Art of Betrayal

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by Gordon Corera


  Philby, Litzi, 17–18, 19–20, 70

  Philby, Rufina, 244, 246

  Philby, St John, 72, 85–6

  Philip, Prince, 61

  Philpotts, Christopher, 205–6, 207, 208, 211

  Poland, 178, 269

  Pontecorvo, Bruno, 36

  Popov, Pyotr, 40, 137, 172, 187, 200, 201

  Portland, 233

  Portsmouth, 52, 77, 224

  Powell, Charles, 270, 277

  Powell, Colin, 373, 375, 376

  Powell, Jonathan, 362

  Powers, Gary, 136

  Prague, 46, 180 251, 320

  Prater, Donald, 206

  Prater, the, Vienna, 15

  Prenzlau, 25

  Private Eye, 226

  Proba, Operation, 226

  Profumo, John, 239

  Q (quartermaster for MI6), 126

  Q8, 321

  Queen Anne’s Gate, 138

  Queen Elizabeth, 190

  Quetta, 295

  Rabbani, Burhanuddin, 294

  Rahman, General Akhtar Abdur, 294

  ratlines, 32, 33

  Reagan, President, 131, 268, 269, 271, 272, 281, 282, 288, 306, 307

  Red Army, 10, 12, 13, 21, 27, 29, 31, 32, 36, 37, 45, 52, 145

  Red List, 164, 268

  Red River, 374

  Rennie, Sir John, 205, 211, 212

  Republican Guards, 378

  Revolutionary Command Council (Iraq), 353, 354, 379

  Rhodes, Cecil, 98

  Rhodesia, 131

  Richards, Francis, 331

  Riga, 53

  Rimington, Stella, 265

  Rob (MI6 officer), 253–4, 255

  Robber Barons, 76, 78, 177, 400

  Rodin, Nikola, 232

  Romania, 30

  Royal Engineers, 45

  Royal Horse Guards, 60

  Royal Navy, 51, 52

  Ruislip, 236

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 341, 382, 386

  Russia: pre-Soviet, 54, 290; post-Soviet, 317–18, 319–20, 394–6, 398, 399; see also Soviet Union

  Russian Embassy, London, 394

  Russian Foreign Intelligence Service see SVR

  Russian illegals, 232, 233, 237, 319, 395 see also Kroger, Helen; Kroger, Peter; Lonsdale, Gordon

  Ryan, Operation, 267–8

  Sabri, Naji, 381–2, 390

  Saddam Hussein see Hussein, Saddam

  St George’s Hotel, Beirut, 84

  St James’s, 60

  St Peter’s College, Oxford, 132

  Salang highway, 297

  SAS, 298, 338

  Sasha, 187, 201, 211

  satellite spying, 170

  Saudi Arabia, 311, 330, 345

  Sawers, John, 396–7, 400, 402

  Sayyaf, Abdul Rasul, 311

  Scarlett, John: early career, 258–9; and Gordievsky, 257, 259, 260, 261–2, 263, 267, 269; on the importance of intelligence in Cold War, 287; as station chief in Moscow, 318; expelled from Moscow, 319–20; rivalry with Dearlove, 329; becomes chair of Joint Intelligence Committee, 329–30; and 9/11 terrorist attacks, 330, 331; on torture, 342; on relationship with Americans, 342; and build-up to Iraq war, 357–8, 359, 360, 361, 362, 365, 366, 367, 370; and the failure to find WMD in Iraq, 387, 388; appointed as new Chief of MI6, 393; in role of Chief, 393–5; Sawers takes over from, 397; at memorial service for Daphne Park, 402; brief references, 3, 328

  Scheuer, Mike, 313, 333, 343

  Schőnbrunn barracks, Vienna, 10, 24, 47

  School of Oriental and African Studies, 232

  Schroen, Gary, 336

  Scotland, 299

  Scott, Ian, 103–4, 106, 107, 111, 114, 121, 125

  Scott, Nicholas, 221

  Second World War, 15, 28–9, 59–60, 61, 188, 191, 194, 223, 264, 401

  Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) see MI6

  Secret Service Bureau, 20

  Semmering Pass, 32

  Seoul, 48

  September 11 terrorist attacks, 2, 7, 330–5, 354

  Serov, General Ivan, 159, 160, 176

  Serov, Svetlana, 159–60

  Shergold, Harold (Shergy): career, 141–2; and Blake, 142–3; and Penkovsky, 4, 141, 143, 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 160, 163, 164, 165, 167, 173; and professionalism, 141–2, 177–8, 259, 329; and successes of Beneficiary and Freed, 181 and molehunts, 198, 199, 207, 218; and Scarlett, 258; brief references, 179, 180 402

