A Spy Among Friends (54 page)

 
‘party-goer’s image’: ibid.

 
‘This is the last time’: Charles Whiting,
Ghost Front: the Ardennes before the Battle of the Bulge
(London, 2002), pp. 203–4.

 
‘an operational disaster’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. 52.

 
‘virtually at will’: ibid., p. 63.

 
‘contacts with other SIS’: ibid.

 
‘fire-watching nights’: Graham Greene, foreword to Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xx.

 
‘bulging briefcase’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. 63.

 
‘longhand, in neat, tiny writing’: Sir Robert Mackenzie, interview with Phillip Knightley, 1967, quoted in Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 118.

‘MR NICHOLAS ELLIOTT’: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev,
The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives
(London, 1998), p. 311.

Chapter 3: Otto and Sonny

 
‘Something I owe’: Rudyard Kipling,
Kim
(London, 1994), Chapter 8.

 
‘penetration agent working’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxix.

 
‘the exquisite relish’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 291.

 
‘My ambition is fame’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 21.

 
‘constantly aware of his father’s’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 133.

 
‘He should always’: ibid., p. 134.

 
‘sudden conversion’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. xxx.

 
‘the inner fortress’: ibid., p. xxix.

 
‘I left the university’: ibid., p. xxxi.

 
‘I can hardly see him’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 183.

 
‘devote his life to the’: ibid.

 
‘at a crisis point’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 40.

 
‘tremendous little sexpot’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 159.

 
‘Actually quite warm’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
,
p. 168.

 
‘Even though the basis’: Genrikh Borovik, ed. Phillip Knightly,
The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby
(London, 1994), p. 22.

 
‘I do hope Kim gets a job’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 162.

 
‘Excess can always’: ibid., p. 137.

 
‘man of decisive importance’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
, p. 169.

 
‘man of considerable’: ibid.

 
‘He was a marvellous man’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
, p. 29.

 
‘important and interesting work’: ibid., p. 25.

 
‘I trusted him’: ibid., p. 27.

 
‘prophet of the better orgasm’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
, p. 170.

 
‘a poor man’s sexual performance’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
,
p. 163.

 
‘One does not look twice’: Philby,
My Silent War
, p. xxxii.

 
‘Of all the passions’: C. S. Lewis,
The Inner Ring
, Memorial Lecture at King’s College, University of London, in 1944, collected in
Mere Christianity
(London, 2012).

 
‘My future looked romantic’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 28.

 
‘By background, education’: ibid.

 
‘The anti-fascist movement’: ibid.

 
‘real and palpable way’: ibid.

 
‘like poetry’: ibid., p. 33.

 
‘We have recruited the son’: ibid., p. 39.

 
‘What are his prospects’: ibid., p. 40.

 
‘the most interesting’: ibid., p. 52.

 
‘refers to his parents’: ibid., p. 147.

 
‘his marvellous education’: ibid., p. 31.

 
‘the remoter open spaces’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxix.

 
‘His wife was his first lover’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 148.

 
‘I sometimes felt’: ibid., p. 33.

 
‘I was certain that my life’: ibid., p. 31.

 
‘constant encouragement’: ibid.

 
‘Söhnchen comes from’: ibid., p. 43.

 
‘It’s amazing that’: ibid., p. 55.

 
‘Once you’re inside’: ibid., p. 56.

 
‘He has many friends’: ibid., p. 43.

 
‘profoundly repulsive’: ibid., p. 59.

 
‘in the eyes of my friends’: ibid.

 
‘how difficult it is to leave’: ibid.

 
‘It seems unlikely that’: ibid., pp. 52–3.

 
‘The people I could’: ibid., p. 46.

 
‘very serious and aloof’: ibid., p. 44.

 
‘Sonny has high praise’: ibid.

 
‘Very smart’: ibid., p. 44.

 
‘Do you think that’: ibid., p. 48.

 
‘I lost my faith’: Elisabeth K. Poretsky,
Our Own People: A Memoir of ‘Ignace Reiss’ and His Friends
(Oxford, 1969), p. 214.

 
‘shiny grey complexion’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
,
p. 180.

 
‘an inspirational figure’: Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 194.

 
‘Both of them were intelligent’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 174.

 
‘handles our money’: ibid.

 
‘We have great difficulty’: ibid., p. 88.

 
‘unit strengths and locations’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 71.

 
‘a royalist of the most’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 111.

 
‘I would be lying’: ibid., pp. 111–12.

 
‘He works with great’: ibid., p. 129.

 
‘obviously been in the thick’: Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 260.

 
‘doing a very dangerous job’: ibid., p. 173.

 
‘important work for peace’: Solomon and Litvinoff,
Baku to Baker Street
,
p. 169.

 
‘he could always’: Wright,
Spycatcher
,
p. 173.

 
‘Even if he had been able’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 89.

 
‘They are very pleased’: ibid., p. 95.

 
‘a decent chap’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 56.

 
‘I know that as a former priest’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
, p. 183.

 
‘infinite patience’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxix.

 
‘intelligent understanding’: ibid.

 
‘painstaking advice’: ibid.

 
‘marvellous men’: Borovik,
The Philby Files
,
p. 29.

 
‘What’s going to happen’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 71.

 
‘activity in England’: Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
,
p. 185.

 
‘I had been told in pressing’: Philby,
My Silent War
,
p. xxviii.