A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Chapter 10: Homer’s Odyssey

‘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.

‘crude manners’: ibid.

‘a stiff drink’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 175.

‘My clear duty was to fight it out’: ibid.

‘There is no doubt’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘who would wish very much’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 176.

Chapter 11: Peach

‘rapier mind’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 113.

‘deeply subtle twists’: ibid.

‘How long will you be away’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 181.

‘a pleasant hour’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 181.

‘matters of mutual concern’: ibid.

‘major sensation’: TNA PREM 8/1524 (no. 1792).

‘highly professional, perceptive and accusatory’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 44.

‘Philby was a Soviet spy’: ibid.

a retrospective exercise in spite’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 185.

‘suffered severe concussion’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 53.

‘conviction’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 45.

‘without reference to Philby’: ibid.

‘the bottom line was’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 53.

‘he remained convinced’: Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 45.

‘held in high esteem’: ibid.

‘What is the rest’: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, p. 57.

‘apprehensive’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 182.

‘He did his best to put’: ibid.

‘might have views on the case’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘this horrible business’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 427.

‘There was no case against’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 438.

‘nondescript’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 127.

‘pure trade’: ibid., p. 124.

‘establishment’: ibid.

‘very sketchy’: ibid.

‘an indiscreet, disorganised’: ibid., p. 125.

‘Kim is extremely worried’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘wholly convincing’: ibid.

‘I dined with Anthony Blunt’: ibid.

‘hard to believe’: ibid.

‘Fire Philby or we break off’: Burton Hersh, The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA (New York, 1992), p. 321.

‘severely shaken’: TNA PREM 8/1524 (no. 1803).

‘clean house regardless’: ibid.

‘In the State Department’: ibid.

‘their wholehearted commitment’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 126.

‘While all the points’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘I’m in no particular hurry’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 126.

‘subsequently converted her’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘he himself had never’: ibid.

‘denied emphatically’: ibid.

‘nasty little question’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 183.

‘insatiable appetite for new’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 173.

‘guilty only of an unwise friendship’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 183.

‘the victim of unsubstantiated’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 127.

‘I’m no good to you now’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 217.

‘obvious distress’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 184.

‘not possibly be a traitor’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 439.

‘dedicated, loyal officer’: Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of Espionage (London, 2012), p. 401.

‘great black cloud’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 184.

‘He said that he had been’: ibid.

‘Personally I would be delighted’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 176.

‘I suppose he is not doing’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘in jest’: ibid.

‘it was already too late’: ibid.

‘The case against Philby’: ibid.

‘sticky’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 185.

‘judicial inquiry’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 427.

‘Hello Buster’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 297.

‘How would I know?’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 186.

‘Who was that young’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 298.

‘How could I not help her?’: ibid.

‘So far, he has admitted’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘It all became a shouting match’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 133.

‘The interrogation of Philby’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘I find myself unable’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 427.

‘There’s no hope’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 133.

‘Philby’s attitude throughout’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘had all the cards in his hands’: ibid.

‘Nicholas Elliott again referred’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 427.

‘counter-attacking’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘foremost exponent in the country’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 336.

‘manner verging on the exquisite’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 187.

‘two little traps’: ibid.

‘Nothing could have been more’: ibid.

‘remained open’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘hanging’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 187.

‘I would have given’: ibid.

‘a much more favourable’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 427.

‘unproven’: ibid.

‘Investigation will continue’: PREM 11/4457.

‘We feel that the case’: ibid.

Chapter 12: The Robber Barons

‘To whom should a wife’s allegiance’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 311.

‘suspicious’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/474.

‘entirely innocent’: ibid.

‘Kim’s gone’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 311.

‘Thank God it’s you at last’: ibid.

‘insane’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 447.

‘disclosed very definitely’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/473.

‘loyal ex-colleague’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 186.

‘the poor man’s Surrey’: Philby, My Silent War, p. xx.

‘Philby was under constant watch’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 229.

‘Peach is apt to get blind drunk’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 433.

‘You must fight like hell’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.

‘The whole family went through’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 186.

‘whether he wished for’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/474.

‘C seemed to have reached’: ibid.

