 (New York, 1972), pp. ix-x.

‘as if they contained the secret of the Trinity’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 299.

‘restless appetite for organizing’: William Empson to James Angleton, 19 February 1940, quoted in Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 22.

‘extremely brilliant’: ibid., p. 45.

‘Once I met Philby’: Joseph J.Trento, The Secret History of the CIA (New York, 2001), p. 37.

‘an almost total moron’: West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels , p. 311.

‘We had achieved’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 78.

‘in all intelligence matters’: ibid., p. 80.

‘beginning to make a career’: ibid., p. 79.

‘I regarded my SIS’: ibid., p. xxix.

‘incomprehensible’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 272.

‘A straight penetration’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxix.

‘He is lying to us’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. xiv.

‘He was so completely’: Yuri Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller (New York, 1995), p. 201.

‘in such a manner’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 218.

‘single-front struggle’: ibid., p. xi.

‘modest bit towards’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 128.

‘Moody and nervous’: Vermehren file, TNA KV 2/956.

‘The city is riddled’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues , p. 224.

‘specialised in making Britons’: ibid.

‘I remembered him vividly’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 135.

‘small roundish man’: ibid.

‘instantly dismissed’: ibid.

‘The information obtained’: ibid., p. 133.

‘If he had not been a spy’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues , p. 164.

‘penchant for involving’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 120.

‘The names of the Azerbaijanis’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues , p. 227.

‘the Arab cause depended’: ibid., p. 225.

‘ Twelve-land, Twelve-lan d ’: ibid., p. 201.

Chapter 6: The German Defector

‘unfit to represent’: Erich Vermehren, obituary by Richard Bassett, The Independent , 3 May 2005.

‘Erich Vermehren?’: Richard Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery (London, 2006), p. 280.

‘I had a sense’: ibid.

‘signs of instability’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 315.

‘a highly strung’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 504.

‘intensely anti-Nazi’: ibid.

‘fully convinced’: ibid.

‘the complete Abwehr setup’: ibid.

‘quantity of detailed information’: ibid.

‘it would not be long’: ibid.

‘a hell of flap’: ibid., p. 505.

‘lest his disappearance’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues , p. 232.

‘he was given breakfast’: ibid.

‘swamped by an invasion’: ibid.

‘gravely prejudiced the activities’: ibid., p. 229.

‘exceedingly tedious’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 126.

‘They are so God-awful conscientious’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 42.

‘I don’t mind telling you’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 127.

‘obstacle race with frequent jumps’: ibid.

‘German-Turkish intelligence’: Rubin, Istanbul Intrigues , p. 228.

‘The twenty-four-year-old attaché’: Associated Press , 9 February 1945.

‘If an enemy alien’: Liddell, Diaries , KV4/466.

‘outstanding blow’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 504.

‘exploded’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 315.