p. 59 “good-looking and Liberal”—ibid.
p. 59 “wild and warm”—Mount, Cold Cream p. 47
p. 59 “to my fury”—Toynbee diary 20.12.35, papers of Philip Toynbee, Bodleian Library, Oxford
p. 59 “possibility of happiness”—ibid. 14.4.35
p. 59 “I didn’t argue”—ibid. 21.7.36
p. 59 “the ruling classes”—Philip Toynbee, “Maclean and I,” Observer 15.10.67
p. 60 “poor bugger”—Toynbee diary 21.7.36
p. 60 “sophisticated good humour”—Toynbee, “Maclean and I” op. cit.
p. 60 coming up at all—Page, Knightley and Leitch op. cit. p. 82
p. 60 “master-class in mendacity”—Macintyre op. cit. p. 190
p. 61 “than the oppressed”—Connolly op. cit. p. 19
p. 61 “for Soviet Russia”—quoted Newton op. cit. p. 64
p. 61 “a boring companion”—conversation quoted Boyle op. cit. p. 127
p. 61 “of his parents”—TNA KV 2/4157
p. 61 “the Liberal Party”—interview Viscountess Macmillan
p. 61 “at the same time”—A. Maclean op. cit. pp. 18–19
p. 62 “Soviet special service”—Cave Brown op. cit. p. 171
p. 62 “to London prostitutes”—Carter op. cit. p. 161
p. 63 “had gone down”—Hobsbawm op. cit. p. 102
p. 63 “its sole decoration”—Lawford, Bound for Diplomacy pp. 191–2
p. 63 “250-ft. gas-holder”—ibid. p. 189
p. 64 “be all, Mr Maclean”—quoted Boyle op. cit. p. 114
p. 65 “modest Scottish shopkeeper”—Cairncross op. cit. p. 65
p. 65 the rest scored 220—TNA FCO 158/209
p. 65 “and quiet. Attractive”—TNA KV 6/144
p. 65 “Rather weak face”—TNA FCO 158/186
Chapter 4: Lyric
p. 66 as a “sleeper”—Modin op. cit. p. 97
p. 66 “and striped trousers”—F. Maclean op. cit. p. 237
p. 67 “the Andaman Islands”—Lawford op. cit. p. 235
p. 68 meant by that—A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914–45, quoted Holzman, Donald and Melinda Maclean p. 85
p. 68 “eagles fall out”—quoted New Histories online 26.4.2012
p. 68 question of war—Brendon, The Dark Valley p. 354
p. 68 “attitude towards Germany”—A. Blunt interview, The Times 21.11.79
p. 69 return to the office—K. Philby, Stasi training video, BBC News 4.4.16
p. 69 “remoter open spaces”—K. Philby, My Silent War p. xxix
p. 69 fn. “to Comrade Stalin”—Andrew op. cit. p. 174
p. 70 Copenhagen diplomatic pouch—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. pp. 81–2
p. 70 “the Three Musketeers”—ibid.
p. 70 “extremely pressing”—Maclean KGB file 83791, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. p. 199
p. 70 “Russians and Germans”—TNA KV 2/1008
p. 71 Paul and Lydia Hardt—TNA KV 2/1009
p. 71 “before February 1936”—TNA KV 2/1008
p. 71 “event of war”—Haslam op. cit. p. 71
p. 71 frenetic diplomat “patience”—Modin op. cit. p. 97
p. 72 “succeed in doing this”—Maclean KGB file, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. p. 200
p. 72 “and the Soviet Union”—ibid.
p. 72 “serious political complications”—ibid. pp. 200–1
p. 72 “the number required”—TNA FCO 158/253
p. 73 “hands of the Soviet Union”—Maclean KGB file, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. p. 201
p. 73 “problems and liabilities”—TNA FCO 158/25
p. 73 by Marxist texts—Brendon op. cit. p. 309
p. 74 “friendly—just children”—Wogan Philipps to Rosamond Lehmann 27.4.37, possession of the author
p. 74 and community centres—Ian Jack, Independent 21.11.15
p. 75 “very sordid surroundings”—quoted Gardiner, The Thirties p. 64
p. 75 “under our eyes”—Cecil op. cit. p. 45
p. 75 “size of the military”—N. Maclean op. cit.
p. 75 “irredeemably heterosexual”—Carter op. cit. photograph caption
p. 75 “the Spanish front”—MacNeice, Autumn Journal vi, in his Collected Poems
p. 76 “horrible development”—Documents on British Foreign Policy, quoted Cecil op. cit. p. 46
p. 76 “official humbug”—Brendon op. cit. p. 332
p. 76 “prolonging the war”—quoted Gardiner op. cit. p. 392
p. 76 “fear of ideas”—Ireland, Traitors p. 9
p. 76 “so much the better”—Gardiner op. cit. p. 393
p. 76 “Non-Intervention agreement”—Taylor, English History 1914–45, quoted Holzman op. cit. p. 89
p. 76 “a true gentleman”—Brendon op. cit. p. 331
p. 77 “the International Brigade”—to Dennis Ogden, 1980, A. Maclean papers op. cit.