‘Philby would recover from’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 447.

‘the extent to which Peach’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 433.

‘of which he was governor’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 187.

‘the intense disagreement’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 430.

‘refused to let one of his chaps down’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 134.

‘In [Aileen’s] opinion’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 433.

‘was close enough to our house’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 186.

‘in the normal way’: Liddell, Diaries, TNA KV 4/474.

‘somewhat worried’: ibid.

‘worry that Petrov had brought’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 312.

‘had parted from his wife’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 430.

‘It will undermine Philby’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 152.

‘pursuing a vendetta against Philby’: ibid., p. 153.

desperately short of cash’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 228.

‘rendered us immense services’: ibid., p. 229.

‘a large sum of money’: ibid.

‘villainous Italian authorities’: ibid., p. 230.

‘vied with one another’: ibid., p. 231.

‘Excuse me’: ibid.

‘Tomorrow. 8pm. Angel.’: ibid.

‘a long stare’: ibid.

‘“Yes,” he said. “Yes. Yes.”’: ibid.

‘I was virtually certain’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 190.

‘the dark silhouette kept pace’: ibid., p. 232.

‘refreshed spirit’: ibid., p. 190.

‘Petrov knew nothing’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 430.

‘I was no longer alone’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 190.

‘It is the spy who has’: George Kennedy Young, circular written in 1950s, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kennedy_Young

‘Men’s minds are shaped’: ibid.

‘biased’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 430.

‘The Milmo Report’: PREM 11/4457.

‘victim of a miscarriage of justice’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 430.

‘Produce the evidence’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 156.

‘greatest defender’: Corera, MI6, p. 72.

‘We are going to have’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 154.

‘I know you are the Third Man’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 433.

‘welcomed the chance’: ibid. p. 430.

‘who knew him well’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 44.

‘To call it an interrogation’: ibid.

‘You may be pleased’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 315.

‘The trail had become’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 192.

‘livid’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 156.

‘belief that one of the questioners’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 430.

‘tipster’: TNA FO 953/2165.

‘The house at Crowborough’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 186.

Chapter 13: The Third Man

‘If pop music is going to be’: cited in Richard Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz, Popular Culture: A Reader (London, 2005), p. 368.

‘Has the Prime Minister’: House of Commons debate, 25 October 1955, Hansard, Volume 545, cc 28–9.

‘My name is in the newspapers’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 314.

‘might prejudice the case’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 192.

‘We’ve decided that you’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 314.

‘additional stress for Aileen’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 186.

‘absolutely convinced I had’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 322.

‘leaned heavily in favour’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 195.

‘Nothing would be worse’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 454.

‘Mr Philby had Communist’: Harold Macmillan, House of Commons debate, 7 November 1956, Hansard, Volume 545, cc 1483.

‘a man whose name has been smeared’: Richard Brooman-White, ibid.

‘He [Lipton] is in favour of acting’: ibid.

‘Whoever is covering up’: Frank Tomney, ibid.

‘I will not be gagged by anybody’: Marcus Lipton, ibid.

‘Even Mr Philby has not’: ibid.

‘Jesus Christ!’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 195.

‘Do come in’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 318.

‘The efficiency of our security services’: the press conference can be viewed at youtube.com/watch?v=N2A2g-qRIaU

‘I see you understand the habits’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 319.

‘breathtaking’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 234.

‘Kim played his cards with’: ibid.

‘deeply regretted’: ‘Colonel Lipton Withdraws’, The Times, 11 November 1955.

‘My evidence was insubstantial’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, pp. 457–8.

‘Colonel Lipton has done’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 197.

‘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.

‘a charming woman’: ibid., p. 185.

‘grave mental problem’: ibid.

‘This, however, was not to be’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 211.

‘I want you to come and celebrate’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 29.

‘wonderful escape’: ibid.

‘a wonderful American girl’: ibid.

‘stunned’: ibid.

‘Clever wonderful you fly back’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 39.

‘I’ve come to tell you’: ibid.

‘That sounds like the best’: ibid.

‘Eleanor was in many ways’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 187.

‘We shall take a house’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 482.

‘ringside view’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 39.

