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A Spy Named Orphan

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by Roland Philipps


  Sansom, Alfred “Sammy,” 221–2, 226, 258–9

  Sargent, Sir Malcolm, 368

  Sargent, Sir Orme, 76, 228

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 109

  Saturday Evening Post, 104

  Schmidt’s restaurant, London, 3, 300, 311, 318

  Schwarzach, Austria, 352

  Scientific Worker (journal), 171

  Scoones, Bloomsbury (school), 57, 223, 317

  Scott, C.P., 9–10, 14

  Scott’s restaurant, Mayfair, 311

  Second World War: outbreak, 99, 207; Soviet–Finnish Winter War, 102–3, 137; Nazi occupation of Low Countries and France, 116, 117, 118; Battle of Britain, 122; Blitz, 127–8, 130; Nazi invasion of Soviet Union, 129–30, 131–2, 134–5, 360; US entry, 129, 136; Battle of Kursk, 133; D-Day landings, 134, 139, 277; Soviet advance on Berlin, 155, 185; end of, 161, 185

  Sereni, Emilio, 264

  “sex-pol” movement, 48–9, 56n, 82

  Shakespeare, William, Othello, 42

  Shawcross, Sir Hartley (later Baron Shawcross), 173

  Sheers, Harriet see Marling, Harriet

  Sheers, Jay, 301–2

  Shipping, Ministry of, 124

  Shrubb, Sylvia, 273

  Sillitoe, Alan, 364

  Sillitoe, Sir Percy, 264, 315, 330, 331–2

  Silver Crescent (Trinity Hall magazine), 39–40, 41

  Simon, Ernest (later 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe), 14

  Simon, Jocelyn (later Baron Simon of Glaisdale), 37–8, 61

  Skardon, William “Jim,” 234–5, 239, 260, 287, 330, 342–3, 354, 377; questioning of family and associates following DM’s disappearance, 311, 320, 331, 332–3, 340, 342, 346, 347

  Slater, Humphrey, 285, 296, 318

  Smith, Phyllis, 197

  Smith, Sally (later Toynbee), 285

  Smith, Walter Bedell, 331

  Society of Analytical Psychology, 256

  SOE (Special Operations Executive), 137

  Solly-Flood, Peter, 193, 253

  Solon, Larry, 324–5

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 369

  Sonning, Berkshire, 336

  Sorbonne, 111

  South Egremont, Massachusetts, 111, 143, 197

  Southampton, 5, 303

  Soviet Union: Western diplomatic recognition of, 26; under Stalin, 29, 79–80, 82, 360–61; Five Year Plans, 29; Western visitors to, 29, 363; Western communists’ views on, 33; purges, 79–80, 82–3, 312; Second World War, 118, 131–2, 134–7, 155, 360; and post-war division of Europe, 146–7, 150–51, 155–9, 199; Berlin blockade, 202; atomic weapons development, 173, 189, 191–2, 231–2, 235–6; and Korean War, 263; “Doctors’ plot” against Stalin, 360; death of Stalin, 350, 361, 362; under Khrushchev, 350, 356–7, 362, 364, 377; under Brezhnev, 377; glasnost and perestroika, 371, 375, 380; see also Nazi–Soviet Pact

  Spanish Civil War, 73–7, 90, 91, 101, 365, 382

  Spectator, The (magazine), 367

  Speers, Ellen, 246

  Spence School, New York, 111

  Spender, Humphrey, 14, 335

  Spender, Sir Stephen, 14

  Spurgeon, Ernest, 90

  Stalin, Joseph: Five Year Plans, 29; purges, 79–80, 82–3, 312; and Munich Agreement, 90–91, 96; Second World War, 118, 130, 131, 133, 135; and post-war division of Europe, 146–7, 150–51, 155–9, 199; and Iranian oilfields, 162; and Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech, 163; and Turkish Straits crisis, 181–2; and atomic weapons development, 186, 202; and Marshall Plan, 199–200; and Berlin blockade, 202; “Doctors’ plot” against, 360; and threat of nuclear war, 281; death, 350, 361, 362; denounced by Khrushchev, 364; see also Nazi–Soviet Pact

  Stalin, Svetlana, 126

  Staten Island, New York, 186

  Stein, Gertrude, 110

  Stephenson, Sir William, 176

  Stern Gang, 207

  Stettinius, Edward Jr., 137

  Stevenson, Sir Ralph, 257

  Stockholm, 338

  Stokke Manor, Wiltshire, 261, 318

  Strachey, John, 28

  Strachey, Julia, 59

  Strachey, Lytton, 28, 59

  Strang, Sir William (later 1st Baron Strang), 272, 299, 315, 330, 340

  Strauss, Lewis, 190

  Student Christian Movement, 39

  Sudetenland, 90, 92

  Sudoplatov, Pavel, 94

  Suez Canal, 182, 206, 215

  Sunday Times, 348, 356–9, 371, 375

  Sunnyside, New York, 376

  Supply, Ministry of, 124, 278

  Suschitzky, Edith (later Tudor-Hart), 47–8

  Sweden, 103, 263, 336; see also Stockholm

  Swiss Bank Corporation, 344

  Tangier, 264

  Tatsfield, Kent, 1, 273; Beaconshaw (Maclean family home), 273, 311, 341, 363

  Taylor, Eunice, 246

  Teheran Conference (1943), 162

  Tel Aviv, 207, 214

  tennis, 42, 141, 153, 211, 231

  Territet, Switzerland, 351, 353

  Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 377, 378

  Thistlethwaite, Richard “Dick,” 219

  Thomas, Wilfrid, 150, 283

  Time (magazine), 84, 288

  Times, The, 12, 74, 83, 363, 367

  Tiree, Hebrides, 8, 366

  Topolski, Feliks, 131

  Tours, France, 120

  Toynbee, Arnold, 241

  Toynbee, Philip: family background and early life, 59; appearance, character and views, 59, 61, 241, 288; DM first meets, 59–60, 61, 270; in Paris, 114; in Cairo, 241–3; drunken binge with DM, 243–7, 257, 258–9, 270, 272; and DM’s treatment for breakdown, 255–6; in London, 261, 266, 285, 288–9; article on Hiss–Chambers case, 288–9; last encounters with DM, 288–9, 300, 301, 309; correspondence with DM after defection, 365–6