  Sierra Leone, 15

  Sinclair, John, 63, 78

  Sirte, 383

  SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) see MI6

  SMERSH, 37, 41

  Smiley, David, 60–1, 62, 63, 65

  Smiley, George (fictional character), 4, 5, 142, 189, 214, 215

  Smith, H. F. T., 125

  Smollett, Peter, 14, 15, 19, 42

  Sniper, 235, 236

  Sofia, 46

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 249, 251

  Somerville, 133

  South Africa, 94

  South America, 32

  Southampton, 232

  Soviet Embassy: Copenhagen, 251, 252, 253, 255; London, 148, 220, 222, 225, 232, 235, 240, 260, 261, 272; Mexico City, 202; Paris, 283; Washington, 285

  ‘Soviet Perceptions of Nuclear Warfare’ (briefing), 282

  Soviet Trade Delegation, 222, 224, 241

  Soviet Union: activities in Vienna, 12–13, 35, 36, 40, 41–4; Smollet passes information to, 15; recruitment of Philby by, 18–19; contacts made by Cavendish are recalled to, 26; Western powers lack intelligence from inside, 28, 29; Western fears of invasion by, 29; Young organises retrieval of photographic reconnaissance of, 29–30; defections after the war, 32, 70; and German scientists, 34–5, 36; Park’s attitude to, 36; and émigré groups, 37, 42; defection of Deriabin, 43; communications intercepted by Vienna Tunnel, 45–6, 47; Blake betrays existence of Vienna Tunnel to, 47–9; Courtney in, 52; covert operations against, 53–63, 64–5, 67, 76–8; Philby passes secrets to, 63–6, 67–8, 73–4; Burgess and Maclean escape to, 69; and Nasser, 79; and Suez Crisis, 81; and Hungarian uprising, 82–3, 84; Philby questioned about and confesses to working for, 87–8; Philby escapes to, 88–9; Angleton’s paranoia about, 90; and Africa, 98, 99, 108, 113–14, 115, 116, 118, 120, 121, 132; betrayed by Penkovsky see Penkovsky, Oleg; Penkovsky provides insight into thinking of leaders of, 157–8; Blake confesses to working for, 142–3; Cuban Missile Crisis, 2, 6, 170, 171, 198, 223, 267, 375; Wynne captured and taken to, 173–4; trial of Wynne and Penkovsky in, 175–6; Beneficiary (Kaczmarzyk) works as spy against, 178–9; Freed (Kroča) works as spy against, 180 betrayed by Golitsyn see Golitsyn, Anatoly; betrayed by Nosenko see Nosenko, Yuri; CIA molehunts paralyse operations against, 209–10; subversive operations against Britain, 219–42; Philby’s life in, 242–7; betrayed by Gordievsky see Gordievsky, Oleg; Scarlett’s career in, 258–9; Operation Ryan, 268–9; fears about Western intentions, 268–9, 271, 282; Gordievsky in danger in, 248–9, 273–4; Gordievsky escapes from, 6, 274–80; Gordievsky’s information brings about changes in Western perceptions of, 270, 271, 272, 281–2; Gorbachev visits Britain, 272; MI6 is sceptical about Gorbachev and his reforms, 283–4; CIA penetrated by, 284–6; and the value of intelligence, 287–8; and Afghanistan, 291, 292, 295, 297, 299, 300, 302–3, 304, 306, 307, 308–9; end of, 288–9, 315; Blake comments on life in, 397; see also KGB; Moscow

