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by Gordon Corera


  82 Video of Philby being interviewed at the press conference can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2A2g-qRIaU

  83 Knightley, Philby: KGB Masterspy, p. 198

  84 National Archives PREM 111/2077 and ADM 1/29241

  85 National Archives PREM 111/2077; although Peter Wright (Spycatcher, p. 73) claims a bugging operation at Claridge’s did take place

  86 Elliott, With my Little Eye, p. 23

  87 Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy, Heinemann, London, 1995, p. 159

  88 National Archives PREM 11/2077

  89 Robert Rhodes James, Anthony Eden, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1986, p. 436

  90 Anthony Eden, Full Circle, Cassell, London, 1960, p. 365

  91 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 347

  92 National Archives ADM 1/29240

  93 ‘Russian says he killed Cold War UK diver to prevent explosion on ship’, BBC Monitoring, 16 November 2007. The account remains unverified and previous explanations included Crabb running out of air or becoming caught up in the propeller of the ship

  94 The Heart of the Matter, BBC TV, 22 September 1985

  95 Bower, Perfect English Spy, pp. 165–6

  96 Quoted in George Blake, No Other Choice, Jonathan Cape, London, 1990, p. 168

  97 Verrier, Through the Looking Glass, p. 4

  98 Percy Cradock, Know your Enemy, John Murray, London, 2002, p. 117

  99 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 186; Young’s comments in The Heart of the Matter, BBC TV, 22 September 1985

  100 W. Scott Lucas, Divided We Stand, Hodder, London, 1991, p. 195

  101 Private information

  102 Bower, Perfect English Spy, pp. 192 and 201; Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in Europe and the West, Allen Lane, London, 2005, p. 148

  103 George Kennedy Young, Who is my Liege? Gentry Books, London, 1972, pp. 77 and 79

  104 Chester Cooper, The Lion’s Last Roar, Harper & Row, New York, 1978, p. 70

  105 Cradock, Know your Enemy, p. 111

  106 George Kennedy Young, Masters of Indecision, Methuen, London, 1962, p. 28

  107 Lucas, Divided We Stand, p. 193; obituary of John McGlashan, Daily Telegraph, 10 September 2010

  108 Peter Hennessy, The Prime Minister, Penguin, London, 2000, p. 232

  109 Cooper, Lion’s Last Roar, pp. 178 and 211–12

  110 Hennessy, Prime Minister, p. 226

  111 G. K. Young, Subversion and the British Riposte, Ossian Publishers, Glasgow, 1984, p. 146

  112 Cooper, Lion’s Last Roar, p. 212

  113 Paul Gorka, Budapest Betrayed, Oak Tree Books, Wembley, 1986, pp. 124–7

  114 Cavendish, Inside Intelligence, pp. 90–1; interview with Anthony Cavendish

  115 The Clandestine Service Historical Series – Hungary vol. II External Operations 1946–1955, written May 1972 and classified Secret, declassified March 2005, available through the National Security Archive, George Washington University

  116 De Silva, Sub Rosa, p. 123

  117 Hennessy, Prime Minister, p. 243

  118 Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, p. 132

  119 De Silva, Sub Rosa, p. 123

  120 Cavendish, Inside Intelligence, p. 98

  121 Felix, The Spy and his Masters, pp. 13–15; Peter Hennessy, The Secret State, Penguin, London, 2002, pp. 36–7

  122 Young, Masters of Indecision, pp. 20–1

  123 Michael Smith, The Spying Game, Politico’s, London, 2003, p. 197

  124 Anatoly Golitsyn’s unpublished memoir

  125 Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1968, p. 39

  126 Interview with Anthony Cavendish; Cavendish, Inside Intelligence, pp. 119 and 138

  127 Interview with Anthony Cavendish

  128 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 293

  129 Knightley, Philby: KGB Masterspy, p. 211

  130 Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1995, p.376

  131 Nicholas Elliott, Never Judge a Man by his Umbrella, Michael Russell, Salisbury, 1991, p. 188

  132 Eleanor Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 46

  133 Elliott, Never Judge a Man, p. 188

  134 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 296

  135 The conversation has been reconstructed from different sources. Philby’s account is in Borovik, Philby Files, pp. 3 and 344. The MI6 end, which may or may not be more likely to be truthful since it is based on the recordings, comes from Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 297, and Elliott’s final line is also quoted in Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason, Coronet, London, 1980, p. 465

