A Spy Among Friends (62 page)

 
‘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.