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‘The guy was just’: ibid.

 
‘Secret Documents of Vatican Diplomacy’:
Catholic Herald
, ‘Author of “Secret Documents” Sentenced’, 30 July 1948.

 
‘how vulnerable even’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 50.

 
‘the Byzantine possibilities’: ibid.

 
‘crawling around on his hands’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, p. 21.

 
‘His real love was unravelling’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 81.

 
‘We were … damned good friends’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 71.

 
‘Stanley reported that’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 241.

 
‘What a very nice chap’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 367.

 
‘happy ending’: Solomon and Litvinoff,
Baku to Baker Street
,
p. 210.

 
‘Kim, a happy and devoted father’: ibid.

 
‘seemed to belong to the misty, juvenile past’: ibid., p. 172.

 
‘Awkward of her gestures’: ibid., p. 169.

 
‘incapable of disloyalty’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 208.

 
‘all round experience’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 142.

 
‘profoundly sorry’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/468.

 
‘main southern base’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 130.

 
‘Kim gave a large farewell party’: Liddell,
Diaries
, TNA KV 4/468.

 
‘given permission to play’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 382.

 
‘a white Russian’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 133.

 
‘a fairly free hand’: ibid.

 
‘start weaving a spy network’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 251.

 
‘energetic enthusiast’: Dorril,
MI6
,
p.
210.

 
‘We knew in advance’: ibid., p. 212.

 
‘the very mechanism through’: Holzman,
James Jesus Angleton
, p. 91.  

 
‘He was totally consumed’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
,
p. 23.

 
‘We rediscovered each other’: ibid.

 
‘I’ve got sitting in my Jeep’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 384.

 
‘He was both efficient and safe’: ibid., p. 380.

 
‘willing to back them’: Dorril,
MI6
, p.
211.

 
‘energetic lads’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 252.

 
‘tip-and-run’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 140.

 
‘alert and intelligent’: ibid., p. 143.

 
‘notably subdued’: ibid.

 
‘It was essential’: ibid.

 
‘striding through a sparse wood’: ibid.

 
‘The boys weren’t bad’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 252.

 
‘in chains’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 185.

 
‘dying of some mysterious ailment’: ibid., p. 185.

 
‘charming woman and loving wife’: ibid.

 
‘It was an intense affront’: ibid.

 
‘the marriage steadily deteriorated’: ibid.

 
‘It was James Jesus Angleton’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 386.

 
‘At one stroke’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 145.

 
‘unlimited possibilities’: ibid.

 
‘Who am I supposed to work’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 257.

 
‘I was lunched at many’:
My Silent War
,
p. 146.

 
‘One side is open’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 261.

 
‘chain reaction that would’: Nicholas Bethell,
The Great Betrayal: The Untold Story of Kim Philby’s Greatest Coup
(London, 1978), p. 41.

‘formal British and American’: ibid., p. 57.

 

Chapter 9: Stormy Seas

 

‘There was no question’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 56.

 
‘all absolutely stark naked’: David de Crespigny Smiley, Interview No. 10340, Imperial War Museum, London, 1988.

 
‘We were looking only’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 56.

 
‘that the communists’: ibid., p. 83.

 
‘Brothers, you’re all going to be killed!’: ibid.

 
‘fascist terrorists’: ibid.

 
‘memorable send-off’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 148.

 
‘a private club afloat’: http://cruiselinehistory.com

 
‘disgustingly rich friend’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 148.

 
‘I began to feel that’: ibid.

 
‘one of the few glories’: ibid., p. 149.

 
‘admired him as a “professional”’: Gordon Corera,
MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service
(London, 2012), p. 64.  

 
‘I was brought up in England’: Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, p. 13.

 
‘Things have gone wrong’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 84.

 
‘Who are you?’: ibid., p. 87.

 
‘We said we were’: ibid., p. 141.

 
‘The sun has risen’: ibid., p. 142.

 
‘several Albanian civilians’: ibid., p. 110.

 
‘disappointing’: ibid., p. 96.

 
‘judged by wartime standards to be acceptable’: Dorril,
MI6
,
p.
389.

 
‘it would be wrong to abandon’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 97.

 
‘was the one who made’: Dorril,
MI6
,
p.
385.

 
‘Philby was a great charmer’: Corera,
MI6
, p. 64.

 
‘He had charm’: James McCargar, writing as Christopher Felix, ‘A Second Third Man’,
New York Times Book Review
, 26 May 1968.

 
‘undoubtedly devoted to his children’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 187.

 
‘by any objective standard, a dreadful man’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 162.

 
‘a former FBI man … sacked for drunkenness’: ibid., p. 152.

 
‘a cold, fishy eye’: ibid., p. 180.

 
‘bumbling’: ibid., p. 164.

 
‘puddingy’: ibid.

 
‘He entertained a lot of Americans’: Bethell,
The Great Betrayal
, p. 101.

 
‘They were long’:
The Cost of Treachery
, BBC TV, 30 October 1984.

 
‘suggestive of complicity’: James McCargar, writing as Christopher Felix, ‘A Second Third Man’.

 
‘suggest drifting out’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 155.

 
‘Intelligence officers talk trade’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 399.

 
‘please one party’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 150.

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