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by Ben MacIntyre


  18 junk: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, March 30, 1941.

  19 a high proportion: Robin “Tin-Eye” Stephens, KV 4/8, Report on the Operations of Camp 020.

  20 You have forfeited your life: Cited in Emily Wilson, “The War in the Dark: The Security Service and the Abwehr 1940–1944” (PhD thesis, Cambridge University, 2003), p. 63.

  21 an almost suicidal appetite: Alistair Robertson, correspondence with the author, September 10, 2011.

  22 a perfect officer type: Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (London, 2004), p. 131.

  23 friendly eyes and an assertive: Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives (London, 2001), p. 284.

  24 less than promising: Alistair Robertson, correspondence with the author, September 10, 2011.

  25 immensely personable: Christopher Harmer, address at Memorial Service for Tar Robertson, October 13, 1995.

  26 unmistakable twinkle: Peter Stormonth Darling, address at memorial service for Tar Robertson, October 13, 1995.

  27 by and large pretty stupid: Christopher Andrew, Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (London, 1985), p. 645.

  28 real genius: Hugh Trevor-Roper, cited in Wilson, “War in the Dark,” p. 67.

  29 shifty look: KV 2/448.

  30 stupid little man: Joshua Levine, Operation Fortitude: The Story of the Spy Operation That Saved D-Day (London, 2011), p. 45.

  31 saved us from absolute: Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (London, 2009), p. 249.

  32 fanatical Nazi: Robin Stephens, Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi Spies (London, 2000), p. 138.

  33 he had helped the man: KV 2/60.

  34 The double agent is a tricky: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 52.

  35 blow our whole show: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 258.

  36 I have a strong feeling: KV 2/845.

  37 Giraffe’s case died chiefly: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 55.

  38 the Club: Wilson, “War in the Dark,” p. 138.

  39 Running a team of double: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 91.

  40 initiated into the mysteries: Oliver Locker-Lampson, “Adolf Hitler as I Know Him,” Daily Mirror, September 30, 1930.

  41 bigger and harder ball: Ibid.

  42 ready to take the field: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 91.

  43 We have in him a new agent: KV 2/845.

  Chapter 3: Roman and the Cat

  1 I wonder if anybody: Roman Garby-Czerniawski, The Big Network (London, 1961), p. 218.

  2 a complete picture: Ibid., p. 10.

  3 Many happy returns: Ibid., p. 233.

  4 Why did you ask: Ibid., p. 238.

  5 I must be tired: Ibid., p. 237.

  6 The light was switched: Ibid., p. 240.

  7 intelligent face: Ibid., p. 142.

  8 If only someone: Ibid., p. 245.

  9 It was a great gamble: Mathilde-Lily Carré, I Was the Cat (London, 1960), p. 104.

  10 an ordinary denunciation: KV 2/72.

  11 wide boy: Carré, I Was the Cat, p. 90.

  12 I was like an animal: Ibid., p. 107.

  13 inhumanely: Ibid., p. 116.

  14 the greatest act of cowardice: Ibid., p. 115.

  15 Winning Bleicher’s confidence: Ibid., p. 126.

  16 You must behave: Ibid., p. 112.

  17 a strangely haunted: Ibid., p. 110.

  18 one by one: Ibid., p. 117.

  19 A few men proved: KV 2/72.

  20 We have decided: Carré, I Was the Cat, p. 119.

  21 I had felt the icy: Ibid., p. 115.

  22 started to laugh contentedly: Garby-Czerniawski, Big Network, p. 243.

  23 treated severely: KV 2/72.

  24 terrified eyes: Garby-Czerniawski, Big Network, p. 242.

  25 given everything away: KV 2/72.

  26 an extremely odd: Oscar Reile, Geheime West Front (Munich, 1962), p. 214.

  27 in unusually polite: KV 2/72.

  28 The English knew: Reile, Geheime West Front, p. 214.

  Chapter 4: Coat Trailing

  1 cosmopolitan cover: Nigel West, “High Society Spy,” Mail on Sunday, May 7, 1995.

  2 small class of: KV 2/2098.

  3 altogether more agreeable: West, “High Society Spy.”

  4 obviously rolling: KV 2/2098.

  5 a nice girl but without: KV 2/464.