‘He would sit in his terrace’: ibid.

‘leisurely daily circuit’: ibid., p. 52.

‘Kim treated the place like a club’: ibid., p. 51.

‘to see what the other journalists’: ibid.

‘connected with British intelligence’: ibid., p. 4.

‘He seemed to write’: ibid.

‘compelling a certain respect’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 491.

‘men whose ostensible jobs’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 294.

‘The information he supplied’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 234.

‘attracted much attention’: ibid.

‘There was criticism’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 480.

‘You could have read it all’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.

Chapter 15: The Fox who Came to Stay

‘but for his preference for operations’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 470.

‘I have no wish to be’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 162.

‘It was a most agreeable reunion’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.

‘excellent bouillabaisse’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 167.

‘Fill me in, old boy’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 3.

‘cool, high rooms’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 163.

‘perfect in every way’: ibid.

‘thought nostalgically of the gentle sound’: ibid.

‘two old friends in crown service’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 492.

‘European specialist and knew little’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 3.

‘Apart from all the political complexities’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 165.

‘his personal adviser’: Seale and McConville, Philby, pp. 295–6.

‘He was a thin, spare man’: ibid., p. 295.

‘put Kim to work’: ibid., p. 296.

‘serving two masters’: interview with former Economist correspondent.

‘mainly political and personality’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 492.

‘reports about political developments’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.

‘They used to meet once or twice’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 3.

‘Oh boy’: ibid., p. 52.

‘greater participation in the British’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 298.

‘keep an eye on Philby’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.

‘Elliott’s overt and innocent friendship’: ibid.

‘I had begun to feel that Kim’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 3.

‘broker a deal with the director’: Dorril, MI6, pp. 670–1.

‘In all he served us well’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 480.

‘He was one of the few adults’: interview with Mark Elliott, 17 October 2013.

‘ski in the mornings’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 166.

‘promised to look after it’: Lycett, Ian Fleming, p. 376.

‘an Armenian’: ibid.

‘arranged to see a pornographic film’: ibid.

‘at parties for British diplomats’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 292.

‘Out of fun rather than malice’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 184.

‘caused a chain reaction’: ibid.

‘It was at a cocktail party’: ibid.

‘He had no inhibitions’: ibid.

‘fierce martini’: ibid., p. 187.

‘recognised as the dominant’: Richard Helms, A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency (New York, 2003), p. 275.

‘and used those opportunities’: Trento, The Secret History of the CIA, p. 274. No documentary record of these contacts survives, which indicates that either they did not take place, or Angleton destroyed the evidence.

‘He travelled regularly’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 44.

‘whose brain was there’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 477.

‘all he had to do’: ibid., p. 478.

‘much too sophisticated’: ibid.

‘liked to talk to Philby’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 335.

‘Philby was friendly with all the Yanks’: George Young, quoted in Sunday Times, 15 May 1988.

‘The United States had to face’: Miles Copeland in George Lenczowski, American Presidents and the Middle East (Duke, 1990), p. 6.

‘known and liked’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 486.

‘better than anyone else’: Miles Copeland, Without Cloak or Dagger: The Truth About the New Espionage (New York, 1974), p. 146.

‘a humorous and highly intelligent’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 68.

‘Generous, outrageous, always fun’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 106.

‘one of the most indiscreet men’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 68.

‘I could trust him with any secret’: ibid.

‘keep an eye on Philby’: Copeland, Without Cloak or Dagger, p. 212.

‘report signs that he might’: ibid., p. 146.

‘still practising his old tradecraft’: ibid., p. 212.

‘entertaining and colourful invention’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 69.

‘a melodious voice’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 53.

‘lapping up’: ibid., p. 5.

‘She was affectionate’: ibid.

‘hopelessly endearing’: ibid.

‘happiest years’: ibid., p. 51.

Chapter 16: A Most Promising Officer

‘treated with the deference’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 46.

‘Elizabeth and I were among’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.

‘drew the old man out’: ibid.

‘memorable occasion’: ibid.

‘left at tea time’: ibid.

‘God, I’m bored’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 495.

‘a mixture of love and hate’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.

