Ben Macintyre - A Spy Among Friends

‘superficial existence’: ibid., p. 408.

‘unique opportunity’: ibid.

‘blueprint for communist’: ibid., p. 419.

‘lifelong communist activists’: ibid.

‘not so much an ideology’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 69.

‘like a British actor’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 21.

‘the cadaver’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors , p. 17.

‘The guy was just’: ibid.

‘Secret Documents of Vatican Diplomacy’: Catholic Herald , ‘Author of “Secret Documents” Sentenced’, 30 July 1948.

‘how vulnerable even’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 50.

‘the Byzantine possibilities’: ibid.

‘crawling around on his hands’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 21.

‘His real love was unravelling’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 81.

‘We were … damned good friends’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 71.

‘Stanley reported that’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 241.

‘What a very nice chap’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 367.

‘happy ending’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street , p. 210.

‘Kim, a happy and devoted father’: ibid.

‘seemed to belong to the misty, juvenile past’: ibid., p. 172.

‘Awkward of her gestures’: ibid., p. 169.

‘incapable of disloyalty’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 208.

‘all round experience’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 142.

‘profoundly sorry’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/468.

‘main southern base’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 130.

‘Kim gave a large farewell party’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/468.

‘given permission to play’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 382.

‘a white Russian’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 133.

‘a fairly free hand’: ibid.

‘start weaving a spy network’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 251.

‘energetic enthusiast’: Dorril, MI6 , p. 210.

‘We knew in advance’: ibid., p. 212.

‘the very mechanism through’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 91.

‘He was totally consumed’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 23.

‘We rediscovered each other’: ibid.

‘I’ve got sitting in my Jeep’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 384.

‘He was both efficient and safe’: ibid., p. 380.

‘willing to back them’: Dorril, MI6 , p. 211.

‘energetic lads’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 252.

‘tip-and-run’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 140.

‘alert and intelligent’: ibid., p. 143.

‘notably subdued’: ibid.

‘It was essential’: ibid.

‘striding through a sparse wood’: ibid.

‘The boys weren’t bad’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 252.

‘in chains’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 185.

‘dying of some mysterious ailment’: ibid., p. 185.

‘charming woman and loving wife’: ibid.

‘It was an intense affront’: ibid.

‘the marriage steadily deteriorated’: ibid.

‘It was James Jesus Angleton’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 386.

‘At one stroke’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 145.

‘unlimited possibilities’: ibid.

‘Who am I supposed to work’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 257.

‘I was lunched at many’: My Silent War , p. 146.

‘One side is open’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 261.

‘chain reaction that would’: Nicholas Bethell, The Great Betrayal: The Untold Story of Kim Philby’s Greatest Coup (London, 1978), p. 41.

‘formal British and American’: ibid., p. 57.

Chapter 9: Stormy Seas

‘There was no question’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 56.

‘all absolutely stark naked’: David de Crespigny Smiley, Interview No. 10340, Imperial War Museum, London, 1988.

‘We were looking only’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 56.

‘that the communists’: ibid., p. 83.

‘Brothers, you’re all going to be killed!’: ibid.

‘fascist terrorists’: ibid.

‘memorable send-off’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 148.

‘a private club afloat’: http://cruiselinehistory.com

‘disgustingly rich friend’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 148.

‘I began to feel that’: ibid.

‘one of the few glories’: ibid., p. 149.

‘admired him as a “professional”’: Gordon Corera, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (London, 2012), p. 64.

‘I was brought up in England’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 13.

‘Things have gone wrong’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 84.

‘Who are you?’: ibid., p. 87.

‘We said we were’: ibid., p. 141.

‘The sun has risen’: ibid., p. 142.

‘several Albanian civilians’: ibid., p. 110.

‘disappointing’: ibid., p. 96.

‘judged by wartime standards to be acceptable’: Dorril, MI6 , p. 389.

‘it would be wrong to abandon’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 97.

‘was the one who made’: Dorril, MI6 , p. 385.

‘Philby was a great charmer’: Corera, MI6 , p. 64.

‘He had charm’: James McCargar, writing as Christopher Felix, ‘A Second Third Man’, New York Times Book Review , 26 May 1968.

‘undoubtedly devoted to his children’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 187.

‘by any objective standard, a dreadful man’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 162.

‘a former FBI man … sacked for drunkenness’: ibid., p. 152.

‘a cold, fishy eye’: ibid., p. 180.

‘bumbling’: ibid., p. 164.

‘puddingy’: ibid.

‘He entertained a lot of Americans’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 101.

‘They were long’: The Cost of Treachery , BBC TV, 30 October 1984.

‘suggestive of complicity’: James McCargar, writing as Christopher Felix, ‘A Second Third Man’.

‘suggest drifting out’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 155.

‘Intelligence officers talk trade’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 399.

‘please one party’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 150.

‘The sky was the limit’: Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley, Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation (London, 1968), p. 211.

‘the driving force’: ibid.

‘I got a few nibbles’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 132.

‘It was the belief’: ibid.

‘habit’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 151.

‘He demonstrated regularly’: ibid.

‘Our close association’: ibid.

‘used to pride himself’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 47.

‘Our discussions ranged’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 151.

‘Both CIA and SIS’: ibid., p. 152.

‘Many of Harvey’s lobsters’: ibid.

‘During those long, boozy lunches’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , pp. 46–7.

‘Everything was written up’: ibid., p. 44.

‘chaotic’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 420.

‘We’ll get it right next time’: Corera, MI6 , p. 67.

‘We had agents parachuting in’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 47.

‘the timing and geographical’: Philby, My Silent War , p.159.

‘I do not know what happened’: ibid.

‘We knew that they would’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 137.

‘The boys in London imagined’: ibid., p. 146.

‘tied to the back of a Jeep’: ibid., p. 150.