  6 looked a little like: Lily Sergueiev, Secret Service Rendered: An Agent in the Espionage Duel Preceding the Invasion of France (London, 1968), p. 24.

  7 ordinary writing paper: KV 2/464.

  8 This has been dragging: Sergueiev, Secret Service Rendered, p. 53.

  9 serve the Allied: Ibid., p. 53.

  10 I have confidence: Ibid., p. 53.

  11 I wave a handkerchief: Ibid., p. 73.

  Chapter 5: The Club

  1 scrofulous Nazi: Joshua Levine, Operation Fortitude: The Story of the Spy Operation That Saved D-Day (London, 2011), p. 125.

  2 manifestly unemployable: Robin Stephens, Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi Spies (London, 2000), p. 156.

  3 newfound loyalty: Levine, Operation Fortitude, p. 88.

  4 a pearl among agents: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 53.

  5 I cannot help regarding: KV 2/845.

  6 You’ll soon want: Dusko Popov, Spy/Counterspy (London, 1974), p. 95.

  7 expected much from: KV 2/845.

  8 There was a law: Popov, Spy/Counterspy, p. 66.

  9 he made no effort: KV 2/845.

  10 They propose to buy: KV 2/860.

  11 the answers we had: KV 2/845.

  12 A case officer should: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 70.

  13 command the best talent: Emily Wilson, “The War in the Dark: The Security Service and the Abwehr 1940–1944” (PhD thesis, Cambridge University, 2003), p. 96.

  14 The running and control: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 15.

  15 the collector of facts: Peggy Harmer, cited in Wilson, “War in the Dark,” p. 127.

  16 overgrown schoolboys: Christopher Harmer to Hugh Astor, October 28, 1992. Collection of Robert Astor.

  17 casual agent: Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (London, 2009), p. 242.

  18 real understanding: KV 2/1067.

  19 Thank God for Tar: Harmer to Astor, October 28, 1992.

  20 born leader: J. C. Masterman, On the Chariot Wheel: An Autobiography (Oxford, 1975), p. 219.

  21 In this game one never: KV 4/70.

  22 in an obviously: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 101.

  23 since he always does: Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives (London, 2001), p. 273.

  24 That’s what Tiggers: Ibid.

  25 He was a very nice: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 270.

  26 I couldn’t stick the man: Carter, Anthony Blunt, p. 284.

  27 Tony is a thorough: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 272.

  Chapter 6: Garbo Takes the Stage

  1 Who was this Arabel: Nigel West and Juan Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo (London, 2011), p. 88.

  2 drunken orgies: Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (London, 2009), p. 254.

  3 87 shillings and 10 pence: Tomás Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day (London, 2004), p. 59.

  4 very wild messages: Joshua Levine, Operation Fortitude: The Story of the Spy Operation That Saved D-Day (London, 2011), p. 160.

  5 I do not see why: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, March 26, 1942.

  6 a miracle that he: Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day, p. 77.

  7 inexhaustibly fertile: Ibid., p. 34.

  8 With fierce black: Sefton Delmer, The Counterfeit Spy (London 1971), p. 73.

  9 He played his game: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 118.

  10 mysterious bu
siness deals: KV 2/845.

  11 In time of war: KV 2/848.

  12 The Germans may: KV 2/847.

  13 Missing you terribly: KV 2/846.

  14 degenerating in prison: KV 2/848.

  15 which makes for much: KV 2/847.

  16 submitting to her: KV 2/1067.

  17 He is by temperament: KV 2/848.

  18 some sort of decoration: KV 2/847.

  19 I am still satisfied: KV 2/845.

  20 extremely pleased: KV 2/847.

  21 like whores on: Dusko Popov, Spy/Counterspy (New York, 1974), p. 109.

  22 in this business: KV 2/847.

  23 advised it was: KV 2/856.

  24 If this is Upper Silesia: Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life (London, 2004), p. 198.

  25 to take revenge: KV 2/856.

  26 I know too much: KV 2/847.

  27 If you are caught: KV 2/859.

  28 He is very pro-British: KV 2/847.

  29 not as confident as: KV 2/848.

  30 virile telegraphese: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 17.