  Special Branch, 18, 230, 236, 241

  Special Group, 118

  Special Operations Executive, 27, 33, 59, 60, 61, 95, 401

  Special Security Organisation (SSO), 368

  Spedding, David, 327, 354

  Spetsnaz troops, 304

  Spooks, 344–5

  SSO (Special Security Organisation), 368

  Stalin, Joseph, 23, 28, 30, 41, 42, 49, 63, 66, 87, 186, 219, 288

  Stanley, Henry, 104

  Stanleyville, 97, 121, 122, 127

  Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative, 269, 281, 282, 288

  Stasi, 227–8

  State Department (US), 57, 114, 116, 137, 155

 
State Scientific and Technical Commission (Soviet Union), 138, 146, 224

  State Opera House, Vienna, 50

  StB (Czechoslovak security service), 11, 180 181

  Steers, Bob, 10, 11

  Stettin, 12

  Stevenson, Adlai, 375

  Stinger missile, 305–6, 312

  Stockholm, 186

  Stokes, Michael, 141, 151, 157, 163

  Stormie Seas (boat), 55, 61

  Stratford-upon-Avon, 190

  Straw, Jack, 331, 359, 360, 378, 383

  Sudan, 333

  Suez Crisis, 79–81, 83, 84, 91, 95, 392

  Sukarno, President, 80

  Sunday Telegraph, 221

  Sussex, 299

  SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service), 319, 396

  Switzerland, 24, 36

  Syria, 389

  Tajikistan, 336

  Tajiks, 294, 336

  Taliban, 311–12, 313, 335 337, 338, 339, 399

  Tanganyika, 94, 95

  Tenet, George, 332, 358, 359, 372, 373, 375, 382, 387, 393

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: ‘Ulysses’, 402

  terrorism, 7, 291, 326, 327–8, 345–52, 356, 359, 386, 394, 395, 398 see also September 11 terrorist attacks

  Thames House, 346, 347

  Thatcher, Margaret, 214, 256, 270, 272, 277, 281, 282, 292, 304, 305, 309

  Their Trade is Treachery (booklet), 239–40, 396

  Third Man, The, 20; screenplay for, 13–14, 15, 16, 20, 75, 132 30All, 33

  Thysville, 108, 128

  Times, The, 217

  Tirana, 63

  Tomlinson, Richard, 324–5

  Tora Bora, 338

  torture/mistreatment, 339–43, 352, 400

  Travellers Club, 384

  Treasury, 316

  Trefgarne, Elizabeth, 225

  Tremmel, Valeri, 42

  Trend, Lord, 213

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 74

  Trieste, 12

  Truman Doctrine, 56

  Truro, 190

  Trust, the, 54, 200

  Tshombe, Moise, 112, 113, 129

  Tudor-Hart, Edith, 18, 70, 208

  Turkey, 56, 70, 145

  Turner, Stansfield, 292–3

  Ukraine, 41, 63

  Unilever, 97

  Unison, 209

  United Nations, 113, 114, 118, 120, 121, 122, 127–8, 129, 309, 360, 373, 375, 376, 377, 378, 380, 381, 382, 397; General Assembly, 381; Security Council, 375, 382; weapons inspectors, 357, 359, 368, 376–7, 380, 382

  United States: lacks intelligence from within Soviet Union, 28; and defecting Soviet soldiers, 32; and German scientists, 34; and kidnappings in Vienna, 35; Operation Claptrap, 44; informed about Vienna Tunnel, 46; and Operation Gladio, 49; announcement of Truman Doctrine, 56; Marshall Plan, 56, 58; increase in covert action, 56–7, 57–8; and Albania, 57, 58, 62, 63, 65; Philby based in, 63–6; leaking of Philby’s name, 74; involved in removal of Mossadegh in Iran, 79; and Suez Crisis, 81–2, 84; and Hungarian uprising, 82, 83; informed about Philby’s betrayal, 88; relationship with Britain damaged by Philby’s betrayal, 91; involvement in the Congo through work of Devlin, 108, 110–11, 113, 114–15, 115–16, 117–19, 120, 121, 122–4, 126, 127, 128–9, 130, 131; Congress unearths CIA’s secret assassination programmes, 131; and Vietnam, 132, 293; Penkovsky betrays Soviets to see Penkovsky, Oleg; and Berlin, 158–9; Golitsyn in, 187–8, 190, 198, 199, 205; molehunts in, 187, 209–11; Nosenko gives information to, 200–1, 202; Nosenko in, 202–3; informed about molehunt in Britain, 204, 205; Soviet fears about, 268–9; and Gordievsky’s information, 270–1, 281–2; and Afghanistan, after Soviet invasion, 291–2, 292–3, 295, 296, 300, 303, 304–5, 307. 308, 309, 310, 312–13; attempts to pressure Soviets on all fronts, 307; and Pakistan’s nuclear programme, 310–11; targeted by bin Laden, 312; experience of CIA in Congress, 323; focus on terrorist threat, 328; Dearlove builds close relationships in, 329, 358; September 11 terrorist attack on, 330–5; and Afghanistan, after 9/11, 336, 337, 338, 339; treatment of prisoners, 339, 340, 341, 342–3; not permitted to run unilateral operations in UK, 343; fears in, 356; and Iraq, 354, 355–6, 357, 358–9, 360, 362, 371–3, 374, 375–6, 377, 378–9, 380, 381–2, 388, 389; and Libya, 383–4; and post-Soviet Russia, 396; see also CIA; Washington

