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‘dedicated, loyal officer’: Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of Espionage (London, 2012), p. 401.

‘great black cloud’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 184.

‘He said that he had been’: ibid.

‘Personally I would be delighted’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 176.

‘I suppose he is not doing’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘in jest’: ibid.

‘it was already too late’: ibid.

‘The case against Philby’: ibid.

‘sticky’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 185.

‘judicial inquiry’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 427.

‘Hello Buster’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 297.

‘How would I know?’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 186.

‘Who was that young’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 298.

‘How could I not help her?’: ibid.

‘So far, he has admitted’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘It all became a shouting match’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 133.

‘The interrogation of Philby’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473 .

‘I find myself unable’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 427.

‘There’s no hope’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 133.

‘Philby’s attitude throughout’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘had all the cards in his hands’: ibid.

‘Nicholas Elliott again referred’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 427.

‘counter-attacking’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘foremost exponent in the country’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 336.

‘manner verging on the exquisite’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 187.

‘two little traps’: ibid.

‘Nothing could have been more’: ibid.

‘remained open’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘hanging’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 187.

‘I would have given’: ibid.

‘a much more favourable’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 427.

‘unproven’: ibid.

‘Investigation will continue’: PREM 11/4457.

‘We feel that the case’: ibid.

Chapter 12: The Robber Barons

‘To whom should a wife’s allegiance’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 311.

‘suspicious’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/474.

‘entirely innocent’: ibid.

‘Kim’s gone’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 311.

‘Thank God it’s you at last’: ibid.

‘insane’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 447.

‘disclosed very definitely’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/473.

‘loyal ex-colleague’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 186.

‘the poor man’s Surrey’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xx.

‘Philby was under constant watch’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 229.

‘Peach is apt to get blind drunk’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 433.

‘You must fight like hell’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 292.

‘The whole family went through’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 186.

‘whether he wished for’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/474.

‘C seemed to have reached’: ibid.

‘Philby would recover from’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 447.

‘the extent to which Peach’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 433.

‘of which he was governor’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 187.

‘the intense disagreement’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 430.

‘refused to let one of his chaps down’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 134.

‘In [Aileen’s] opinion’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 433.

‘was close enough to our house’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 186.

‘in the normal way’: Liddell, Diaries , TNA KV 4/474.

‘somewhat worried’: ibid.

‘worry that Petrov had brought’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 312.

‘had parted from his wife’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 430.

‘It will undermine Philby’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 152.

‘pursuing a vendetta against Philby’: ibid., p. 153.

desperately short of cash’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 228.

‘rendered us immense services’: ibid., p. 229.

‘a large sum of money’: ibid.

‘villainous Italian authorities’: ibid., p. 230.

‘vied with one another’: ibid., p. 231.

‘Excuse me’: ibid.

‘Tomorrow. 8pm. Angel.’: ibid.

‘a long stare’: ibid.

‘“Yes,” he said. “Yes. Yes.”’: ibid.

‘I was virtually certain’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 190.

‘the dark silhouette kept pace’: ibid., p. 232.

‘refreshed spirit’: ibid., p. 190.

‘Petrov knew nothing’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 430.

‘I was no longer alone’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 190.

‘It is the spy who has’: George Kennedy Young, circular written in 1950s, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kennedy_Young

‘Men’s minds are shaped’: ibid.

‘biased’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 430.

‘The Milmo Report’: PREM 11/4457.

‘victim of a miscarriage of justice’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 430.

‘Produce the evidence’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 156.

‘greatest defender’: Corera, MI6 , p. 72.

‘We are going to have’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 154.

‘I know you are the Third Man’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 433.

‘welcomed the chance’: ibid. p. 430.

‘who knew him well’: Wright, Spycatcher , p. 44.

‘To call it an interrogation’: ibid.

‘You may be pleased’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 315.

‘The trail had become’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 192.

‘livid’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 156.

‘belief that one of the questioners’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 430.

‘tipster’: TNA FO 953/2165.

‘The house at Crowborough’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 186.

Chapter 13: The Third Man

‘If pop music is going to be’: cited in Richard Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz, Popular Culture: A Reader (London, 2005), p. 368.

‘Has the Prime Minister’: House of Commons debate, 25 October 1955, Hansard , Volume 545, cc 28–9.

‘My name is in the newspapers’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 314.

‘might prejudice the case’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 192.

‘We’ve decided that you’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 314.

‘additional stress for Aileen’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 186.

‘absolutely convinced I had’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 322.

‘leaned heavily in favour’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 195.

‘Nothing would be worse’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 454.

‘Mr Philby had Communist’: Harold Macmillan, House of Commons debate, 7 November 1956, Hansard , Volume 545, cc 1483.

‘a man whose name has been smeared’: Richard Brooman-White, ibid.

‘He [Lipton] is in favour of acting’: ibid.

‘Whoever is covering up’: Frank Tomney, ibid.

‘I will not be gagged by anybody’: Marcus Lipton, ibid.

‘Even Mr Philby has not’: ibid.

‘Jesus Christ!’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 195.

‘Do come in’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 318.