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by Roland Philipps


  Section Two

  Donald and Melinda: AP / Rex / Shutterstock. Philip Toynbee: © National Portrait Gallery, London. Beaconshaw: Evening Standard / Stringer. Donald in pinstripes: Bridgeman Images. Maclean family: Keystone-France. Foreign Office: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo. The Falaise: Science & Society Picture Library / Contributor. Wanted posters: AP / Rex / Shutterstock. Melinda and children: Keystone Pictures USA / Alamy Stock Photo. Alan Maclean and mother: TopFoto.co.uk. Jim Skardon: Popperfoto / Contributor. Vladimir Petrov: Keystone Pictures USA / Alamy Stock Photo. Melinda Marling: AP / TopFoto.co.uk. Bugress funeral: AP / Rex / Shutterstock. Philby and Melinda: Photograph by John Philby, Camera Press London. Maclean’s funeral: AP / Rex / Shutterstock.

  Other

  Telegram on page 334: Levy / AP / REX / Shutterstock

  INDEX

  Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.

  A4 (MI5 surveillance unit), 304–5

  Abraham Lincoln Battalion (Spanish Civil War), 74

  Abyssinian crisis (1935), 67–8

  Acheson, Dean, 188, 205, 328–9

  AEC see Atomic Energy Commission

  Akhbar Al-Yom (newspaper), 242

  Akhmerov, Itzhak, 176

  Akron, University of, 179

  Alexandria, 231, 259

  Allen, George, 183

  Alsop, Joseph, 162, 178

  Amis, Sir Kingsley, 364

  Angleton, James, 329

  Anglo-German Fellowship, 50

  Anglo-German Trade Gazette, 50

  Anstee, Dame Margaret, 278–9, 319, 326

  Anvil, Operation (proposed Allied Mediterranean landings), 146–7, 218, 277

  Apostles (Cambridge University conversation society), 38, 307

  appeasement, 89–90, 95, 100, 140–41

  Apresyan, Stephen, 144

  Arab–Israeli War, 214–15

  Archer, Jane, 106–7, 172

  Argentina, 317, 319

  Arlington Hall, Virginia (US Army Signal Intelligence Service headquarters), 136, 159, 179–80, 218, 232–3; see also “Venona” operation

  Armistice Day Riots (1933), 39–40, 41

  Army and Navy Club, 301

  Ashton, Sir Frederick, 261

  Asquith, Herbert (later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 10

  Astor, David, 241

  Athenaeum Club, 34

  atom spies see Fuchs, Klaus; May, Alan Nunn; Pontecorvo, Bruno

  Atomic Energy Commission (United States; AEC), 188, 190–92, 236

  atomic and nuclear energy/weapons development, 185–92; Britain, 172, 186–90, 263–4; Canada, 170–71, 189–90; Soviet Union, 173, 189, 191–2, 231–2, 235–6; United States, 117, 180, 186–8, 189–92, 202, 215, 233–4, 236; see also nuclear war, threat of

  Attlee, Clement (later 1st Earl Attlee), 64, 161, 208, 280, 316, 325

  Auden, W.H., 13, 14, 16, 20, 23, 41

  Austen, Jane, 4, 320, 338

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, 336–7

  Ayer, Sir A.J. “Freddie,” 261, 301, 308

  Baghdad, 203

  Baku, oil fields, 103

  Baldwin, Stanley (later 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley), 8–9, 19, 37, 72, 76

  Balfour, Frances, Lady, 193, 195

  Balfour, Sir John, 193, 239, 292

  Barbarossa, Operation (Nazi invasion of Soviet Union; 1941), 129–30, 131–2, 134–5, 360

