A Spy Among Friends (53 page)

 
‘The next moment’: Sigismund Payne Best,
The Venlo Incident
(London, 1950), p. 17.

 
‘At one stroke’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 103.

 
‘able to construct’: ibid.

 
‘intense ambition’: ibid.

 
‘possibility of winning’: ibid.

 
‘In the long run’: arcre.com/archive/sis/venlo

 
‘selling everything to Moscow’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 262.

 
‘as disastrous as it was’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 103.

 
‘Oh what a tangled web’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 11.

 
‘Information has been’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 106.

 
‘It soon became apparent’: ibid.

 
‘We’re in the final’: ibid., p. 109.

 
‘normality and calmness’: ibid.

 
‘never occurred to me’: ibid.

 
‘England was gripped’: ibid., p. 111.

 
‘give evidence of what’: ibid.

 
‘feeling of camaraderie’: ibid., p. 110.

 
‘My only moment’: ibid.

 
‘Basil Fisher was killed’: ibid.

Chapter 2: Section V

 
‘He was the sort of man’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Phillip Knightley,
The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby
(London, 1988), p. 119.

 
‘halting stammered witticisms’: Graham Greene, foreword to Kim Philby,
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
(London, 1968), p. xx.

 
‘great pluck’: E. G. de Caux to Ralph Deakin, 14 January 1938,
The Times
Archives.

 
‘Many express disappointment’:
The Times
, 17 November 1939.

 
‘Camel-hair overcoat’: expenses claim letter,
The Times
Archives.

 
‘dropped a few hints’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxviii.

 
‘A person like you’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 79.

 
‘We’ll figure something’: ibid.

 
‘war work’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 9.

 
‘intensely likeable’: ibid.

 
‘I began to show off’: ibid., p. 10.

 
‘nothing recorded against’: ibid.

 
‘I was asked about him’: Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville,
Philby: The Long Road to Moscow
(London, 1973), p. 135.

 
‘set Europe ablaze’: Hugh Dalton,
The Fateful Years: Memoirs, 1931–1945
(London, 1957), p. 366.

 
‘I escaped to London’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 63.

 
‘In those days’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 111.

 
‘He had an ability’: ibid., p. 183.

 
‘the inherent evil’: ibid., p. 105.

 
‘very rarely discussed’: ibid., p. 183.

 
‘the English batting’: ibid.

 
‘Indeed he did not strike me’: ibid.

 
‘pose of amiable’: Hugh R. Trevor-Roper,
The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason, and Secret Services
(London, 1968), p. 42.

 
‘by and large pretty stupid’: Christopher Andrew,
Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community
(London, 1985), p. 249.

 
‘An exceptional person’: ibid.

 
‘clarity of mind’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 183.

 
‘He was much more’: ibid.

 
‘The old Secret Service’: Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time
, vol. II (London, 1973), p. 136.

 
‘slouching about in sweaters’: ibid.

 
‘You’d drop in to see’: Kim Philby, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1988, in Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 84.

 
‘atmosphere of
haute cuisine
’: Philby,
My Silent
War, p. 35.

 
‘out of fun rather’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 184.

 
‘To start with we always’: Dennis Wheatley,
The Deception Planners: My Secret War
(London, 1980), p. 30.  

 
‘for an hour’: ibid.

 
‘He was a formidable’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 183.

 
‘serious drinkers should never’: ibid.

 
‘violent headache’: ibid.

 
‘It was an organisation’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 22.

 
They spoke the same language’: interview with Mark Elliott, 11 November 2013.

 
‘negate, confuse, deceive’: Leo D. Carl,
The International Dictionary of Intelligence
(McLean Virginia, 1990), p. 83.

 
‘with a knowledge of Spain’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 35.

 
‘The Old Boy network’: ibid., p. 37.

 
‘purblind, disastrous’: Trevor-Roper,
The Philby Affair
, p. 37.

 
‘As an intelligence officer’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 46.

 
‘suspicious and bristling’: ibid.

 
‘personal contacts with’: ibid., p. 43.

 
‘He was a bit of a communist’: Seale and McConville,
Philby
,
p. 135.

 
‘active pursuit and liquidation’: Anthony Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood: H. St John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century
(London, 1995), p. 276.

 
‘Aileen belonged to that class’: Flora Solomon and Barnet Litvinoff,
Baku to Baker Street: The Memoirs of Flora Solomon
(London, 1984), p. 172.

 
‘He found an avid listener’: ibid.

 
‘She was highly intelligent’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 182.

 
‘parental pride’: ibid., p. 187.

 
‘long Sunday lunches’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby,
My Silent War
, p. xx.

 
‘small loyalties’: ibid.

 
‘He had something about him’: Seale and McConville,
Philby
, p. 133.

 
‘merry band’: Desmond Bristow with Bill Bristow,
A Game of Moles: The Deceptions of an MI6 Officer
(London, 1993), p. 17.

 
‘a purchaser of skunk excrement’: ibid., p. 18.

 
‘The sense of dedication’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 276.

 
‘No one could have’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby,
My Silent War
, p. xix.

 
‘a gentle-looking man’: Bristow,
A Game of Moles
, pp. 262–3.

 
‘cosiness’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 63.

 
‘It was not difficult’: ibid.

 
‘a good cricket umpire’: Felix Cowgill, interview with Anthony Cave Brown, 1983, in Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 275.

 
‘calculating ambition’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 119.

 
‘single-mindedness’: ibid.

 
‘There was something’: Hugh Trevor-Roper, interview by Graham Turner,
Daily Telegraph
, 28 January 2003.

 
‘It was not long’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 53.

 
‘to good use in disrupting’: ibid., p. 55.

 
‘mingle with the crowd’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 387.