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by Gordon Corera


  28 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 94

  29 Penkovsky Operation, Parts 3 and 4, Tapes 22 October 1966, declassified by CIA and available at www.cia.gov

  30 Ibid.

  31 Meeting #4, 23 April 1961

  32 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, p. 191

  33 Meeting #1, p. 22

  34 Meeting #5, 24 April 1961

  35 Professor Stephen Kotkin, ‘Soviet Capitulation’, lecture at the London School of Economics, 20 May 2010

  36 Meeting #5

  37 Meeting #7

  38 Meeting #12

  39 Meeting #13

  40 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 272

  41 Ibid., p. 275

  42 The fact that it had never been done before was mentioned by MI6 station chief Gervase Cowell 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.45

  43 Interview with Baroness Park

  44 ‘Baroness Park of Monmouth: Lives Remembered’, The Times, 3 April 2010

  45 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, p. 197

  46 Penkovsky Operation, Parts 3 and 4, Tapes 22 October 1966

  47 Meeting #16

  48 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 175

  49 Ibid., p. 178

  50 Obituary of Janet Chisholm, Daily Telegraph, 6 August 2004

  51 Gordon Barrass, The Great Cold War, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2009, p. 132

  52 Christopher Moran, ‘Fleming and CIA Director Allen Dulles’ in Robert G. Weiner, B. Lynn Whitfield and Jack Becker (eds), James Bond and Popular Culture, Cambridge Schools Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010; Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1995, pp. 383 and 367

  53 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003P0F03BerlinCrisis07251961.htm

  54 ASSESSMENT OF [BLANK], 13 July 1961, declassified and available at www.cia.gov

  55 Richard Deacon, C: A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield, Macdonald, London, 1984, p. 131

  56 Meeting #15

  57 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, p. 224

  58 Meeting #19

  59 Penkovsky Operation, Parts 3 and 4, Tapes 22 October 1966

  60 Ibid.

  61 Hart, CIA’s Russians, p. 99

  62 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 217

  63 Bower, Perfect English Spy, pp. 272 and 277

  64 Wynne, Wynne and Penkovsky, pp. 128 and 131

  65 Ibid., p. 76

  66 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 221; Wynne, Wynne and Penkovsky, p. 140

  67 Penkovsky Operation, Parts 3 and 4, Tapes 22 October 1966

  68 See Chapter 7

  69 Penkovsky Operation, Parts 3 and 4, Tapes 22 October 1966

  70 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, p. 212

  71 Ibid., p. 211

  72 Ibid., p. 212; Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 262

  73 See, for instance, Meeting #4, p. 6

  74 Meeting #15, p. 5

  75 Meeting #35

  76 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 257. Wynne would receive $213,700 jointly from the CIA and MI6 after he was released from prison

  77 There is a note in the transcript reading: ‘There is no question that subject both wittingly and unwittingly can be most trying in his often capricious demands and handling him on the part of all concerned requires great patience even if understanding is not always possible.’ This appears to refer to Wynne, although it might refer to Penkovsky

  78 Meeting #36

  79 Peter Hennessy, The Secret State, Penguin, London, 2002, pp. 6–7

  80 Michael Herman quoted in ibid., p. 12

  81 National Archives CAB 159/34, Minutes of meeting of 29 September 1960

  82 Meeting #37

  83 Meetings #1 and #33 include discussions

  84 Meeting #33

  85 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 281

  86 Memorandum for the record, 11 January 1962 (misdated at top 1961), declassified and available at www.cia.gov

  87 See, for instance, CIA memo ‘Discussion between SR/COP, CSR/9, DCSR/9, (blank) Re: SR/COP’s European Trip February’, 6 February 1962

  88 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 292

  89 Bower, Perfect English Spy, pp. 398–9

  90 Translation of letter dated 10 April 1962, declassified by CIA and available at www.cia.gov

  91 Gervase Cowell in ‘The Role of the Intelligence Services in the Second World War’ seminar, p. 45

  92 Ibid.

  93 Ibid.

  94 Hart, CIA’s Russians, p. 119

  95 Ibid.

  96 See, for instance, Meeting #11,1 May 1961

  97 Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, Random House, New York, 1992