  Barclay, Sir Roderick, 145, 296

  Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 9, 12

  Barron, Samuel, 276, 297

  Bartlett, Vernon, 97

  baseball, 141, 194

  Bassett, Evelyn (earlier Burgess), 56

  Bassett, John, 342–3

  Bath (parliamentary constituency), 10

  Bayswater, Southwick Place, 11

  Beauvallon, France, 344

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 109

  Beggendorf, Germany, 335

  Belfrage, Cedric, 228–9

  Belgian Congo, 186

  Belgium, 116, 186, 190

  Belgrade, British Embassy, 335

  Bell, Clive, 131

  Bell, Julian, 26–7, 38, 39, 74

  Bell, Quentin, 307

  Bell, Vanessa, 131

  Bell, Walter, 194–5

  Bennett, Alan, The History Boys, 20n

  Benson, A.C., 15

  Bensusan-Butt, David, 27

  Bentley, Elizabeth, 174–7, 198, 216

  Beria, Lavrenti, 126, 157, 350, 361

  Berkeley, HMS, 121

  Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948–49), 202

  Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 148–9

  Bermuda, 131, 178

  Bern, Switzerland, 338, 339

  Bernadotte, Folke, assassination, 207

  Berthoud, Sir Eric, 17

  Bête Humaine, La (film; 1938), 95–6

  Bevin, Ernest, 161, 184, 200, 278

  Bey, Fadel, 242

  Biarritz, 121

  Bicycle Thieves (film; 1948), 251

  Birkenhead, F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of, 122n

  Bizet, Georges, Carmen, 85

  Blackshirts (British Union of Fascists), 59, 73, 74

  Blake, Anthony, 44–5, 271, 316

  Blake, George, 82, 375–6, 378

  Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 138

  Bletchley Park (wartime Government Code & Cypher School), 133, 136

  Blitz, 127–8, 130, 131

  Blunt, (Sir) Anthony: family background and early life, 56, 210; character and sexuality, 271, 279; at Cambridge, 27, 31, 38; relationship with Guy Burgess, 31, 38, 159, 303; recruitment as Soviet agent, 62–3, 68, 70; and recruitment of Cairncross, 50; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 101; works for MI5, 129, 132, 133, 134, 137, 159; wartime espionage, 129, 132–3, 134, 160; wartime life in London, 130; response to Nazi invasion of Soviet Union, 132; leaves MI5 and resumes art history career, 279; material passed to Soviets, 279; meets Burgess on recall to England, 303; and Burgess and Maclean defections, 4, 307, 310n, 313; exposure, 377; unpublished memoir, 271

  Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 210

  Bonham Carter, Cressida (later Ridley), 57, 60

  Bonham Carter, Laura (later Lady Grimond), 57, 58–9, 61, 261

  Bonham Carter, Mark (later Baron Bonham-Carter), 343

  Bonham Carter, Lady Violet (later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury), 57, 59, 64, 343, 367

  Bordeaux, 118, 121

  Bouverie, B.P. “Barty,” 310–311

  Bowes and Bowes (bookshop), 364

  Bowes-Lyon, Sir David, 151

  Boyle, Kay, 110

  Braine, John, 364

  Brannerman, Jacqueline, 246

  Brewis, John, 203

  Brezhnev, Leonid, 377

  Brinton, John, 224–5

  British Association of Scientific Workers, 172

  British Foreign Policy since Suez (DM), 89, 263, 362, 368, 370–71

  British Union of Fascists (Blackshirts), 59, 73, 74

  Britten, Benjamin (later Baron Britten), 14

  Brooks’s Club, 261

  Browder, Earl, 85, 175

  Brown, Mary, 227

  Buhler, Robert, 285

  Bulganin, Nikolai, 356, 359

  Bulgaria, 182

  Burgess, Guy: family background and early life, 34, 56; appearance, character and sexuality, 34–5, 38, 62, 160, 197, 264–5, 279, 307; at Cambridge, 31, 34–5, 38, 39, 270; friendship with Kim Philby, 34; relationship with Anthony Blunt, 31, 38, 159; DM first meets, 34–5; life in London, 58, 60; recruitment as Soviet agent, 62–3, 70; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 100–101; wartime espionage, 126, 160; wartime life in London, 130; brief placement in Foreign Office News Department, 264; works for Hector McNeil, 208, 264; in Foreign Office Far Eastern Department, 226; post-war life in London, 60, 261, 264–5; on leave in Gibraltar and Tangier, 264; posting to Washington Embassy, 265, 273, 286, 295; recalled to London, 295, 298, 299, 303, 320; last days in England, 303, 305, 306–7, 310, 31
3–14, 316; plans for defection, 313–14; day of disappearance, 4–5, 319–22, 337–8; reaches France, 5, 322, 337–8; travels to Prague via Bern, 338–9; arrives in Moscow, 359; life in Soviet Union, 360–62, 368, 377; reappears in Moscow and issues public statement, 357–8, 359, 367–8; declining health, 372; death, 372–3

  Burrows, Sir Bernard, 206, 207, 208

  Bush, Vannevar, 188

  Butler, Sir Nevile, 319

  Byrnes, James F., 162, 182–3, 184, 188, 199

  Byron, George, 6th Baron, 331

  Cadman, Sir John (later 1st Baron Cadman), 64

  Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 131–2; committee of enquiry into Foreign Office security, 347

  Caffrey, Jefferson, 209, 246, 248

  Cairncross, John: family background and early life, 56, 65, 77; character, 56n, 78; at Cambridge, 31; joins Foreign Office, 64–5, 77–8; recruitment as Soviet agent, 50, 70, 78; transferred to Treasury, 78; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 100; wartime espionage, 129, 133, 160; returns to Treasury after war, 278, 279

  Cairo, 212–13; British Embassy, 203, 206, 209–210; Esbekieh Gardens, 222; Gezireh, 210–211, 222; Metropolitan Hotel, 247; see also Helouan