‘not completely well in the head’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 203.

‘If you feel strongly enough’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 188.

‘thunderstruck, but by no means disapproving’: Philby, My Silent War, p. 132.

‘went out of circulation’: ibid.

‘He drank himself senseless’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 47.

‘Kim seemed overwhelmed’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 33.

‘a most promising officer’: Roger Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake (London, 2013), p. 221.

‘A good-looking fellow’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 501.

‘it was the relentless bombing’: Ian Irvine, ‘George Blake: I Spy a British Traitor’, Independent, 1 October 2006.

‘I felt I was on the wrong side’: ibid.

‘He doesn’t belong in the service’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 261.

‘man of no class’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 56.

‘He was in love with her’: ibid., p. 61.

‘ninety per cent sure’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 263.

‘to London immediately’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 221.

‘whether Blake would like’: ibid.

‘In the course of conversation’: ibid., p. 222.

‘Moscow saw no cause for concern’: ibid.

‘would be more convenient’: ibid., p. 223.

‘For a moment a shadow’: ibid.

‘a few matters had cropped up’: ibid., p. 226.

‘I was in deep trouble’: ibid., p. 227.

‘It wasn’t hostile’: ibid.

‘No, nobody tortured me!’: ibid., p. 229.

‘The game was up’: ibid.

‘the biggest hammer possible’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 268.

‘The following name is a traitor’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 236.

‘It can happen to anyone’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 269.

‘Your case is one of the worst’: Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor, p. 250.

‘I went round to his flat’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, pp. 33–4.

‘Kim would become insulting’: ibid., p. 31.

‘not light-hearted about drink’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 5.

‘By the next day he was usually forgiven’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 31.

‘I know all about your Wednesday nights’: Seale and McConville, Philby, p. 301.

‘You know Moyra’: Beeston, Looking for Trouble, p. 32.

‘What would you do’: ibid.

‘something awful’: ibid.

‘What’s the matter?’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 5.

‘Kim seemed to give himself’: ibid., p. 6.

‘out of all proportion’: ibid.

‘shattered’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 187.

‘Apart from when his father died’: ibid.

‘the most valuable defector’: Caroline Rand Herron and Michael Wright, ‘A KGB defector who may not be’, New York Times, 2 February 1986.

‘very important spy network’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 435.

‘exhibited increasing signs’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 193.

‘Modin had gone to Beirut to alert Philby’: ibid.

‘a shadow of his former self’: Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, p. 236.

‘To warn Philby not to return’: Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (London, 1999), p. 440.

‘belly laughs’: interview with David Cornwell, 12 April 2012.

‘Of course he’s a traitor’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 293.

Chapter 17: I Thought it Would Be You

‘Russian soul, Jewish heart’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 229.

‘To anyone with eyes’: ibid., p. 225.

‘The thought occurred to me’: ibid.

‘dangerous work in hazardous’: London Gazette, 4 April 1944.

‘How is it the Observer uses’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.

‘very dangerous job for peace’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.

‘intuitive feeling that Harris’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.

‘the terrible way he treated’: Peter Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.

‘You must do something’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.

‘I will think about it’: ibid.

‘major breakthrough’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 172.

‘a strange, rather untrustworthy woman’: ibid., p. 173.

‘She clearly had a grudge’: ibid.

‘I will never give public evidence’: ibid.

‘It will leak, I know it will leak’: ibid.

‘Why didn’t she tell us’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 294.

‘I had not volunteered information’: Solomon and Litvinoff, Baku to Baker Street, p. 226.

‘how clubmanship and the old school tie’: ibid., p. 227.

‘far too wily’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 473.

‘We need to discover what damage’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 295.

‘should be treated as a gentleman’: ibid.

‘Keep a lid on things’: ibid., p. 294.

‘voluminous brief in preparation’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 173.

‘is the greatest dissembler’: John le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim (London, 1990), Part II.

‘happily have killed him’: interview with Mark Elliott, 11 November 2013.

‘there was more chance that Philby’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 296.

‘Philby’s greatest supporter’: ibid.

‘a proficient, clever and determined officer’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 505.