p. 77 “confidence in himself”—TNA FCO 158/186
p. 77 “and ticklish work”—ibid.
p. 77 “with cigarette ends”—quoted Cecil op. cit. p. 46
p. 77 “efficiently and zealously”—Brendon op. cit. p. 332
p. 77 “the right background”—Cairncross op. cit. pp. 56–7
p. 78 “brains in the Foreign Office”—West and Tsarev op. cit. p. 208
p. 78 “lack of social graces”—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 108
p. 78 “amiability and weakness”—Connolly op. cit. p. 17
p. 78 “morally and physically”—ibid. p. 20
p. 78 “of view simultaneously”—ibid. p. 21
p. 79 “this wish isn’t unhelpful”—TNA FCO 158/186
p. 79 “sound political judgement”—ibid.
p. 79 153 executed—Damaskin and Elliott, Kitty Harris p. 153
p. 79 “in their teeth”—Brendon op. cit. p. 403
p. 79 fn. died in the gulag—Andrew and Gordievsky op. cit. p. 106
p. 80 “become a clod”—Walter Krivitsky, Spartacus-educational.com
p. 80 “ ‘real spy after all’ ”—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 102
p. 80 sleep all he liked—Michael Voslensky, Nomenklatura, quoted in Kern, A Death in Washington p. 101
p. 81 “met the case”—TNA KV 2/1022
p. 81 “bumptious in manner”—TNA KV 2/2008, quoted Andrew op. cit. p. 180
p. 81 “shrapnel samples from G.”—Damaskin and Elliott op. cit. p. 185
p. 82 “destroy his idealism”—ibid. p. 148
p. 82 “preached by Christianity”—quoted Hermiston, The Greatest Traitor p. 126
p. 83 “the working classes”—TNA KV 2/805
p. 84 “out for a walk”—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 107
p. 84 “Wilson’s surgery hours”—Damaskin and Elliott op. cit. p. 151
p. 84 on 7 January—ibid. p. 162
p. 85 be of use again—ibid. p. 163
p. 85 “Otto and Theo”—undated letter in Maclean KGB file, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. pp. 211–12
p. 86 she loved him—Costello and Tsarev op. cit. p. 210
p. 86 “as far as possible”—ibid. p. 211
p. 86 from his destination—Damaskin and Elliott op. cit. p. 171
p. 86 their private schools—Orlov, Handbook (1963), quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. p. 210
p. 87 and made love—ibid. p. 177
p. 87 “of his own class”—Deutsch KGB file 32826, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. pp. 193–4
p. 87 “Fancy-Pants” Maclean—F. Maclean op. cit. p. 237
p. 88 “an odd taste”—TNA FCO 158/186
p. 88 “work point of view”—ibid.
p. 88 “naturally delighted”—TNA KV 2/4140
p. 88 straight to Moscow—Damaskin and Elliott op. cit. p. 182
p. 88 “is non-existent”—Andrew op. cit. p. 185
Chapter 5: City of Light
p. 89 “an emotive subject”—D. Maclean, British Foreign Policy since Suez p. 9
p. 89 “his diplomatic debut”—Lawford op. cit. p. 289
p. 89 “Napoleon were feeble” –Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic, p. 339
p. 89 seventeen air brigades—Hugh Ragsdale, The Soviets, the Munich Crisis and the Coming of World War Two, quoted Holzman op. cit. p. 105
p. 90 “action with France”—Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) 1938, vol. 1, quoted ibid. p. 106
p. 90 “in acid terms”—Cecil op. cit. p. 51
p. 90 “almost any price”—Phipps telegram 24.9.38, ibid.
p. 90 “without any culture”—quoted Brendon op. cit. p. 461
p. 90 “and without fighting”—MacNeice op. cit. vii
p. 90 “the aggressor’s appetite”—quoted Brendon op. cit. p. 577
p. 90 “betrayal of Czechoslovakia”—post-1976 to Dennis Ogden, A. Maclean papers, Cambridge University Library
p. 91 “corruption of Stalinism”—Lehmann, The Whispering Gallery p. 282
p. 91 “of German power”—TNA KV 4/16
p. 92 “to be abandoned”—Read and Fisher, The Deadly Embrace p. 30
p. 92 “to leave early”—Lawford to Cecil, quoted Cecil op. cit. p. 54
p. 92 “de la République”—Borovik op. cit. p. 143
p. 93 “with us any more”—Damaskin and Elliott op. cit. p. 183
p. 93 “loyalty to us”—ibid. p. 186
p. 93 “hates this atmosphere”—Maclean KGB file 83791, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. pp. 215–16
p. 93 “was doing little”—obituary, Independent 29.9.96
p. 94 “in the Communist system”—ibid.