  Calvinism, 37, 44, 56, 82, 370

  Cambridge, 307, 364; Armistice Day Riots (1933), 39–40, 41

  Cambridge Left, 40–41

  Cambridge Review, 27

  Cambridge Union debates, 26, 33

  Cambridge University, 30; Communism at, 26–9, 31–3, 38–9; see also Girton College; Newnham College; Trinity College; Trinity Hall

  Cambridge University Socialist Society (CUSS), 25, 32, 38–9

  Campbell, Colin, 213

  Campbell, Mary (née Ormsby-Gore) see Mayall, Mary, Lady

  Campbell, Lady Mary (née St Clair Erskine; earlier Dunn), 262, 366; on day of DM’s disappearance, 3, 317–18

  Campbell, Robin: friendship with DM, 57, 88, 95, 261; marriages, 58, 223; on day of DM’s disappearance, 3, 317, 318

  Campbell, Sir Ronald Hugh, 57, 119, 124, 223, 282–3

  Campbell, Sir Ronald Ian, 157–8, 209, 211–12, 221, 222, 226, 237, 246, 247–8

  Canada, 169–71, 189; see also Ottawa; Quebec

  Canberra, 336–7

  Cannes, 335

  Cardiff, 9

  Carey Foster, George: head of Foreign Office security, 222, 301, 319; and “Venona” decrypts evidence, 229, 283; and Walter Krivitsky’s partial identifications, 238–9; and DM’s psychoanalysis following breakdown, 256; and Guy Burgess’s posting to Washington, 265; and security services’ investigations of Washington Embassy leaks, 283, 292, 294, 296–7, 309, 315; and DM’s disappearance, 323, 330–31

  Carmarthen, 9

  Carroll, Daphne, 279

  Cecil, Kathleen, 196, 270, 341

  Cecil, Robert, 75, 95–6, 112, 124, 141, 152, 164, 198, 201, 278, 316, 326, 340–41

  Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, 171

  Chamberlain, Neville, 78, 97, 98, 100, 103, 122; Munich Agreement, 89–91, 91–2, 140–41, 369

  Chambers, Whittaker, 216–17, 288–9

  Chapman-Andrews, Sir Edwin, 248–50, 258

  Charleston, South Carolina, 295

  Charques, R.D., Contemporary Literature and Social Revolution, DM’s review of, 40–41

  Chartres, 120

  Chatham, Kent, 324

  Cheke, Sir Marcus, 278

  Chelsea, Oakley Street, 69

  Chiang Kai-shek, 232

  Chicago, 110; Comiskey Park, 141

  Chicago White Sox (baseball team), 141

  Chiesman, Sir Walter, 253, 256, 257, 260, 261, 271

  Childers, Erskine, 14

  China, 232, 280

  Chkalovskaya, Maclean family dacha, 366

  Christie, Dame Agatha, 49, 320

  Churchill, Sarah, 156

  Churchill, Sir Winston, 50, 76, 140; wartime Prime Minister, 103, 122, 126, 132, 133, 139, 146–7, 150, 155–8, 161, 185; Iron Curtain speech, 163

  CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency), 137, 218, 219

  City of Exeter (ship), 98

  Claret, Operation (Ordzhonikidze incident; 1956), 359

  Clark Kerr, Sir Archibald see Inverchapel, Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron

  Clark, William, 177–8

  Clarke, Carter W., 180

  Clay, Lucius, 202

  Clayton, William L., 200

  Clutton, Sir George, 206

  Cockerell, Sir Christopher, 15

  code-breaking, 73, 133, 135–7, 159, 179–81; see also “Venona” operation

  code-names and pseudonyms, DM’s, 54, 78, 146, 297, 361, 363

  Collins (publishing company), 343

  Columbia University, New York, 174

  Combined Policy Committee (on atomic energy development; CPC), 188, 189, 190, 195

  Comintern (Communist International), 31, 48, 53, 101, 151

  Committee of Imperial Defence, 72–3, 107

  Commonwealth Conference (Ottawa; 1932), 36

  Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB): foundation, 28; membership numbers, 29; and General Strike, 18; at Cambridge University, 31–2, 38; MI5 penetration of, 80–82; response to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 101

  Communist Party of the United States, 85, 149, 174–5

  Congo, 186

  Connolly, Cyril, 131, 208, 281, 287–8, 301, 309; meets DM on day of disappearance, 3, 318; views on DM, 58, 78, 113, 208, 261, 266–7; The Missing Diplomats, 348–9

