A Spy Among Friends (46 page)

Yuri Modin, the subtle and ingenious handler of the Cambridge spy network.

Igor Gouzenko, masked, awaiting interviews with the press after his defection in 1945.

Dick White, a former schoolmaster, was the chief of MI5 counterintelligence in 1951.

C: Sir Stewart Menzies, the wartime head of MI6.

Felix Cowgill, chief of Section V, the MI6 counter-intelligence unit based in St Albans.

Guy Liddell: MI5 head of counter-intelligence and diarist.

Victor Rothschild, MI5 head of counter-sabotage and friend of Kim Philby.

Valentine Vivian, known as Vee-Vee, the Deputy Chief of MI6 who vouched for Philby: ‘I knew his people.’

Sarah Algeria Marjorie Maxse, organisation officer for the Conservative Party and recruiter for MI6. Philby found her ‘intensely likeable’.

Hester Harriet Marsden-Smedley, the
Sunday Express
war correspondent who steered Philby into MI6.

Elizabeth Holberton, Nicholas Elliott’s MI6 secretary, confidante and finally wife.

The Elliotts on their wedding day, outside the Park Hotel, Istanbul, 10 April 1943.