Philby had lived a double life for decades ... An extraordinary story of espionage, murder and intimate betrayal. ibid.
Philby like Elliott was now a member of the most exclusive club in the country. ibid.
The German Secret Service was dismantled and its leaders ousted. ibid.
A penetration agent in the Soviet interest. ibid.
Guy Burgess: a flamboyant homosexual with a streak of devilry who had also wormed his way into British Intelligence. And Donald Maclean ... at the Foreign Office. ibid.
The Cambridge Spy Film: Otto instructed Philby in the art of spy-craft. ibid.
MI6 set up a new section - Section 9 ... [Konstantin] Volkov also offered to identify a key Soviet spy inside British Intelligence. ibid.
Philby found the work fascinating, and so did Moscow. ibid.
Philby served his two masters with brutal efficiency. ibid.
Maclean was Homer ... The net was closing. ibid.
Burgess was also a friend of Donald Maclean. ibid.
If Philby was going to make his escape and join Burgess and Maclean in Soviet exile, now was his moment. ibid.
For more than fifteen years he had been feeding British and American secrets to Moscow causing the deaths of hundreds of people. (Spy & Betrayal & Traitor) Ben Macintyre, Kim Philby – His Most Intimate Betrayal 2/2
White was a veteran spy hunter – polite, relentless and completely ruthless. ibid.
Philby had often considered making a run for Moscow. ibid.
Why did Macmillan exonerate a man that MI5 believed was guilty? ibid.
That night Elliott sent a cable to London saying that his friend had finally broken. Philby’s career as a Soviet Spy was over. ibid.
The traitor [‘40’] was the Duke of Norfolk. Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents, BBC 2017
Off to the Tower went the Leveller leaders like so many traitors ... A petitioning campaign to demand the release of the Levellers was mobilised in London by Leveller women. Simon Schama, A History of Britain: Revolutions
There’s a traitor in our midst. Salamander I, bank manager, BBC 2014
It has taken me all these years to realise who he really is and the despicable hateful things he’s done. A Spy Among Friends I: Boom-ooh-yatatatah, ITV 2022
Kim has to be handled by SIS not MI5 … I mean me. ibid. Elliott
I came to tell you that your past has caught up with you. ibid. Elliott to Philby
I first met him in 1940 at my club … He has this capacity to draw people in. ibid. Elliott
Philby’s life was on the line. As was the meaning of Elliott’s. Not to forget the reputation of the Intelligence Services. A Spy Among Friends II: The Admiral’s Glass, Lily
You are asking me to spy on my closest friend. ibid. Elliott to Kim’s wife
No, joint effort with Fleming. ibid. Elliott to Kim
You bloody well missed it. ibid. Flora to Elliott
You were always one step ahead of him. ibid.
If you do confess and confess in full, every secret you ever passed, every death you caused, if you do that, then you will be allowed to return home to live out your days in peace and anonymity. Nice country cottage. Village cricket team. Friendly local pub. Where no-one, not even your family and especially not your children, will have the slightest idea of the things you’ve done. However, anything less than a full confession and then you will be tried for treason. When they will scream for your blood … A Spy Among Friends III: Allegory of the Catholic Faith, Elliott
Mark my words, Nicholas Elliott is up to something. ibid. Flora
And may I introduce Sir Anthony Blunt. Purveyor of the Queen’s pictures. ibid.
For services to the Soviet people. ibid. Russian medal for Kim
This drama is based on Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction book A Spy Among Friends. A Spy Among Friends IV, caption
Philby Talks. ibid. Pathé Newsreel
Sir Anthony Blunt is another agents of the Russian Intelligence Service. He is in custody awaiting further questioning. ibid. Lily’s telegram
You are our man in Washington. ibid. Elliott to Kim
If anybody should have seen through him, it should have been me. ibid. Kim to Elliott
You’re not the only traitor. There are two more of you still in play. ibid. Elliott to Kim
I’ve been a nervous wreck these last thirty years. ibid. Kim
Now the communists are in, in among us, and in far greater numbers than we ever thought possible. ibid. Angleton
So lovely to see you again, Guy. ibid. Kim in bar
All that’s left now is their vodka. ibid. Guy to Kim
You shouldn’t have run when you did. You ruined everything. ibid. Kim
We now have a man in the KGB. What did I tell you? ibid. Angelton
There’s no way for them to address the elephant in the room. A Spy Among Friends V: Snow, Lily
We believe Elliott has found out about Blunt. ibid. Hollis
Kim is a traitor. A double agent for the KGB. Has been for thirty years. Had me fooled since we first met in 1940. ibid. Elliott
MI5 have lost Blunt. ibid.
Stalin was a monster. You happy now? ibid. Kim
Go back to Washington before it’s too late. And leave Blunt to me. ibid. Elliott to Angelton
You’re the fourth man. ibid. Elliott to Blunt
Why? You haven’t gone and lost him, have you? A Spy Among Friends VI: No Man’s Land, Elliott to Hollis
It all began in Vienna, February 1934. ibid. Kim to Elliott
To protect you, because as we both know, you’ve been very busy for the KGB until right fucking now. ibid. Elliott to Kim on balcony
Are you implying there are more? ibid. Hollis to Elliott
We are duty bound to recognise the patience and discipline of the Russian Intelligence Services are never again to be underestimated. ibid. Angleton
At any given moment, you’re far more switched on than you let on. Which is what makes you so dangerous. Tell me you’ll make something of all this. That in the end you were in fact always one step ahead of him. ibid. Flora
Sir Anthony Blunt’s treason was kept secret until 1979, when Margaret Thatcher exposed him in a speech to Parliament, forcing the Queen to strip him of his knighthood. ibid. caption
James Jesus Angleton infected the CIA with paranoia and mistrust until he was fired in 1974. ibid.
Sir Roger Hollis left MI5 in 1965. He was long suspected to be a Soviet agent, until a later investigation cleared him. ibid.
Kim Philby never spied again. He died in Moscow in 1988. ibid.
Nicholas Elliott was cleared in respect of Philby’s defection and retired SIS/MI6 in 1968 – his reputation as an excellent and loyal Intelligence officer, with a penchant for filthy limericks, intact. ibid.
Lily Thomas never existed. ibid.
This was a grave national security breach, the extent of which is hard to fathom. Four Corners: Russia’s Secret Spy, old boy, ABC 2023
Asio has been warned for years that it’s been penetrated by Russia’s feared spy agency, the KGB. ibid.
The mole has top secret security clearance. ibid.
His treachery comes in the twilight of a 30-plus-year career. ibid.
The breakthrough comes from another Russia defector: Vasili Mitrokhin. ibid.
The mole is Ian George Peacock, a senior operations manager in Asio Sydney office. ibid.