Ben Macintyre - A Spy Among Friends

‘Nobody wanted him in London’: interview with David Cornwell, 11 October 2012.

‘It just didn’t dawn on us’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 301.

‘unsympathetic’: ibid.

Chapter 19: The Fade

‘Philby does not think he can escape again’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 301.

‘Your time has come’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 346.

‘They won’t leave you alone’: ibid.

‘had planted doubts in me’: ibid., p. 352.

‘Arrangements will take some time’: ibid., p. 347.

‘If you see me carrying’: ibid.

‘the question that interests’: ibid.

‘proved a helpful and friendly’: Glencairn Balfour Paul, Bagpipes in Babylon: A Lifetime in the Arab World and Beyond (London, 2006), p. 187.

‘Daddy’s going to be late’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 2.

‘cosy gathering’: ibid., p. 3.

‘God, what a horrible night’: ibid.

‘Don’t be silly’: ibid.

‘had nothing to say’: Clare Hollingworth, Front Line (London, 1990), p. 191.

‘Everything is fine’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 349.

‘a hastily summoned meeting about Kim’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 4.

‘Would you like me to come’: ibid.

‘His advice was to do nothing’: ibid.

‘terrible fear’: ibid.

‘last link with England’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 237.

‘Philby had vanished’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 94.

‘Tell my colleagues’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 18.

‘There is no question’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 189.

‘in circumstances calculated’: ibid.

‘You do realise that you’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 18.

‘choose a spot high up’: ibid., p. 19.

‘convinced that Kim had’: ibid., p. 12.

‘on no account to meet’: ibid., p. 21.

‘to test the system’: ibid.

‘Many people in the secret world’: Wright, Spycatcher , p. 174.

‘We should have sent a team’: ibid., p. 194.

‘But after lengthy interrogation’: ibid., p. 325.

‘He had been my boss’: Bristow, A Game of Moles , p. 229.

‘horror’: ibid.

‘I never thought he would accept’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy , p. 304.

‘What a shame we reopened’: ibid.

‘disappointed’: ibid.

‘I tried to repair the damage’: ibid., p. 305.

‘face the awful truth’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 45.

‘I had them burned’: ibid., p. 46.

‘He was an unforgivable traitor’: Balfour Paul, Bagpipes in Babylon , p. 187.

‘dumbfounded’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 487.

‘unbelievable’: ibid., p. 488.

‘He was the best actor’: ibid.

‘What Philby provided’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 125.

‘Since Mr Philby resigned’: Edward Heath (Lord Privy Seal), House of Commons debate, 1 July 1963, Hansard , Volume 680, cc 33–5.

‘Hello, Mr Philby’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 527.

‘Philby was allowed to escape’: Bristow, A Game of Moles , p. 281.

‘To my mind the whole business’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 238.

‘the secret service had actively’: ibid.

‘I knew exactly how to handle it’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 217.

‘spiriting Philby out of the Lebanon’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 236.

‘a mistake, simple stupidity’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 323.

‘Burgess was a bit of an embarrassment’: Knightley, The Master Spy , pp. 222–3.

‘unmistakably Russian’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 22.

‘I’m from Kim’: ibid.

‘Kim was an active communist’: ibid., p. 56.

‘surprising tenderness’: ibid.

‘We have definitely known’: ibid.

‘the victim of a prolonged’: ibid., p. xiii.

‘All I am thinking of now’: ibid., p. 59.

‘I don’t know what’: ibid., p. 64.

‘Buy yourself some very warm clothes’: ibid., p. 66.

‘What would you do’: ibid., p. 63.

‘she finally admitted’: ibid.

‘passionate loyalty and devotion’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 182.

‘Although I had put the fear of God’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 94.

‘Eleanor, is that you?’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 69.

‘Dear Nick’: undated letter from Kim Philby to Nicholas Elliott, Cleveland Cram collection, Georgetown University Library, Washington DC.

‘It was ridiculous to suppose’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 95.

‘an incredibly clumsy piece’: ibid.

‘many hours of discussion’: ibid.

‘because first’: ibid.

‘tragic episode’: ibid., p. 97.

‘Put some flowers for me’: ibid., p. 98.

Chapter 20: Three Old Spies

‘elite’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxxii.

‘He never revealed’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends , p. 270.

‘Englishman to his fingertips’: ibid.

‘homeland’: Borovik, The Philby Files , p. 373.

‘belonged’: Murray Sayle, ‘London-Moscow: The Spies are Jousting’, Sunday Times , 6 January 1968.

‘wholly and irreversibly English’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 527.

‘Aluminium bats, white balls’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 239.

‘the ghastly din’: ibid., p. 253.

‘hooligans inflamed’: ibid.

‘What is more important’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 78.

The party, of course’: ibid.

‘stayed the course’: Philby, My Silent War , p. xxxi.

‘If you only knew what hell’: Balfour Paul, Bagpipes in Babylon , p. 186.

‘Friendship is the most important thing’: ibid.

‘painful to think that during’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 488.

‘I wasn’t laughing at them’: Knightley, The Master Spy , p. 254.

‘It had travelled with him’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 189.

‘supreme example of schizophrenia’: ibid.

‘He betrayed many people’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved , p. 175.

‘No one can ever really know’: ibid., p. xiv.

‘The emotional wreckage’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 206.

‘Jim just continued to think’: Mangold, Cold Warrior , p. 48.

Never again would he permit’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors , p. 193.

‘This is all Kim’s work’: Holzman, James Jesus Angleton , p. 207.

‘He had trusted him’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 81.

‘I don’t know that the damage’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors , p. 193.

‘come clean in the Philby case’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood , p. 565.

‘To be in administration’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 179.

‘Rather to my surprise’: ibid., p. 192.

‘a modern Cecil Rhodes’: ibid., p. 191.

‘the Harry Lime of Cheapside’: ibid., p. 192.

‘incapable of leading that kind of life’: ibid., p. 195.

‘gift for dowsing’: ibid.

‘alternative to involvement’: Elliott, My Little Eye , p. 65.

‘showing a quite unjustified lack’: ibid., p. 109.

‘extremely well over an extended period’: Elliott, Umbrella , p. 182.

‘I have naturally given thought’: ibid.

‘Outwardly he was a kindly man’: ibid., p. 183.

‘a façade, in a schizophrenic personality’: ibid., p. 190.