  31 I am beginning: Levine, Operation Fortitude, p. 126.

  32 He was in a complete: KV 2/848.

  33 Heartiest congratulations: Levine, Operation Fortitude, p. 138.

  34 The actual cash: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 16.

  Chapter 7: Popov Goes Shopping

  1 Popov is a clever: KV 2/846.

  2 For the moment: Dusko Popov, Spy/Counterspy (New York, 1974), p. 112.

  3 greatest spy round-up: Russell Miller, Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War’s Most Extraordinary Double Agent (London, 2005), p. 94.

  4 His first innings: KV 2/849.

  5 Hoover obviously only: Ewen Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra (London, 1977), p. 89.

  6 The mistake we made: Joshua Levine, Operation Fortitude (London, 2011), p. 146.

  7 The questionnaire indicated: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 82.

  8 gold-digger: Miller, Codename Tricycle, p. 98.

  9 His financial behaviour: KV 2/ 850.

  10 Tricycle should have: KV 2/849.

  11 found him depressed: Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra, p. 92.

  12 Berlin suspected Tricycle: KV 2/860.

  13 a larger sum in dollars: KV 2/850.

  14 to maintain him: KV 2/849.

  15 Popov has been totally: Miller, Codename Tricycle, p. 132.

  16 I need not repeat: KV 2/850.

  17 entertaining, social life: KV 2/850.

  18 razor-keen mind: Fiona Agassiz (Wilson’s daughter), interview by the author, May 18, 2011.

  19 failed to produce any: KV 2/850.

  20 His chances were nothing: Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra, p. 92.

  21 an enormous number: KV 2/850.

  22 the greatest instance: Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra, p. 92.

  23 Will telephone office: KV 2/849.

  24 stiff in manner: KV 2/850.

  25 You send me there: Popov, Spy/Counterspy, p. 184.

  26 We did all we could: KV 2/851.

  27 embezzled: KV 2/850.

  28 Berlin are stupid: KV 2/851.

  29 might make a scene: KV 2/850.

  Chapter 8: The Great Game

  1 in enormous quantities: KV 2/72.

  2 tiny, vivacious: Roman Garby-Czerniawski, The Big Network (London, 1961), p. 126.

  3 The plan was that: Mathilde-Lily Carré, I Was the Cat (London, 1960), pp. 137–38.

  4 a couple of pairs: Ibid., p. 143.

  5 Anglo-Saxon hypocrisy: Ibid., p. 157.

  6 Her guilt is the greater: KV 2/72.

  7 hell-bent on chopping: Christopher Harmer to Hugh Astor, October 28, 1992. Collection of Robert Astor.

  8 throw the case away: KV 2/72.

  9 Roman Czerniawski had: Joshua Levine, Operation Fortitude: The Story of the Spy Operation That Saved D-Day (London, 2011), p. 175.

  Chapter 9: The Flock

  1 one of the most: Nigel West, “High Society Spy,” Mail on Sunday, May 7, 1995.

  2 carried out to the: KV 2/2098.

  3 Mr. Palmer: Ibid.

  4 I chose the name: West, “High Society Spy.”

  5 remarkable talent: Tomás Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day (London, 2004), p. 77.

  6 absolute loyalty: Ibid., p. 78.

  7 thoroughly undesirable: Ibid., p. 318.

  8 to swamp the: Ibid., p. 69.

  9 I do not wish to end: Ibid., p. 95.

  10 in as much confusing: Ibid., p. 69.

  11 The greater the work: Ibid., p. 71.

  12 the fanatical loyalty: Ibid., p. 78.

  13 temperamental genius: Ibid., p. 70.

  14 Why have I been made: Ibid., p. 90.

  15 who seldom or never: Michael Howard, Strategic Deception in the Second World War (London, 1995), p. 12.

  16 the possible uses: T. A. Robertson to Major H. Petaval, June 24, 1943, CAB 154/35 (TNA).

  17 Years of breeding: KV 4/10.

  18 It was positively: Emily Wilson, “The War in the Dark: The Security Service and the Abwehr 1940–1944” (PhD thesis, Cambridge University, 2003), p. 169.

  19 accent: KV 4/10.

  Chapter 10: True Agent, False Agent, Double Agent

  1 the idea there might: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 59.

  2 reasonably certain: Michael Howard, Strategic Deception in the Second World War (London, 1995), p. 20.

  3 powerful weapon: KV 4/70.