  98 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, pp. 334–6

  99 Ibid., p. 336

  100 Len Scott, ‘Espionage and the Cold War: Oleg Penkovsky and the Cuban Missile Crisis’, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 14, no. 3, Autumn 1999

  101 Profession of Intelligence, BBC Radio 4, 23 August 1981

  102 Hennessy, Secret State, p. 44

  103 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 341

  104 Tape No. 4, Friday afternoon 9 November 1962, declassified by CIA and available at www.cia.gov

  105 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, p. 234

  106 Joe Bulik in a 1998 interview published on the website of the National Security Archive, George Washington University

  107 Penkovsky case memorandum, 16 June 1963, declassified by CIA and available at www.cia.gov

  108 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 278

  109 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 409

  110 Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1990, pp. 393–4

  111 Fatal Encounter, BBC TV, 1991

  112 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy who Saved the World, p. 410

  113 2 November 1962, from Wynne, Wynne and Penkovsky, p. 9

  114 Ibid., p. 13

  115 Ibid., p. 41

  116 National Archives FO 181/1155; private information

  117 Memorandum for Chief SR Division from Joe Bulik, 10 May 1963, declassified by CIA and available at www.cia.gov

  118 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 286

  119 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy who Saved the World, p. 35

  120 Ibid., p. 361

  121 Frank Gibney (ed.), The Penkovsky Papers, Collins, London, 1965, p. 283

  122 Ibid., p. 110

  123 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 356

  124 Ibid., p. 358

  125 Gibney (ed.), Penkovsky Papers, p. 125

  126 Schecter and Deriabin, Spy Who Saved the World, p. 414

  127 Interview with Sir Gerry Warner for BBC Radio 4, 2009

  128 S-jak SZPIEG Case of Radio Operator Adam Kaczmarzyk, Polish TV documentary, 2004; The Times, 10 January 1969 and 8 August 1967, and additional private information

  129 Details of the Freed case and Dearlove’s role come from the Czech archives and the work of Prokop Tomek. The issue of the payments to Freed is covered in Chapter 9

  130 Martin L. Brabourne, ‘More on the Recruitment of Soviets’, Studies in Intelligence, vol. 9, Winter 1965, originally classified secret, declassified and available at www.cia.gov

  131 Wilhelm Marbes, ‘The Psychology of Treason’, in H. Bradford Westerfield (ed.), Inside CIA’s Private World, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995, p. 71

  132 Interview with Sir Colin McColl for BBC Radio 4, 2009

  CHAPTER 5: THE WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS

  1 The account of Golitsyn’s defection comes from the first volume of his unpublished memoir. It concurs closely with the account provided from the American side – for instance in David Wise, Molehunt, Random House, Ne
w York, 1992

  2 Friberg’s reaction is recounted in Wise, Molehunt, p. 3, and Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior, Simon & Schuster, London, 1991, p. 50

  3 Wise, Molehunt, p. 5

  4 Wise, ibid., says there was a security alert regarding a bomb and that Golitsyn was allowed to remain on the plane at his request

  5 Jerry D. Ennis, ‘Anatoli Golitsyn: Long Time CIA Agent?’, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 21, no. 1, February 2006, p. 32

  6 Richard Deacon, C: A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield, Macdonald, London, 1984, pp. 121 and 167

  7 Obituary of the Reverend Vivian Green, Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2005, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/ 1481995/The-Reverend- Vivian-Green.html

  8 Interview with Charles Allen for BBC Radio 4, 2009

  9 National Archives PREM 11/4463

  10 Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 68

  11 Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1990, p. 490

  12 Peter Wright in Spycatcher, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1987, and Tennent Bagley in Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, are both of this view

  13 Deacon, C: A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield, p. 190; Chapman Pincher, Treachery, Random House, New York, 2009, p. 571

  14 Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, London, 2009, p. 435

  15 Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, Macmillan, London, 2001, p. 451

  16 Anthony Blunt in his unpublished memoir held in the British Library and opened to the public in 2009

  17 Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 438

  18 Yuri Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, Headline, London, 1994, p. 43; Genrikh Borovik, The Philby Files, Little, Brown, London, 1994, p. 365

