A Spy Among Friends (64 page)

 
‘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.