  4 fill the German files: Ewen Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra (London, 1977), p. 102.

  5 It was always: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 72.

  6 The enemy is: Emily Wilson, “The War in the Dark: The Security Service and the Abwehr 1940–1944” (PhD thesis, Cambridge University, 2003), p. 174.

  7 It is always impossible: KV 3/7.

  8 the Nazis are very: KV 2/1067.

  9 The very few really: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 152.

  10 the most highly polished: Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (London, 2004), p. 185.

  11 prepare deception: Ibid., p. 189.

  12 We had an instrument: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 108.

  13 lingering malady: Ibid., p. 119.

  14 I fulfil my duty: Tomás Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day (London, 2004), p. 103.

  15 Your last reports: Ibid., p. 104.

  16 The success was not: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 111.

  17 the team was distinctly: Ibid., p. 126.

  18 If the agents: Ibid., p. 72.

  19 an older, wiser: Christopher Harmer to Hugh Astor, October 28, 1992. Collection of Robert Astor.

  20 What may appeal to: KV 2/1067.

  21 The case officer: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 22.

  22 most careful psychological: Ibid., p. 23.

  23 We were playing: Ibid., p. 14.

  24 Gonorrhoea expert: KV 2/850.

  25 only a well-kept record: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 28.

  26 a truly formidable size: Ibid., p. 68.

  27 Tangle within tangle: Winston Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures (London, 1991), p. 55.

  28 could not claim: KV 4/70.

  29 on seeing some: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, March 10, 1943.

  30 In all, 126 spies: KV 4/83.

  31 seen more detailed: Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (London, 2009), p. 292.

  32 Why don’t you: KV 4/83.

  33 very competent: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 123.

  34 no evidence of any: KV 2/2098.

  35 We took great care: Nigel West, “High Society Spy,” Mail on Sunday, May 7, 1995.

  36 I hope you won’t: KV 2/2098.

  37 Tank production retarded: KV 2/3639.

  38 Money must be sent: KV 2/2098.

  39 a glowing account: Masterman, Doubl
e Cross System, p. 9.

  40 the British had: West, “High Society Spy.”

  41 we can in some: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 9.

  42 He has apparently: KV 2/2098.

  43 They had studied: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 145.

  44 sparingly: KV 2/72.

  45 Every now and then: Joshua Levine, Operation Fortitude: The Story of the Spy Operation That Saved D-Day (London, 2011), p. 31.

  46 Almost certainly Brutus: KV 2/72.

  47 As confidence grew: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 146.

  48 threw his weight about: KV 2/72.

  49 threatened the extinction: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 146.

  50 any patriotic Pole: KV 2/72.

  Chapter 11: Cockade

  1 perhaps the highest-grade: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, June 5, 1943.

  2 The one-man band: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 146.

  3 Garbo himself works on: KV 4/83.

  4 hysterical, spoilt and selfish: Tomás Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day (London, 2004), pp. 327–34.

  5 read her the Riot Act: Diaries of Guy Liddell, June 22, 1943.

  6 outburst of jealousy: Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day, pp. 327–34.

  7 considerable comfort: Russell Miller, Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War’s Most Extraordinary Double Agent (London, 2005), p. 163.

  8 Please try to be ¼: KV 2/853.

  9 undoubtedly be an easier: KV 2/854.

  10 Your writing is wonderful: KV 2/853.

  11 humour and spirit: Dusko Popov, Spy/Counterspy (New York, 1974), p. 193.

  12 Everyone, the Germans included: Ibid., p. 223.

  13 realised that Germany: KV 2/851.

  14 The Germans regard: KV 2/853.

  15 We must seek to take: KV 2/854.

  16 the shabbiest and coldest: KV 2/851.

  17 The one thing that: KV 2/853.

  18 his desire to do: KV 2/851.

  19 he was ready to: KV 2/853.

  20 white silk shirts: KV 2/846.

  21 Tricycle is continuing: KV 2/853.

  22 Every Double Cross: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 24.

  23 invasion questions are no: KV 2/854.

  24 in his best mood: KV 2/853.

  25 taken his girlfriends to: KV 2/854.

  26 hospital arrangements: KV 2/3639.

  27 I gather some: CAB 154/35.

  28 It was an inspiring: Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (London, 2004), p. 488.

 

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