  136 Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 435

  137 Ibid., p. 436

  138 Borovik, Philby Files, p. 346. There are many discrepancies between Philby’s account and that of his former employers. Philby does not mention the second meeting and the partial confession and says his signal to the Soviets came on the first night rather than the second

  139 National Archives FO 953/1697; Philby, The Spy I Loved, pp. 2–4

  140 Knightley, Philby: KGB Masterspy, p. 219

  141 Philby, The Spy I Loved, p. 176

  142 Knightley, Philby: KGB Masterspy, p. 254

  143 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 304

  144 Derek Bristow, A Game of Moles, Little, Brown, London, 1993; Knightley, Philby: KGB Masterspy

  145 Richard Deacon, C: A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield, Macdonald, London, 1984, p. 140; Bristow, Game of Moles, p. xi

  146 Wright, Spycatcher, p. 194

  147 Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, pp. 153 and 262

  148 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 132

  149 John Bruce Lockhart in ‘The Role of the Intelligence Services in the Second World War’, seminar held 9 November 1994, Institute of Contemporary British History, 2003, http://www.ccbh.ac.uk/ witness_intelligence_index.php, p.29

  150 Private information

  151 Anthony Cave Brown, The Secret Servant, Sphere, London, 1989, p. 720

  152 John le Carré’s introduction to Page et al., Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation, p. 27

  153 John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Sceptre, London, 2009, p. 406

  154 Phillip Knightley, The Second Oldest Profession, W. W. Norton, New York, 1987, p. 271

  155 Knightley, Philby: KGB Masterspy, p. 259

  156 Malcolm Muggeridge quoted in Boyle, Climate of Treason, p. 502

  CHAPTER 3: A RIVER FULL OF CROCODILES – MURDER IN THE CONGO

  1 Unless otherwise indicated all material about Daphne Park comes from an interview by the author in 2009

  2 Information compiled for Baroness Park’s memorial service; Caroline Alexander, ‘Vital Powers’, New Yorker, 30 January 1989

  3 National Archives FO 371/14665; ‘Who Killed Lumumba?’, BBC Correspondent, 21 October 2000, transcript available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/ programmes/correspondent/transcripts/974745.txt

  4 National Archives DO 35/8804, Africa: The Next Ten Years, May 1959, memo originally drawn up at request of Foreign Secretary but distributed to the Cabinet, 2 July 1959

  5 National Archives PREM 11/2585. The memo is dated 11 December 1959 and was most likely written by John Bruce Lockhart, Controller for the Middle East and Africa

  6 Ibid.

  7 Interview with Baroness Park

  8 Comment of not being sexy from author interview; latter comment about appearance from Rachel Sylvester, ‘A licence to kill? Oh heavens, no!’, Daily Telegraph, 24 April 2003

  9 Sylvester, ‘A licence to kill? Oh heavens, no!’

  10 John Whitwell, British Agent, William Kimber, London, 1966, p. 169

  11 John Bruce-Lockhart quoted in Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949, Bloomsbury, London, 2010, p.598

  12 Quoted in Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy, Heinemann, London, 1995, p. 224

  13 National Archives DO 35/8804, Africa: The Next Ten Years, May 1959, memo originally drawn up at request of Foreign Secretary but
distributed to the Cabinet, 2 July 1959; Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 220

  14 Jeffery, MI6, p. 678

  15 Interview with Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former Ambassador to Moscow, for BBC Radio 4, 2009

  16 The conversation is recalled by Daphne Park. She did not name Scott, but details of his time in the Congo are in obituary of Sir Ian Scott, Daily Telegraph, 11 March 2002, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ news/ obituaries/1387342/ Sir-Ian- Scott.html

  17 Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost, Macmillan, London, 1999; Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, Fourth Estate, London, 2000, p. 46

  18 Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost, p. 301; Georges Abi-Saab, The United Nations Operation in the Congo 1960–1964, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978, p. 6

  19 Marie-Françoise Allain, The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene, The Bodley Head, London, 1983, p. 101