  19 Unless otherwise indicated, material regarding Stephen de Mowbray is drawn from an interview by the author

  20 Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason, Coronet, London, 1980, pp. 210 and 323

  21 Wright, Spycatcher, p. 54

  22 Ibid.

  23 Ibid., p. 243

  24 Ibid., p. 264

  25 Michael Shelden, Graham Greene: The Man Within, Heinemann, London, 1994, p. 41

  26 Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy, Heinemann, London, 1995, pp. 314–15

  27 Wright, Spycatcher, p. 170

  28 Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 506

  29 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 316

  30 Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 507

  31 Golitsyn unpublished memoir

  32 Jerrold L. Schecter and Peter S. Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, Macmillan, New York, 1992, p. 379

  33 Ibid., p. 390

  34 Wright, Spycatcher, p. 208

  35 Golitsyn, unpublished memoir

  36 Golitsyn, New Lies for Old, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1984, goes into more detail on this

  37 Yuri Nosenko speech to the CIA in 1998. Previously available as a podcast by the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, Alexandria. Also Bagley, Spy Wars

  38 John Limond Hart, The CIA’s Russians, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2003, p. 129

  39 Bagley, Spy Wars, p. 14

  40 Ibid., p. 88

  41 Ibid., p. 18

  42 Clarence Ashley, CIA Spymaster, Pelican, Gretna, 2004, p. 271

  43 Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 147

  44 Ibid., p. 149

  45 Richards J. Heuer, ‘Nosenko: Five Paths to Judgment’, in H. Bradford Westerfield (ed.), Inside CIA’s Private World, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995, p. 398

  46 Bagley, Spy Wars, p. 85

  47 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, p. 277

  48 Yuri Nosenko speech to the CIA

  49 Walter Pincus, ‘Yuri I. Nosenko, 81: KGB agent who defected to the U.S.’, Washington Post, 27 August 2008; Hart, CIA’s Russians, p. 144

  50 Bagley, Spy Wars, p. 216

  51 Hart, CIA’s Russians, p. 160

  52 Yuri Nosenko speech to the CIA

  53 Details taken from ibid.

  54 Pincus, ‘Yuri I. Nosenko, 81: KGB agent who defected to the U.S.’

  55 Heuer, ‘Nosenko: Five Paths to Judgment’, p. 383

  56 Ibid.

  57 References to this in ‘The Family Jewels’, p. 23, a CIA document which consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency’s charter. Declassified and available at www.cia.gov

  58 Ashley, CIA Spymaster, p. 284

  59 Warren Richey, ‘A cold-war case of CIA detention still echoes’, Christian Science Monitor, 8 January 2008; Bagley, Spy Wars

  60 Pincus, ‘Yuri I. Nosenko, 81: KGB agent who defected to the U.S.’

  61 Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 507

  62 Pincher, Treachery, p. 393

  63 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 338

  64 Robert M. Hathaway and Russell Jack Smith, ‘Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence’, p. 124, internal CIA publication, originally classified secret, available at www.cia.gov

  65 Wright, Spycatcher, p. 290; Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 511

  66 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 135

  67 Obituary of Andrew King, Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2002

  68 Obituary of Donald Prater, The Times, 12 September 2001

  69 Pincher, Treachery, p. 539

  70 John le Carré, ‘A Service known only by its failures’, Toronto Star, 3 May 1986

  71 The Times, 20 July 1984

  72 Barrie Penrose and Roger Courtiour, The Pencourt File, Secker & Warburg, London, 1978, p. 238

  73 Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 75

  74 See David Omand, Securing the State, Hurst, London, 2010, p. 252

  75 Chapman Pincher, The Truth about Dirty Tricks, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1991; and Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear!, Grafton, London 1992, p. 264.