‘Elliott swore not to exceed his brief’: Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied For Russia (London, 1979), p. 436.

‘The few of us inside MI5’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 174.

‘We’d fully penetrated the KGB’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 296.

‘vertically intoxicated’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 7.

‘It was as if our flat’: ibid.

‘He only had to smell a drink’: ibid.

‘What is the matter’: ibid., p. 5.

‘very cold fish indeed’: ibid., p. 9.

‘He dragged us protesting’: ibid., p. 8.

‘already had a good deal’: ibid.

‘He was bleeding profusely’: ibid.

‘If we don’t get your husband’: ibid.

‘one more ounce of alcohol’: ibid., p. 9.

‘I was a bloody fool’: ibid.

‘prepared himself for a battle of wits’: Boyle, The Climate of Treason, p. 436.

‘I’ve got an awful task’: interview with Rozanne Colchester, 11 June 2013.

‘It was a terrible shock’: ibid.

‘he always laughed about things’: ibid.

‘Nicholas knew he had blood’: ibid.

‘in a casual voice’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 297.

‘a meeting between himself’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 474.

‘The minute that call’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 9.

‘I rather thought it would be you’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 297.

Chapter 18: Teatime

‘Perfectly tolerable …’: The dialogue between Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott is constructed from the following sources: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, pp. 297–8; Borovik, The Philby Files, pp. 3, 5, 344; Boyle, The Climate of Treason, pp. 436–7; and interviews with individuals familiar with the transcript of that conversation.

‘in-house’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 174.

‘He never once asked’: ibid., p. 194.

‘Everything’s OK’: Corera, MI6, p. 87.

‘The next twenty-four hours’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 299.

‘Okay, here’s the scoop’: ibid.

‘seen the error of his ways’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 436.

‘Is Nedosekin your contact?’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 299.

‘I’ve got no bloody contact’: ibid.

‘very bland document’: Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood, p. 507.

‘limited confession’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 436.

‘just a little stalling’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 217.

‘Our promise of immunity’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 345.

‘trying his manful best’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 194.

‘By the end’: ibid.

‘finally broken’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 299.

‘obscure hotel’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 6.

‘he did not want too many’: ibid.

‘this furtiveness was’: ibid.

‘as if nothing had intervened’: Boyle, The Climate of Treason, p. 438.

‘His greatest passion’: Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 6.

‘several names which alarmed’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 215.

‘Blunt was in the clear’: Wright, Spycatcher, p. 194.

‘claimed to know nothing’: ibid.

‘the debriefing would be a long affair’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 299.

‘knew about the KGB’: ibid.

‘It became clear to me’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 215.

‘might stand him in good stead’: ibid.

‘lifeline’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 298.

‘effusive in his gratitude’: ibid., p. 300.

‘He could have rejected’: ibid.

‘In our judgement’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 436.

‘What makes you think’: Pincher, Treachery, p. 476.

‘He might, I suppose’: Bower, The Perfect English Spy, p. 300.

‘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.

‘sad exiled life’: ibid., p. 189.

‘dreary people, a spying servant’: ibid.

‘wasted in a futile cause’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 99.

‘decided to betray’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 190.

‘He had charm to burn’: ibid., p. 189.

‘The whole thing was staged’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 215.

‘desire to spare SIS another spy scandal’: Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 323.

‘blissful peace’: ibid., p. 357.

‘How sleepless must be Kim Philby’s nights’: ibid., p. 373.

‘He’s a totally sad man’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 5.

‘like Glasgow on a Saturday night’: Tom Driberg, Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background (London, 1956), p. 100.

‘burdensome’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 235.

‘Any confession involves’: Rufina Philby, Mikhail Lyubimov and Hayden Peake, The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years (London, 1999), p. 257.

‘showed no interest’: Elliott, Umbrella, p. 185.

‘one of the better ones’: Knightley, The Master Spy, p. 257.

‘tireless struggle in the cause’: ibid., p. 260.

‘My lips have hitherto been sealed’: Elliott, My Little Eye, p. 95.

‘a tremendous fluttering’: ibid.

‘undistinguished, albeit mildly notorious’: ibid., p. 10.

‘I feel I have been’: ibid.