  Constantini, Secondo, 69

  Contact Editions (publishing company), 110

  Cooke, Alistair, 288

  Cooper, Lady Diana (later Viscountess Norwich), 369

  Cooper, Duff (later 1st Viscount Norwich), 349

  Copenhagen, 70

  Coplon, Judith, 236

  Cornford, John, 74

  Cornforth, Kitty (née Klugmann), 29, 32

  Cornforth, Maurice, 29, 31–2

  Cossitt, Thomas, 170n

  Courtauld Institute, 279

  CPGB see Communist Party of Great Britain

  Crabb, Lionel “Buster,” 359

  Crankshaw, Edward, 372

  cricket, 7, 37, 42, 61, 141, 194

  Cripps, Sir Stafford, 132

  Cronin, A.J., The Citadel, 84

  Culme-Seymour, Mark, 78, 111–12, 261, 287–8, 300, 301, 311, 379; best man to DM, 120

  Cumming-Bruce, Sir Roualeyn, 24, 44–5, 316

  Cunard, Nancy, 131

  Curle, Sir John, 319

  Curry, John, 173–4

  Curzon, George, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, 297

  Curzon Street, Mayfair, 297

  CUSS see Cambridge University Socialist Society

  Czechoslovakia, 89–90, 92, 97, 201; Warsaw Pact invasion (1968), 369; see also Prague

  D-Day landings (1944), 134, 139, 277

  Daily Express, 257, 285, 324, 326, 328, 338–9, 348

  Daily Mail, 17–18, 335, 371

  Daily Telegraph, 334

  Daladier, Edouard, 89, 91, 98

  Danzig, 99

  Daoud, Prince of Egypt, 231

  “Dare Doggerel. Nov. 11” (poem; DM), 40

  Dartmouth Naval College, 34

  Davies, Joseph E., 173

  De Sica, Vittorio, Bicycle Thieves, 251

  Denmark, 103, 116, 137; see also Copenhagen

  Depression (1930s), 20, 27, 29–30, 32–3, 41, 148, 379

  Deutsch, Arnold: background, character and early life, 48–9; Soviet recruitment agent in England, 49–50, 69, 96; recruitment and running of Cambridge spy ring, 48, 49, 50, 54–7, 60, 61, 62, 66, 69–70, 166; and Woolwich Arsenal spy ring, 81; recalled to Moscow, 82–3, 84

  Deutsch, Oscar, 49

  Devitt, Andrew, 10

  Devitt, Buddy, 349

  Devitt, Jane, 123

  Dixie Clipper (flying boat), 131

  Djilas, Milovan, 147

  Dobb, Maurice, 28, 31–2, 33, 34

  Doctor Strangelove (film; 1964), 187n

  Dollfuss, Engelbert, 47

  Donbass (Soviet ship), 82

>   Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” 137

  Dos Passos, John, 41

  Double-Cross system, 133

  Drax, Sir Reginald, 98

  Dresden, 75

  Driberg, Tom (later Baron Bradwell), 360

  Duart Castle, Mull, 8

  Dulles, Allen, 331

  Dunbar, Hal, 111, 128, 141, 142, 152, 197

  Dunbar, Melinda (earlier Marling; DM’s mother-in-law): marriage to Francis Marling, 110–111, 113; children’s upbringing, 111; marriage to Hal Dunbar, 111, 197; and daughter’s relationship with and marriage to DM, 113, 119, 121, 141–2, 152, 273; and DM’s mother, 164; takes daughter to Spain after DM’s breakdown in Cairo, 259; looks after grandchildren in Paris, 267; supports daughter following DM’s disappearance, 340, 344, 347, 348; and daughter’s flight to Soviet Union, 352, 354–5, 363, 364–5; visits daughter in Moscow, 372, 374

  Dunkirk evacuation (1940), 118

  Durrell, Lawrence, 261

  Dutt, Clemens Palme, 31

  Dwyer, Peter, 219, 232, 283

  Eccles, J.R., 14, 17

  Economic Warfare, Ministry of, 124

  Eden, Sir Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon), 76, 139, 156, 158, 161, 359

  Egypt, 203, 206–7, 212–13, 214–15, 223, 241–2, 263; see also Alexandria; Cairo

  elections see general elections; local elections

  Eliot, T.S., 41, 200, 361; Four Quartets, 241

  Elizabeth, Princess (later Queen Elizabeth II), 212

  Elizabeth, Queen consort (later Queen Mother), 151

  Elliott, Nicholas, 338

  Engert, Sheila, 246

  Enigma machine, 136

  Eton College, 34, 107, 291

  Everson, Sir Frederick, 302

  Fahmy, Isis, 220

  Fairlie, Henry, 367

  Faiza, Princess of Egypt, 220

  Falaise, SS, 4, 314, 320, 337, 342

  Falklands War (1982), 377

  Farouk, King of Egypt, 209, 212, 220

  fascism, 20, 27–8, 49, 67–8, 73–5; see also British Union of Fascists; Nazism

 

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