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‘hardly surprising given’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief , p. 282.

‘thrown into a state of confusion’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 505.

‘consummate skill and sympathy’: ibid.

‘dine out’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.

‘formidably impressed both by’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 81. There is some confusion over where Elliott and Angleton first met. Elliott recalled that Angleton came to stay with him Switzerland in 1946, but it seems more likely, according to his family and other sources, that their first encounter was in London a year earlier, during the period of the Vermehren debriefing.

‘Beneath the rather sinister’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 81.

‘At that time, secrets’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 62.

‘Sit down, I’d like to have’ to’Because the Chief told him’: Elliott, My Little Eye , pp. 17–18.

‘For centuries the Office’: Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy : Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935–1990 (London, 1995), p. 85.

‘of all their contacts’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief , p. 23.

‘leading Catholic activists’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 110.

‘could have formed the backbone’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 328.

‘All had been deported’: Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief , p. 23.

‘Because Moscow had decided’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 110.

‘drive against the Catholic Church’: TNA KV 4/469.

‘I was responsible for the deaths’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 128.

Chapter 7: The Soviet Defector

‘We’ve been penetrated’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 66.

‘the next enemy’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 92.

‘professional handling of any cases’: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev (eds), Triplex: Secrets from the Cambridge Five (Yale, 2009), p. 115.

‘provided you do not do anything’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 566.

‘I must do everything’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 94.

‘Cowgill must go’: ibid.

‘great warmth’: ibid., p. 100.

‘the idea was his own’: ibid.

‘At one stroke’: Robert Cecil in Christopher Andrew and D. Dilks (eds), The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century (London, 1984), p. 179.

‘The new appointment’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 236.

‘jovial, kindly man’: ibid., p. 177.

‘a splendid professional’: ibid.

‘unburden’: ibid.

‘I must thank you’: ibid., p. 237.

‘After the gloom of London’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 141.

‘not only our best source on Germany’: Tony Paterson, ‘Germany finally honours the “traitor” spy’, Independent , 25 September 2004.

‘Communists and communism’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 49.

‘over one thousand enemy’: Ted Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster (New York, 1999), p. 257.

‘heavily dependent on Philby’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 353.

‘enigmatic wraith’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 57.

‘haunted the streets’: ibid., p. 59.

‘You would sit on a sofa’: David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War’s Most Important Agents (Guilford, CT, 2003), p. 18.

‘perhaps the ablest’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 105.

‘Was it freedom’: ibid., p. 108.

‘Not one of them’: ibid.

‘Stanley was a bit agitated’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 238.

‘I tried to calm him down’: ibid.

‘prank’: Gordon Brook-Shepherd, The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors (London, 1988), p. 41.

‘deplorably nervous state’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 119.

‘less than rock steady’: ibid.

‘obviously been preparing’: ibid., p. 120.

‘I consider this sum’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 525.

‘I know, for instance’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 344; Wright, Spycatcher, p. 281.

‘No one’s going to turn’: Knightley, The Master Spy , pp. 135–6.

‘copies of the material provided’: Edward Harrison, The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer (Exeter, 2012), p. 177.

‘something of the greatest importance’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 121.

‘That evening I worked late’: ibid.

‘Don’t worry, old man’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 178.

‘Someone fully briefed’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 121.

‘meeting Volkov’: ibid., p. 120.

‘work the night before’: ibid., p. 122.

‘Don’t you read my contract’: Alistair Horne, But What do you Actually Do? A Literary Vagabondage (London, 2011), p. 186.

‘with obvious relief’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 122.

‘diplomatic couriers’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 344.

‘this might be the last memorable’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 118.

‘Sorry, old man’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 138.

‘inexplicable delays and evasions’: Harrison, The Young Kim Philby , p. 178.

‘I thought he was just irresponsible’: ibid.

‘It wasn’t Volkov’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 126.

‘She said he was out’: ibid.

‘I asked for Volkov’: ibid., p. 127.

‘It’s no bloody good’: ibid.

‘The case was dead’: ibid.

‘on stretchers and heavily sedated’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 344.

‘brutal interrogation’: ibid., p. 345.

‘a very narrow squeak’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 118.

‘nasty piece of work’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 138.

‘deserved what he got’: ibid.

‘extremely unlikely’: Jeffery, MI6 , p. 525.

‘indiscretion in the British Embassy’: ibid.

‘test the waters’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 365.

‘expressed sympathy’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 107.

‘the effect his work’: Trento, The Secret History of the CIA , p. 38.

‘felt guilty about it’: ibid.

‘He helped me to think’: ibid.

‘worse for wear’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 365.

‘warned the Centre’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 346.

‘without reserve’: ibid.

‘Stanley informed me’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 242.

‘Stanley is an exceptionally valuable’: ibid., p. 244.

‘conscientious work for over’: ibid., p. 249.

‘I looked around’: Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair , p. 42.

Chapter 8: Rising Stars

‘I believed we were’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 3.

‘The continuation of a civilization’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 101.

‘I’m in it for the belly-laughs’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.

‘a form of defence mechanism’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 180.

‘Verbal abuse is not’: ibid., p. 61.

‘the British tradition’: ibid., p. 111.

‘One of the joys of living’: ibid., p. 150.

‘oldest and closest friends’: ibid., p.151.

‘British skiing aristocracy’: Peter Lunn obituary, Daily Telegraph , 12 June 2011.

‘the ideal person’: Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations (London, 2001), p. 418.

‘attempting to piece together’: ibid.