  20 National Archives FO 371/146630

  21 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV: Africa, p. 263

  22 ‘Who Killed Lumumba?’, BBC Correspondent, 21 October 2000

  23 Ian Scott, Tumbled House: The Congo at Independence, Oxford University Press, London, 1969, p. 90

  24 National Archives FO 371/146635, Note from Ian Scott, 5 July 1960

  25 Ludo de Witte, The Assassination of Lumumba, Verso, London, 2001, p. 2; Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost, p. 301

  26 ‘Who Killed Lumumba?’, BBC Correspondent, 21 October 2000

  27 National Archives FO 371/146635

  28 Scott, Tumbled House, p. 109

  29 Larry Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone, PublicAffairs, New York, 2007, p. xiii

  30 Ibid., p. xv

  31 Richard Beeston, ‘Old Memories of Chaos in the Congo Stirred Up’, The Times, 16 November 1996

  32 National Archives PREM 11/2883; Harold Macmillan, Pointing the Way, Macmillan, London, 1972, p. 263

  33 National Archives PREM 11/2585

  34 Georges Abi-Saab. The United Nations Operation in the Congo 1960–1964, p. 21

  35 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, p. 574

  36 Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, p. 61

  37 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, p. 88

  38 Kenneth Young, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, J. M. Dent, London, 1970, p. 125

  39 Brian Urquhart, ‘The Tragedy of Lumumba’, New York Review of Books, 4 October 2001

  40 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960 vol. XIV, p. 294; Charles Cogan, Avoiding the Breakup: The US-UN intervention in the Congo, 1960–1965, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Case Program

  41 Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World, Allen Lane, London, 2005, p. 426

  42 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 221

  43 National Archives CAB 128/34, Cabinet minutes, 19 July 1960

  44 Douglas Dillon testifying before the Church Committee, 2 September 1975, p. 24

  45 National Archives FO 371/146639

  46 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, pp. 259 and 23

  47 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, p. 373

  48 4 August 1960 diary entry quoted in Macmillan, Pointing the Way, pp. 264–5

  49 National Archives FO 371/146701

  50 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, p. 23

  51 Ibid., p. 47

  52 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, p. 426

  53 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, p. 48

  54 Revealed by Soviet spy Oleg Penkovsky, Meeting #14, p. 14, declassified and available at www.cia.gov

  55 Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, p. 66

  56 Church Committee Report; Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, p. 338

  57 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, p. 356

  58 Frank Carlucci who served in the US Embassy in the Congo during the crisis is quoted making these comments in Cogan, Avoiding the Breakup

  59 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, p. 132

  60 Urquhart, ‘Tragedy of Lumumba’

  61 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, pp. 66 and 85

  62 Untitled (Believe Congo experiencing classic communist effort), CIA cable, 18 August 1960, declassified and available www. cia.gov

  63 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, pp. 421–2

  64 Ibid., p. 424

  65 Madeleine G. Kalb, ‘The CIA and Lumumba’, New York Times, 2 August 1981; Martin Kettle, ‘President “ordered murder” of Congo leader’, Guardian, 10 August 2000

  66 Peter Grose, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1994, p. 502; Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: Interim Report, 1975, hereafter known as the Church Committee Report, http://www.history-matters.com/ archive/contents/church/contents_church_reports_ir.htm

  67 Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Allen Lane, London, 2007, pp. 162–3; Church Committee Report

  68 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, pp. 63–8

  69 Ibid., pp. 77–84

  70 De Witte, Assassination of Lumumba, p. 27

  71 Scott, Tumbled House, p. 78

  72 National Archives CAB 128/34, Cabinet minutes, 15 September 1960

  73 Bower, Perfect English Spy, pp. 222–3

  74 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, p. 85

  75 Scott, Tumbled House, p. 81

  76 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, p. 528

  77 Ibid., pp. 511 and 528

  78 Ibid., p. 497

  79 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, p. 94

  80 Grose, Gentleman Spy, p. 392; Ted Gup, ‘The Coldest Warrior’, Washington Post, 16 December 2001

  81 Church Committee Report

  82 Ibid.

  83 The Interview, BBC World Service, 1 January 2009

  84 CIA cable to headquarters from Leopoldville, cited in Church Committee Report

  85 Church Committee Report

  86 Description from ibid.

  87 Ibid.

  88 Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, p. 495

  89 Quoted in D.R. Thorpe, Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan, Chatto & Windus, London, 2010, p. 484

  90 National Archives FO 371/146646

  91 National Archives FO 371/146650

  92 National Archives PREM 11/3188 includes a top-secret memo on concerns that Nkrumah and Egypt would declare an African high command in the Congo

