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Authors: Ben Macintyre
‘The sky was the limit’: Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley,
Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation
(London, 1968), p. 211.
‘the driving force’: ibid.
‘I got a few nibbles’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 132.
‘It was the belief’: ibid.
‘habit’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 151.
‘He demonstrated regularly’: ibid.
‘Our close association’: ibid.
‘used to pride himself’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
p. 47.
‘Our discussions ranged’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 151.
‘Both CIA and SIS’: ibid., p. 152.
‘Many of Harvey’s lobsters’: ibid.
‘During those long, boozy lunches’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
pp. 46–7.
‘Everything was written up’: ibid., p. 44.
‘chaotic’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 420.
‘We’ll get it right next time’: Corera,
MI6
, p. 67.
‘We had agents parachuting in’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
p. 47.
‘the timing and geographical’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p.159.
‘I do not know what happened’: ibid.
‘We knew that they would’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 137.
‘The boys in London imagined’: ibid., p. 146.
‘tied to the back of a Jeep’: ibid., p. 150.
‘Our famous radio game’: Corera,
MI6
, p. 62.
‘It was obvious there was’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 104.
‘Our security was very’: Corera,
MI6
, p. 63.
‘well and truly blown’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 105.
‘Albania would fall from the Soviet’: Nicholas Bethell, ‘Profits and Losses of Treachery’,
Independent
, 6 September 1994.
‘There is little question’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 212.
‘He gave us vital information’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 123.
‘The agents we sent into Albania’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 128.
‘gave Philby over drinks’: Corera,
MI6,
p. 65.
‘Jim and Kim were very fond’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, p. 43.
‘After a year of keeping up’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 151.
‘If you have a lot of money’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 264.
‘The more visitors I had’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 146.
‘valuable agent network’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 376.
‘particularly important’: ibid.
‘Philby was looking on’: ibid., p. 378.
‘genuine mental block’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 167.
‘before the net closed in’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 423.
‘He clearly feels’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/472.
‘give us more time’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 379.
‘parental pride in being’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 187.
‘I have a shock for you’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 126.
‘for a few days’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 416.
‘I know him only too well’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 165.
‘I do not think that’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 422.
‘was not the sort of person’: ibid.
‘eccentricities’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 166.
‘What does he mean
worse
’: ibid.
‘Knowing the trouble’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 186.
‘The inevitable drunken scenes’: ibid.
‘keep an eye’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 166.
‘secure line of communication to Moscow’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 423.
‘the most outstanding historian’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 419.
‘the cheapest bourbon’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 53.
‘a peculiar garb’: ibid.
‘for fantastic profits’: ibid.
‘a bloated alcoholic’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 88.
‘What Freudian impulse’: ibid., p. 121.
‘beastily distorted’: ibid.
‘How could you?’: ibid.
‘a social disaster’: Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
, p. 53.
‘handsome’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 184.
‘Forget it’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 168.
‘Don’t you go too’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 171.
‘There’s serious trouble’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 200.
‘Donald’s now in such a state’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 424.
‘We agree to your organizing’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 201.
‘no predisposition to be a spy’: ibid., p. 22.
‘men who are too short’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 335.
‘at Victoria, MI5’s men’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 207.
‘Back on Monday!’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 430.
‘Don’t go with him’: Modin,
My Five Cambridge Friends
, p. 204.
‘The Centre had concluded’: ibid.
‘It just happened’: Bower,
The Perfect English Spy
, p. 109.
‘even in Strasbourg’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 156.
‘It seems a pity the Foreign Office’: ibid.
,
p. 46.
‘at all costs and by all means’: Press Association, News Report, 7 July 1951, paimages.co.uk/preview/?urn=2.7587460
‘6’3’, normal build’: ibid.
‘decanter of poisoned Scotch’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 430.
‘Kim’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 172.
‘lack of discipline’: Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 426.