  Toynbee, Sally, 285

  trade unions, 17–18, 26

  Travellers Club, 3, 261, 281, 300, 301, 308, 309, 318

  Treasury, 78, 278

  Trevelyan, Sir Charles, 15

  Trevelyan, G.M., 38, 62

  Trevelyan, Raleigh, 369

  Trinity College, Cambridge, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34

  Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 28–9, 30–31, 61, 171; Silver Crescent (magazine), 39–40, 41

  Trollope, Anthony, 363

  Trotsky, Leon, assassination, 175

  Truman, Harry S., 157–8, 181–2, 186, 191, 199n, 201, 202, 236, 280

  Tube Alloys (British atomic research programme), 172, 186n

  Tudor-Hart, Alexander, 47–8

  Tudor-Hart, Edith (née Suschitzky), 47–8

  Turck, James, 295

  Turing, Alan, 136

  Turkey, 146, 199; see also Istanbul

  Turkish Straits crisis (1946–53), 181–4, 202

  Turquet, André, 57

  Tynan, Kenneth, 369

  Tyrrell-Martin, Eric, 224, 225, 226

  Tzara, Tristan, 114

  Union Bank of Switzerland, 344

  United Nations, 188, 260; foundation, 156, 158, 182; Security Council, 263

  United States Shipping and Service Corporation (front organisation), 175, 176

  University College, London, 49, 376

  uranium, 172, 173, 186–7, 189–90, 282

  V-weapons, 139

  Vassar College, New York, 174

  “Venona” operation (US decryption project), 179–81, 192, 205, 217–18, 232–4, 236, 264–5; identification of DM, 218–20, 227–30, 232, 265, 277, 282–4, 298–9

  vetting procedures, Foreign Office, 64, 347, 367

  Vevey, Switzerland, 111

  Vienna, 47, 48–9

  Vinogradov, Sergei, 183–4

  Vivian, Valentine, 69, 106

  Volkov, Konstantin, 166–9, 172, 181, 239, 373

  Volkov, Zoya, 167, 169

  Volpe, Joseph, 190

  Vyshinsky, Andrei, 156

  Wain, John, 364

  Waldman, Louis, 108

  Wall Street Crash (1929), 29

  Wallace, Henry, 149

  Wansbroug
h-Jones, Sir Owen, 45, 51–2, 64

  Wardle-Smith, John, 246, 247

  Warminster, Wiltshire, 335

  Washington, DC, 143–4, 151; Bellevue Hotel, 108; British Embassy, 105, 140–41, 148–9, 227–9, 265; Georgetown, 192; Hay Adams Hotel, 191, 205; Hotel Lafayette, 143; Rock Creek Park, 198, 199; Wardman Park Hotel, 198

  Waterloo Station, 342–3

  Watt, Donald Cameron, 371

  Waugh, Evelyn, 41, 131; Brideshead Revisited, 25

  Webb, Beatrice and Sidney, 208; Soviet Communism: A New Civilization, 43

  Weidenfeld, George, Baron, 131

  Weisband, William, 217, 233

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 91

  West, Nathaniel, 110

  West, Dame Rebecca, 150, 194, 305

  West Wheeling, Virginia, 236

  Westerham, Kent, 273, 288, 336

  Westminster School, 34

  Wheeler’s restaurant, Soho, 3, 318

  White, Sir Dick, 229, 296, 309, 315, 327, 331

  White Paper on Burgess and Maclean defections (1955), 367, 381

  Whitechapel, 85

  White’s Club, 168

  Wigg, George (later Baron Wigg), 328

  Wight, Isle of, 241

  Wilde, Oscar, 217, 331

  William Collins (publishing company), 343

  Williams, Geraldine, 246

  Williams, William Carlos, 110

  Wilson, D.A., 351

  Wilson, Edwin C., 183–4

  Wilson, Henry, 1st Baron, 188

  Wilson, Henry (psychiatrist), 193, 253–5, 257

  Winter War (1939–40), 102–3, 137

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 29, 38

  Wolton, Aubrey, 127

  Woolf, Leonard, 127

  Woolf, Virginia, 41, 127, 307

  Woolwich Arsenal spy ring, 81, 84

  Wormwood Scrubs Prison, 240, 375; MI5 temporary headquarters, 137–8

  Wright, Esther, Lady, 311

  Wright, Sir Michael: in Washington, 144, 177, 311; in London, 215; as possible intelligence leak, 239, 282–3, 291, 292; and DM’s posting to FO American Department, 271–2; and identification of DM as spy, 297–8, 311

  Yakovlev, Anatoli, 198

  Yalta Conference (1945), 155–7, 161, 217

  Yeats, W.B., 292

  Yost, Yevgeny, 195

  Yugoslavia, 146, 147; see also Belgrade

  Zhukov, Georgy, 157

  Zola, Emile, La Bête Humaine, 95–6

  Zurich, 344, 352

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