  76 Hathaway and Smith, ‘Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence’, p. 101

  77 Haviland Smith quoted in Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Allen Lane, London, 2007, p. 326

  78 The officer was David Murphy: David Wise, Molehunt; David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, Harper & Row, New York, 1980, p. 199

  79 Wright, Spycatcher, p. 308

  80 Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 279

  81 Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, Allen Lane, London, 1999, pp. 242 and 477

  82 Mangold, Cold Warrior, p. 305

  83 Wise, Molehunt, p. 256

  84 See introduction to Heuer, ‘Nosenko: Five Paths to Judgment’

  85 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 372

  86 Pincher, Treachery, p. 545

  87 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 372

  88 Wright, Spycatcher, p. 378

  89 Penrose and Courtiour, Pencourt File, p. 321

  90 Ibid., p. 9

  91 Deacon, C: A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield, p. 251

  92 Le Carré, ‘A Service known only by its failures’

  93 John le Carré in the introduction to Alec Guinness, My Name Escapes Me, Penguin, London, 1997, p. viii

  94 Private information

  95 Dr Christopher R. Moran and Dr Robert Johnson, ‘In the Service of Empire: Imperialism and the British Spy Thriller 1901–1914’, Studies in Intelligence, vol. 54, no. 2, June 2010

  96 Bower, Perfect English Spy, p. 270

  97 Donald Rumsfeld speaking on weapons of mass destruction at a press conference in June 2002, http://www.defense.gov/ transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3490

  98 Heuer, ‘Nosenko: Five Paths to Judgment’, p. 412

  99 Wright, Spycatcher, p. 2

  100 Ibid., p. 3

  101 Letter to The Times, 18 July 1984; further letters relating to the subject on 19 July and editorial 23 July 1984

  102 De Mowbray first spoke out in the wake
of the authorised history of MI5. See Gordon Corera, ‘Former molehunter speaks out’, 26 January 2010, BBC News website, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8479807.stm

  103 In Treachery Chapman Pincher brings together all the evidence that he believes points to Hollis having been a Communist spy

  CHAPTER 6: COMPROMISING SITUATIONS

  1 Interview with Mikhail Lyubimov, Moscow 2009. Further material on Lyubimov’s time in London is drawn from Rufina Philby, Mikhail Lyubimov and Hayden Peake, The Private Life of Kim Philby, St Ermin’s Press, London, 1999, part 3; Alexander Norman, ‘Lunching with the Enemy’, in John le Carré, Sarratt and the Draper of Watford, Village Books, Sarratt, 1999; Mikhail Lyubimov, ‘London’, in Helen Womack (ed.), Undercover Lives, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998; David Leppard, ‘With smiles and cash’, Sunday Times, 19 February 1995

  2 Philby et al., Private Life of Kim Philby, p. 272

  3 Lyubimov, ‘London’, p. 158

  4 Ibid., pp. 158 and 165

  5 National Archives PREM 15/1935; Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, London, 2009, pp. 565–87; Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1987, pp. 49–51

  6 Anthony Courtney, Sailor in a Russian Frame, Johnson, London, 1968, p. 53

  7 Liddell Hart Archives, Papers of Anthony Courtney, GB99 KCLMA Courtney; Courtney, Sailor in a Russian Frame, p. 55

  8 Liddell Hart Archives, Papers of Anthony Courtney, GB99 KCLMA Courtney

  9 Courtney, Sailor in a Russian Frame, pp. 126–7

  10 National Archives PREM 13/483

  11 National Archives PREM 15/582

  12 Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, Allen Lane, London, 1999, p. 531

  13 National Archives PREM 15/582

  14 Liddell Hart Archives, Papers of Anthony Courtney, GB99 KCLMA Courtney

  15 National Archives CAB 129/113, The Radcliffe Tribunal on Vassall

  16 Andrew and Mitrokhin, Mitrokhin Archive, p. 531

  17 Ibid., p. 443

  18 The following account is drawn from John Vassall’s confession and police reports (National Archives CRIM 1/4003) and the report of the Radcliffe Tribunal on Vassall (National Archives CAB 129/113)

  19 National Archives CAB 129/113, Radcliffe Tribunal on Vassall

  20 National Archives CRIM 1/4003

  21 The case of the woman is mentioned in passing in National Archives CAB 129/113, Radcliffe Tribunal on Vassall

  22 ‘MP friends of ex-spy are still in public life’, The Times, 27 January 1975; Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, The KGB: The Inside Story, of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1990, p. 364

 

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