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‘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.

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