Ben Macintyre - A Spy Among Friends

‘Our famous radio game’: Corera, MI6 , p. 62.

‘It was obvious there was’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 104.

‘Our security was very’: Corera, MI6 , p. 63.

‘well and truly blown’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 105.

‘Albania would fall from the Soviet’: Nicholas Bethell, ‘Profits and Losses of Treachery’, Independent , 6 September 1994.

‘There is little question’: Bethell, The Great Betrayal , p. 212.

‘He gave us vital information’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 123.

‘The agents we sent into Albania’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 128.

‘gave Philby over drinks’: Corera, MI6, p. 65.

Chapter 10: Homer’s Odyssey

‘Jim and Kim were very fond’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 43.

‘After a year of keeping up’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 151.

‘If you have a lot of money’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 264.

‘The more visitors I had’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 146.

‘valuable agent network’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 376.

‘particularly important’: ibid.

‘Philby was looking on’: ibid., p. 378.

‘genuine mental block’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 167.

‘before the net closed in’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 423.

‘He clearly feels’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/472.

‘give us more time’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 379.

‘parental pride in being’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 187.

‘I have a shock for you’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 126.

‘for a few days’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 416.

‘I know him only too well’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 165.

‘I do not think that’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 422.

‘was not the sort of person’: ibid.

‘eccentricities’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 166.

‘What does he mean worse ’: ibid.

‘Knowing the trouble’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 186.

‘The inevitable drunken scenes’: ibid.

‘keep an eye’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 166.

‘secure line of communication to Moscow’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 423.

‘the most outstanding historian’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 419.

‘the cheapest bourbon’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors , p. 53.

‘a peculiar garb’: ibid.

‘for fantastic profits’: ibid.

‘a bloated alcoholic’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 88.

‘What Freudian impulse’: ibid., p. 121.

‘beastily distorted’: ibid.

‘How could you?’: ibid.

‘a social disaster’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors , p. 53.

‘handsome’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 184.

‘Forget it’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 168.

‘Don’t you go too’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 171.

‘There’s serious trouble’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 200.

‘Donald’s now in such a state’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 424.

‘We agree to your organizing’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 201.

‘no predisposition to be a spy’: ibid., p. 22.

‘men who are too short’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 335.

‘at Victoria, MI5’s men’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 207.

‘Back on Monday!’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 430.

‘Don’t go with him’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 204.

‘The Centre had concluded’: ibid.

‘It just happened’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 109.

‘even in Strasbourg’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 156.

‘It seems a pity the Foreign Office’: ibid. , p. 46.

‘at all costs and by all means’: Press Association, News Report, 7 July 1951, paimages.co.uk/preview/?urn=2.7587460

‘6’3’, normal build’: ibid.

‘decanter of poisoned Scotch’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 430.

‘Kim’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 172.

‘lack of discipline’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 426.

‘crude manners’: ibid.

‘a stiff drink’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 175.

‘My clear duty was to fight it out’: ibid.

‘There is no doubt’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘who would wish very much’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 176.

Chapter 11: Peach

‘rapier mind’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 113.

‘deeply subtle twists’: ibid.

‘How long will you be away’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 181.

‘a pleasant hour’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 181.

‘matters of mutual concern’: ibid.

‘major sensation’: TNA PREM 8/1524 (no. 1792).

‘highly professional, perceptive and accusatory’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 44.

‘Philby was a Soviet spy’: ibid.

a retrospective exercise in spite’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 185.

‘suffered severe concussion’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors , p. 53.

‘conviction’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 45.

‘without reference to Philby’: ibid.

‘the bottom line was’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors , p. 53.

‘he remained convinced’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 45.

‘held in high esteem’: ibid.

‘What is the rest’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors , p. 57.

‘apprehensive’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 182.

‘He did his best to put’: ibid.

‘might have views on the case’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘this horrible business’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 427.

‘There was no case against’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 438.

‘nondescript’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 127.

‘pure trade’: ibid., p. 124.

‘establishment’: ibid.

‘very sketchy’: ibid.

‘an indiscreet, disorganised’: ibid., p. 125.

‘Kim is extremely worried’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘wholly convincing’: ibid.

‘I dined with Anthony Blunt’: ibid.

‘hard to believe’: ibid.

‘Fire Philby or we break off’: Burton Hersh, The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA (New York, 1992), p. 321.

‘severely shaken’: TNA PREM 8/1524 (no. 1803).

‘clean house regardless’: ibid.

‘In the State Department’: ibid.

‘their wholehearted commitment’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 126.

‘While all the points’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘I’m in no particular hurry’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 126.

‘subsequently converted her’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘he himself had never’: ibid.

‘denied emphatically’: ibid.

‘nasty little question’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 183.

‘insatiable appetite for new’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 173.

‘guilty only of an unwise friendship’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 183.

‘the victim of unsubstantiated’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 127.

‘I’m no good to you now’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 217.

‘obvious distress’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 184.

‘not possibly be a traitor’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 439.