p. 94 “for technical matters”—Damaskin and Elliott op. cit. p. 184
p. 94 blocking the drain—ibid. p. 185
p. 95 “rather gloomy apartment”—Cecil op. cit. p. 53
p. 95 “sofas of orange-crates”—ibid.
p. 95 “Left Book Club”—ibid.
p. 95 “but definitely ordinaire”—Lawford to Cecil, ibid.
p. 95 on the Paris Metro—papers of Patrick Reilly, Bodleian Library, Oxford
p. 96 “to say good-night”—Cecil op. cit. p. 53
p. 96 “and ill at ease”—Cecil in Andrew and Dilks (eds), The Missing Dimension p. 174
p. 96 “state of anxiety”—Cecil, “Legends Spies Tell,” Encounter, April 1978
p. 96 “few curt answers”—Cecil, A Divided Life p. 53
p. 97 “Germany and Italy”—Maisky, Diaries p. 57
p. 97 “ideas of liberty . . .”—quoted Boyle op. cit. p. 178
p. 97 “entirely different mentality!”—Maisky op. cit. p. 192
p. 98 “with its contents”—FRUS 1939 vol. 1, quoted Holzman op. cit. p. 117
p. 98 code-named “the Baron”—Jeffery, MI6 p. 312
p. 98 “such tactful manners!”—Maisky op. cit. p. 212
p. 98 fn. translate as “washtub”—Brendon op. cit. p. 580
p. 99 “reaching an agreement”—ibid. p. 216
p. 99 thirty-two “attendants”—ibid. p. 219
p. 100 It was a “bombshell”—Modin op. cit. p. 81
p. 100 “nearly destroyed” it—to Dennis Ogden 26.1.80, A. Maclean papers op. cit.
p. 100 “200 years earlier”—Cairncross op. cit. pp. 79–80
p. 100 “whatever the consequences”—ibid. p. 82
p. 100 “against fascism now?”—quoted Macintyre op. cit. p. 48
p. 100 “made war inevitable”—Rees, A Chapter of Accidents p. 149
p. 100 “one of their agents”—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 150
p. 100 a “ticking bomb”—Lownie op. cit. p. 103
p. 100 Moscow Centre wisely refused—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 113
p. 101 “falls into pattern”—quoted Fisher op. cit. p. 67
p. 101 “are fighting for”—Koestler, Scum of the Earth pp. 30–1
p. 101 “going to happen”—The Times 21.11.79, quoted Carter op. cit. p. 241
p. 102 “term than lover”—Gardiner op. cit. p. 186
p. 102 “come out at last”—MacNeice op. cit. xxiv
p. 102 “and laughed uproariously”—Cecil, A Divided Life p. 55
p. 103 “hostilities with Russia”—TNA CAB/65/5/26, quoted Holzman op. cit. p. 125
p. 103 “campaign in Britain”—Maisky op. cit. p. 244
p. 103 “its downward path”—ibid. p. 252
p. 103 “in the Caucasus”—ibid.
pp. 103–4 “small man, a Pole”—TNA KV 2/802
p. 104 “menacing blue eyes”—Newton op. cit. p. xviii
p. 104 “Western European countries”—TNA KV 2/802
p. 104 as Walter Scott—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 981
p. 104 “general in the army”—TNA KV 2/805
p. 105 “our other information”—FO minutes 24.5.39, 25.5.39, 26.5.39, quoted Kern op. cit. p. 192
p. 105 “a theatre of war”—memorandum by Mallet, TNA KV 2/802
p. 105 “also a sculptor”—TNA KV 2/802
p. 105 “in artistic circles”—FBI WFO 65–5648
p. 106 “interests of the State”—TNA KV 2/815
p. 106 “a real ordeal”—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 65
p. 106 “ugly unsolved puzzle”—TNA KV 2/816
p. 106 Gone with the Wind—Newton op. cit. p. 19
p. 106 “citizens of the USSR”—TNA KV 2/805
p. 106 it was poison—Andrew op. cit. p. 264
p. 106 “out of his shell”—Liddell, The Guy Liddell Diaries vol. 1, p. 62
p. 107 “chiefs of the Foreign Office”—TNA KV 2/805
p. 108 “have tried before”—quoted in Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors p. 6
Chapter 6: Left Bank
p. 109 “of Melinda Marling”—Cecil, A Divided Life p. 58
p. 109 a different setting—Fisher op. cit. p. 70
p. 109 the “heterogeneous society”—Hoare op. cit. p. 45
p. 110 had been published—Neil Pearson Rare Books website
p. 111 “a problem child”—TNA KV 6/144
p. 111 “lazy, carefree life”—Hoare op. cit. p. 33
p. 111 “be quite dominant”—ibid. p. 36
p. 111 “hard little nut”—TNA FCO 158/191
p. 112 “a bit prim”—Natasha Walter, “Spies and Lovers,” Guardian 10.5.03
p. 112 “her eyes shine”—Cecil, A Divided Life p. 59
p. 113 “relating to the cinema”—TNA KV 2/4150
p. 113 “practically no friends”—TNA KV 2/4143
p. 113 “interested by him”—Hoare op. cit. p. 47
p. 113 “severe and distinguished”—Connolly op. cit. p. 21
p. 114 “demolishing your apartment”—quoted Cecil, A Divided Life p. 60
p. 114 “and English artists”—Toynbee, “Maclean and I” op. cit.