  UPI press agency, 82, 85

  U2 spy plane, 136, 170

  Uzbekistan, 336

  Varentsov, Marshal Sergei, 145, 146, 147, 149, 158, 162, 176

  Vassall, John, 190, 200, 228–31, 232, 238, 239

  Vauxhall Cross, 321–2, 353, 354, 365, 368, 383, 387, 390, 393, 395, 402

  Vienna, 8, 9–50, 70, 82, 83, 95, 157, 185, 192, 215, 266

  Vienna Tunnel, 45–7

  Vietnam, 132, 292, 293, 294, 309

  Virginia, 203

  Vladimir prison, 176

  Volkova, Zina, 224, 226

  V2 rockets, 34

  Walker, Peter, 221

  Walton, Eric, 61

  Warner, Gerry, 132–3, 178–9, 207, 217–18, 231, 281, 283, 291, 296, 317, 321, 398

  War Office, 70

  Warsaw, 178, 179, 207, 217, 233, 234, 235

  Warsaw Pact, 270

  Washington: organisational chart for Albanian operation, 59; Philby in, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69; impact of Philby’s betrayal felt in, 90, 91; and Congo crisis, 114–15, 118, 120; perceptions of missile gap, 147; and Penkovsky’s information about missiles, 147, 170; Oldfield in, 159, 211; Golitsyn arrives in, 187; hunt for traitor begins in, 187; Golitsyn returns to, 198, 199; Nosenko discussed in, 201; informed about MI6 investigations, 204; Rennie in, 205; Gordievsky’s warnings have impact in, 271; and Afghanistan, after Soviet invasion, 291, 294, 296, 300, 304, 305, 312–13; Dearlove becomes head of MI6 station in, 329; visit of British offials after 9/11, 331–4; and Afghanistan, after 9/11, 337, 339; and Iraq, 355, 356, 359, 375, 376, 377, 379, 382, 385, 387; Dearlove goes to, 358–9; Allen and Dearlove discuss Libyan offer in, 383; Dearlove at farewell dinner in, 393; brief references, 6, 36, 56, 57, 396

  Washington Post, 209

  waterboarding, 341, 347

  Watergate scandal, 211

  Waterloo Bridge Road, 236

  weapons of mass destruction (WMD): and Iraq, 353–4, 356–7, 359, 360–2, 363–83, 385–9, 391; and Libya, 383–4; proliferation of, 327, 329, 394

  Welles, Orson, 20

  West Berlin, 238

  Westminster Abbey, 402–3

  Westminster Hall, 225–6

  Westminster School, 73

  White, Dick, 69, 78, 86, 87, 89, 121, 133, 142, 143, 153, 154, 160, 167, 177, 182, 194, 195–6, 197, 200, 204, 212, 215

  Whitehall, 28, 60, 80, 81, 91, 154, 213, 284, 315, 329, 368, 393, 394, 397–8

  White House, 118, 157, 272, 282, 314, 354, 358, 372, 376

  White Russians, 37, 145

  Williams, Valerie, 155

  Wilson, Charlie, 294, 304, 306, 338

  Wilson, Harold, 208–9, 210, 212, 213–14, 225

  Wilson, Joe, 376

  Wilson, Sir Richard, 334, 360

  Wisner, Frank, 57, 59, 65, 83, 90

  WMD see weapons of mass destruction

  Woodhouse, Admiral, 178

  Wormwood Scrubs, 244

  World is Not Enough, The, 322

  Worsthorne, Peregrine, 221

  Wright, Peter, 193–4, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 204, 205, 206, 209, 210, 213, 216–17, 230, 235, 236, 266; Spycatcher, 216–17

  Wynne, Greville, 138–40, 148, 149, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 160–1, 163–4, 166, 169, 172, 173–4175-6, 224, 238

  Yemen, 397

  Young, George Kennedy, 29–30, 31, 36, 44, 62, 76, 78–9, 79–80, 81, 83–4, 85, 90, 93, 102, 115, 192, 209, 326, 399

  Yousaf, Mohammed, 307, 308, 310

  Yugoslavia, 32, 199

  Zia-ul-Haq, President, 294

  Zog, King, 59

  Zvenigorod, 276, 280

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