Ben Macintyre - A Spy Among Friends

‘The efficiency of our security services’: the press conference can be viewed at youtube.com/watch?v=N2A2g-qRIaU

‘I see you understand the habits’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 319.

‘breathtaking’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 234.

‘Kim played his cards with’: ibid.

‘deeply regretted’: ‘Colonel Lipton Withdraws’, The Times , 11 November 1955.

‘My evidence was insubstantial’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , pp. 457–8.

‘Colonel Lipton has done’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 197.

‘overjoyed’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 234.

‘seek his reemployment’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 158.

‘further service to the Soviet cause’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 198.

‘frogmen had popped up’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 24.

‘a matter of high intelligence priority’: ibid.

‘We wanted a closer look’: ibid.

‘undaunted devotion to duty’: ibid.

‘a most engaging man’: ibid.

‘kindly bantam cock’: Rob Hoole, ‘The Buster Crabb Enigma’, Warship World , January 2007.

‘to get m’ feet wet again’: Marshall Pugh, Commander Crabb (London, 1956), p. 156.

‘supplies of whisky’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 25.

‘heading for a heart attack’: Wright, Spycatcher , p. 74.

‘Crabb was still the most experienced’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 25.

‘The dicey operations’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 159.

‘These ships are our guests’: Pincher, Treachery , p. 417.

‘We don’t have a chain’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 160.

‘I am sorry, but we cannot’: Don Hale, The Final Dive: The Life and Death of Buster Crabb (London, 2007), p. 172.

‘operation was mounted’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 24.

‘working holiday’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 460.

‘attached Foreign Office’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 160.

‘down to take a dekko’: see BBC, On This Day , news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/9/newsid_4741000/4741060.stm

‘an extra pound of weight’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 24.

‘A tip-off from a British spy’: Corera, MI6 , p. 78.

‘There will be blood’: Wright, Spycatcher , p. 74.

‘We’ll all be for the pavilion’: ibid., p. 75.

‘specially employed in connection’: Hale, The Final Dive , p. 176.

‘presumed drowned’: ibid.

‘I’m afraid it rather’: Wright, Spycatcher , p. 74.

‘missing or lost property’: Hale, The Final Dive , p. 172.

‘in trouble’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 24.

‘he hoped he was all right’: ibid.

‘such an unusual occurrence’: Hale, The Final Dive , p. 183.

‘regret about this incident’: ibid., p. 188.

‘completely unauthorized’: ibid.

‘paid no attention’: ibid., p. 183.

‘it can only be assumed’: ibid.

‘It would not be’: ibid., p. 184.

‘a shameful operation’: ibid., p. 191.

‘misconceived and inept operation’: Pincher, Treachery , p. 421.

‘Ridiculous’: Francis Elliott, ‘Cold War Papers Reveal Lost Diver’s Last Minutes’, Independent on Sunday , 11 June 2006.

‘a typical piece of MI6 adventurism’: Wright, Spycatcher , p. 73.

‘We’re still cloak and dagger’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 165.

‘one man Bay of Pigs’: ibid., p. 312.

‘A storm in a teacup’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 25.

‘Crabb was both brave and patriotic’: ibid.

‘He almost certainly died’: ibid.

‘come down to the firm’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 321.

‘Something unpleasant again’: ibid.

Chapter 14: Our Man in Beirut

‘In those days SIS kept in touch’: Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming (London, 1996), p. 170.

‘Kemsley Press allowed’: ibid., p. 169.

‘doing secret service stuff’: ibid.

‘being re-engaged for reasons’: Seale and McConville, Philby , p. 284.

‘The country could ill afford’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 470.

‘I simply approved them’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 199.

‘no appetite for reopening old wounds’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 289.

‘irritated that Elliott’: ibid., p. 292.

‘no emotion’: ibid.

‘unaware’: ibid., p. 235.

‘horrified if he knew’: ibid.

‘It was Nicholas Elliott’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 206.

‘had an ersatz gaiety’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 157.

‘The climate of Vienna’: ibid.

‘Haunted by Kim’s life of treason’: Richard Beeston , Looking for Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent (London, 2006), p. 29.

‘she maintained in the hope’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street , p. 211.

‘Lebanon was the only Arab country’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble , p. 28.

‘He was quintessentially English’: ibid., p. 29.

‘rangy, steady-drinking American’: ibid.

‘If I should meet Kim’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved (London, 1968), p. 28.

‘What touched me first’: ibid.

‘Kim was a delightful companion’: ibid., p. 30.

‘My soufflés were never’: ibid.

‘sound knowledge of’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 199.

‘telling the British government’: ibid.

‘as conscientiously as possible’: ibid.

‘Petukhov, Soviet Trade Mission’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 331.

‘I read your articles in the Observer ’: ibid.

‘total commitment’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxxi.

‘I stayed the course’: ibid.

‘influenced and modified’: ibid.

‘a hive of activity’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 234.

‘the intentions of the United States’: Philby, My Silent War , p. 199.

‘idleness’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 466.

‘No receipts, no money’: ibid.

‘helpful eye’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street , p. 210.

‘poor Aileen …’: ibid., p. 211.

‘might have been murdered’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm , p. 433.

‘considerable strength of character’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 182.

‘a charming woman’: ibid., p. 185.

‘grave mental problem’: ibid.

‘This, however, was not to be’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street , p. 211.

‘I want you to come and celebrate’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble , p. 29.

‘wonderful escape’: ibid.

‘a wonderful American girl’: ibid.

‘stunned’: ibid.

‘Clever wonderful you fly back’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 39.

‘I’ve come to tell you’: ibid.

‘That sounds like the best’: ibid.

‘Eleanor was in many ways’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 187.

‘We shall take a house’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 482.

‘ringside view’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 39.

‘He would sit in his terrace’: ibid.

‘leisurely daily circuit’: ibid., p. 52.

‘Kim treated the place like a club’: ibid., p. 51.

‘to see what the other journalists’: ibid.

‘connected with British intelligence’: ibid., p. 4.

‘He seemed to write’: ibid.