  93 Daphne Park recounted the story in ‘Licensed to kill?’, Ian Fleming Centenary Lecture, Royal Society of Literature, London, 12 May 2008

  94 De Witte, Assassination of Lumumba, pp. 71 and 83

  95 Church Committee Report; Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, vol. XIV, p. 503

  96 De Witte, Assassination of Lumumba, p. 53

  97 Abi-Saab, United Nations Operation in the Congo, 1960–1964, p. 91

  98 ‘Who Killed Lumumba?’, BBC Correspondent, 21 October 2000

  99 Ibid.; De Witte, Assassination of Lumumba, p. 57; Urquhart, ‘Tragedy of Lumumba’

  100 National Archives FO 371/146779

  101 Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo, pp. 128–9

  102 Interview with Charles Cogan, who later succeeded Devlin in the Congo

  103 13 January 1961, declassified cable available www.cia.gov

  104 De Witte, Assassination of Lumumba, pp. 95–7

  105 Ibid., p. 79; ‘Who Killed Lumumba?’, BBC Correspondent, 21 October 2000; Cogan, Avoiding the Breakup

  106 ‘Who Killed Lumumba?’, BBC Correspondent, 21 October 2000.

  107 Richard Beeston, Looking for Trouble, Tauris Parke, London, 2006, p. 60

  108 De Witte, Assassination of Lumumba, p. xxiv

  109 Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, p. 79

  110 John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies, André Deutsch, London, 1978, p.105

  111 Devlin, Chief of Station Congo, p. 225
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  112 Stockwell, In Search of Enemies, p. 136

  113 Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, p. 3

  114 Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, p. 303

  115 Gup, ‘The Coldest Warrior’

  116 Private information; John Colvin, Twice around the World, Leo Cooper, London, 1991, p. 69

  117 Sylvester, ‘A licence to kill? Oh heavens, no!’

  118 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 351

  CHAPTER 4: MOSCOW RULES

  1 Meeting #1 London, 20 April 1961, transcript declassified by CIA and available at www.cia.gov

  2 Clarence Ashley, CIA Spymaster, Pelican, Gretna, 2004, p. 110

  3 Jerrold L. Schecter and Peter S. Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, Macmillan, New York, 1992, p. 20

  4 ‘Reported Provocation Attempt’, declassified CIA communication, 30 December 1960, available at www.cia.gov

  5 Greville Wynne, Wynne and Penkovsky, Corgi, London, 1984, p. 27. The MI6 man is named as Franks in Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World

  6 Wynne wrote a number of books about his life but by far his most revealing account is in an interview with Anthony Clare, In the Psychiatrist’s Chair, BBC Radio 4, Imperial War Museum 16196

  7 Quoted in Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 311

  8 National Archives FO 181/1155

  9 Wynne, Wynne and Penkovsky, p. 27

  10 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, pp. 150–1

  11 Wynne, Wynne and Penkovsky, p. 68

  12 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, p. 151

  13 Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy, Heinemann, London, 1995, p. 274

  14 National Archives WO 208/3465

  15 Peter Hennessy, Having It So Good, Penguin, London, 2006, p. 318

  16 John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Sceptre, London, 2009, p. 228

  17 Blake: The Confession, BBC Radio 4, 1 August 2009

  18 Ibid.; Bower, Perfect English Spy, pp. 264–5

  19 George Blake, No Other Choice, Jonathan Cape, London, 1990, p. 198

  20 Among those who remember deciphering the telegram was Daphne Park in the Congo

  21 Bill Harvey quoted in Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 269

  22 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 44

  23 Meeting #1

  24 This quotation is from Meeting #2, p. 20

  25 Meeting #1 and Meeting #2, p. 1

  26 Huw Dylan, ‘Britain and the Missile Gap’, Intelligence and National Security, volume 23, December 2008

  27 John Limond Hart, The CIA’s Russians, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2003, p. 88

 

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