A Spy Among Friends (55 page)

 
‘Where is the Café’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 143.

 
‘extraordinarily valuable’: ibid., p. 151

‘the appropriate hands’: ibid...the appropriate hands’: ibid..

Chapter 4: Boo, Boo, Baby, I’m a Spy

 
‘true sense of values’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 178.

 
‘His intellectual equipment’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 109.

 
‘an utter shit’: cited in Anthony Read and David Fisher,
Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies
(London, 1985), p. 361.

 
‘Vivian was long past’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 48.

 
‘He would murmur’: ibid., p. 69.

 
‘But behind the façade’: ibid.

 
‘The rewards of such unorthodoxy’: ibid., p. 70.

 
‘the only man in The Hotel’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 205.

 
‘golden lads’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 470.

 
‘You know as well as I do’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 490.

 
‘in the hurly-burly’: Guy Liddell,
Diaries
, KV4/466.

 
‘a pleasant personality’: ibid.

 
‘For every lead that produced’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 48.

 
‘monstrous’: ibid.

 
‘a model of economy’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 183.

 
‘I had the advantage’: ibid., p. 110.

 
‘an interesting and promising’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 167.

 
‘especially valuable’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 64.

 
‘few social graces’: West and Tsarev,
The Crown Jewels
, p. 312.

 
‘inclined towards inertia’: ibid.

 
‘weakness [for] women’: ibid.

 
‘the weak link’: ibid., p. 313.

 
‘fat briefcase’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 48.

 
‘Her political views’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 208.

 
‘difficult, exhausting’: ibid., p. 28.

 
‘twinges of panic’: ibid., p. 203.

 
‘a young Englishman’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
,
p. 267.

 
‘We told him he must’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 202.

 
‘About 58, 5 feet 6 inches’: West and Tsarev,
The Crown Jewels
, p. 298.

 
‘There aren’t any’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. xii.

 
‘tenth on the list’: ibid., p. 167.

 
‘no Soviet citizens’: ibid., p. 210.

 
‘obvious absurdity’: ibid., p. 201.

 
‘highly suspicious’: ibid., p. 200.

 
‘dubious’: ibid., p. 196.

 
‘tested and retested’: ibid., p. 204.

 
‘upside down’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 61.

 
‘to discuss the mystery’: ibid.

 
‘far outside the normal scope’: ibid.

 
‘another flood’: ibid.

 
‘Luck played an enormous’: ibid., p. 128.

 
‘cloistered’: ibid., p. 72.

 
‘those who sit at desks’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 15.

 
‘anxious to get away’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 111.

 
‘All foreigners are bloody’: ibid., p. 16.

 
‘I was delighted’: ibid., p. 111.

 
‘who was being sent’: ibid., p. 112.

 
‘well-stocked bar’: ibid.

 
‘the tattiest army officer’: ibid., p. 113.

 
‘the shortage of contraceptives’: ibid.

 
‘managed to alleviate’: ibid.

 
‘roving brothel’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 78.

 
‘two lonely Germans’: ibid.

 
‘delight’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 117.

 
‘pained tolerance’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 418.

 
‘great ability and energy’: ibid., p. 419.

 
‘one of the great espionage’: ibid., p. 417.

 
‘Everyone was well informed’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 122.

 
‘I’m involved in a dangerous game’: Barry Rubin,
Istanbul Intrigues
(New York, 1989), p. xvii.

 
‘not a kid glove affair’: Jeffery,
MI6
,
p. 420.

 
‘crammed from top’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 120.

 
‘extremely erudite’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 73.

 
‘Its clientele’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 122.

 
‘white coloured skin’: ibid.

 
‘a ferocious dry martini’: ibid., p. 123.

 
‘spoke excellent English’: ibid.

 
‘the capacity for friendship’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 15.

 
‘A large amount’: ibid.

 
‘One particularly remarkable man’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 117.

 
‘a most unattractive’: ibid., p. 130.

 
‘operating a clandestine’: ibid.

 
‘was not altogether’: ibid.

 
‘more people involved’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 50.

 
‘All were kept under’: ibid., p. 51.

 
‘schoolboyish’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 109.

 
‘Bars, beards and blondes’: ibid.

 
‘the worst claret’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 177.

 
‘After three of Ellie’s’: ibid., p. 123.

‘hoping he didn’t mind’: ibid. p.126.

Chapter 5: Three Young Spies

‘two minutes from MI5’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 71.

 
‘the frowsty old’: Malcolm Muggeridge, book review of
A Very Limited Edition
,
Esquire
, May 1966, p. 84.

 
‘a notably bewildered’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 74.

 
‘a bunch of amateur bums’: ibid., p. 75.

 
‘They lost no opportunity’: ibid., p. 74.

 
‘pain in the neck’: ibid., p. 76.

 
‘formative years’: Tom Mangold,
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton – CIA’s Master Spy Hunter
(London, 1991), p. 13.

 
‘more English than’: ibid., p. 12.

 
‘a mysterious person’: ibid., p. 13.

 
‘What a miracle’: Michael Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence
(Boston, 2008), p. 83.

 
‘arts and crafts’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 298.

 
‘I do remember’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 49.