p. 114 “gossamer-thin nightdress”—Damaskin and Elliott op. cit. p. 191
p. 114 “the same language”—ibid. p. 192
p. 115 “than she thought”—ibid.
p. 115 “and with enthusiasm”—Maclean KGB file 83791, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. p. 217
p. 116 “together ever since”—ibid. p. 215
p. 116 “I have only one”—TNA KV 2/4150
p. 117 “place and password”—Borovik op. cit. p. 151
p. 117 “good and brave comrade”—Damaskin and Elliott op. cit. p. 196
p. 118 processed and despatched—ibid. p. 197
p. 118 “gas-mask cases”—ibid. p. 190
p. 119 “months or days . . .”—TNA FCO 158/186
p. 119 “something of a weakling”—Sir John Balfour to Boyle, quoted Boyle p. 300
p. 120 “to leave France”—Hoare op. cit. p. 49
p. 120 the best man—TNA KV 2/4150
p. 120 “surrealist goulash”—Koestler op. cit. p. 166
p. 120 a refugee committee—Page, Leitch and Knightley op. cit. p. 100
p. 121 best Parisian meals—Cecil, A Divided Life pp. 49–50
Chapter 7: Blitz and Barbarossa
p. 122 “their finest hour”—Gilbert, Finest Hour pp. 568–71
p. 122 to see them—Cecil, A Divided Life p. 63
p. 122 fn. “his impromptu remarks”—quoted New York Times Magazine 3.7.60 p. 31
p. 123 preferably in church—Fisher op. cit. p. 81
p. 123 mother in Surrey—N. Maclean op. cit.
p. 123 “by air raids”—Maisky op. cit. p. 289
p. 123 finished much later—Fisher op. cit. pp. 80–1
p. 124 evacuation to Bordeaux—Cecil, A Divided Life p. 65
p. 124 of what wolfram—ibid.
p. 124 “the word ‘immature’ recurs”—TNA KV 2/4140
p. 125 “should be broken”—quoted Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 109
p. 126 “flattery and hypocrisy”—Andrew and Gordievsky op. cit. p. 130
p. 126 “moonlike bespectacled face”—Cairncross op. cit. p. 90
p. 126 “angry eyebrows”—Vladimir Borkovsky, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. p. 218
p. 126 “business-like manner”—ibid.
p. 126 “most general terms”—Borovik op. cit. p. 135
p. 126 “including the leaders”—Churchill, The Second World War: Their Finest Hour, quoted Boyle op. cit. pp. 187–8
p. 127 “young and so lost”—letter to Cecil, quoted Cecil, A Divided Life p. 65
p. 127 “would not have missed”—Hoare op. cit. p. 50
p. 127 “destroyers around a battleship”—Colin Perry, quoted Ziegler, London at War p. 112
p. 127 “blown to bits”—Lehmann, I Am my Brother pp. 80–1
p. 128 “fell in love”—TNA KV 2/4143
p. 128 “an inconsolable child”—Boyle op. cit. p. 201
p. 128 “relieved of it”—Maclean KGB file 83791, quoted Costello and Tsarev op. cit. p. 219
p. 129 three and a half years—Carter op. cit. p. 268
p. 129 Walter Krivitsky—West and Tsarev op. cit. p. 145
p. 129 could be carried out—Cairncross op. cit. pp. 80–1
p. 129 following morning—ibid. p. 92
p. 129 4,419 documents—Andrew and Mitrokhin op. cit. p. 120
p. 130 “possibilities of peace”—Rees op. cit. p. 155
p. 130 “intellectual challenge”—Luke op. cit. p. ix
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