Too Secret Too Long, page 81
[15]Colonel T. A. Robertson
[1]Chapter 23: The ‘Whitewash’ Paper (pages 220-31)
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[2]Confidential information. For inaccuracies about Burgess, see Goronwy Rees, op cit
[3]Hansard, 7 November 1955, col. 1483
[4]Letter from Michael Thwaites. The White Paper seems to have been published only because the Australian Government decided to publish a report on the Petrov defection
[5]Hansard, 7 November 1955, col. 1599
[6]Hansard, 25 October 1955
[7]Seale and McConville, op cit
[8]Confidential information
[9]Conversation with Mr Macmillan at Birch Grove
[10]See The Great Spy Scandal, Daily Express Publications 1955
[11]Confidential information
[12]Ibid
[13]Information from Sir Maurice Oldfield
[14]Ibid
[15]Confidential information
[16]Statement from a witness at the party
[17]Cmnd 9715, 1956
[18]Eleanor Philby, Kim Philby, the Spy I Loved, Hamish Hamilton 1968
[19]See Sunday Times, 12 February 1956 and other papers that day. A likely explanation for the production of the two traitors is given by Douglas Sutherland in The Fourth Man, Seeker and Warburg 1980
[20]Daily Express, 27 February 1956
[21]Tom Driberg, Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1956
[22]Confidential information. See Their Trade is Treachery, Sidgwick and Jackson 1981
[23]Daily Express, 23 November 1956
[24]For a review of the excellent television documentary-drama An Englishman Abroad, of a visit paid by the actress Coral Browne to Moscow and a meeting with Burgess, see Daily Mail, 3 December 1983
[1]Chapter 24: Momentous Escapade (pages 232-7)
1Confidential information
[2]Information from Naval Intelligence source
[3]Confidential information
[4]Former MI10 source
[5]Former MI6 source
[6]Information from Lord Glendevon
[7]Hansard, 14 May 1956, col. 1751. An excellent example of ministerial stone-walling
[8]Confidential information
[9]Bernard Hutton, Commander Crabb is Alive, Tandem 1968. Conversations with Mrs Pat Rose
[10]Ibid and see Chapter 39
[1]Chapter 25: In Control (pages 238-49)
1Sir Martin Furnival Jones, Franks Report on the Official Secrets Act
[2]Imperial Calendar 1956
[3]Conversation with Mrs Betty Morris
[4]Conversations with Mrs Patricia Stewart
[5]E.g. those of Blake and Wennerstrom (see Whiteside, op cit)
[6]Letter from Tangye. Statement by David Leigh, Frontiers of Secrecy, Junction Books 1980. (This information came from a relative of Hollis)
[7]Confidential information
[8]Letter from Professor R. V. Jones
[9]The Times, 2 April 1960
[10]Confidential information
[11]11Ibid
[12]Josef Frolik, The Frolik Defection, Leo Cooper 1975. Deacon, op cit. The Times, 25 January 1974
[13]Confidential information
[14]Ibid
[15]Ibid
[16]Sir Dick White, The Times (obituary notice), 6 November 1973
[17]Letters from the officer concerned, Colonel Basil Spurling
[1]Chapter 26: A ‘Pig’ called ‘Lavinia’ (pages 250-7)
1U.B. – Urzad Bezpieczenstwa. Much of the information in this chapter derives from confidential sources. David C. Martin, op cit also supplies prime source information from C.I.A.
[2]A reliable account of the Portland Spy-Ring is given by Norman Lucas, The Great Spy Ring, Arthur Barker 1966. Lucas had excellent access to the Special Branch information
[3]Confidential information
[4]Lord Wigg, George Wigg, Michael Joseph 1972. Hansard, 7 May 1963, col 311
[5]Confidential information
[6]Gordon Lonsdale, Spy, Neville Spearman 1965. According to Eleanor Philby, op cit, Lonsdale’s book was ghosted by Philby
[7]Harry Houghton, Operation Portland, Hart-Davis 1972
[8]Costello had been at Trinity College, Cambridge in the early 1930s and was in the New Zealand Legation in Moscow from 1944–50. He was in the New Zealand diplomatic service in Paris from 1950–5. He died 23 February 1964. The two ‘diplomats’ expelled in New Zealand were Andreev and Shtykov
[9]Information from George Miller, a Russian-speaking student of Soviet affairs
[10]Hansard, 23 March 1961, col. 584
[11]Hansard, 13 June 1961, col. 211. Also 22 June, col. 1683
[12]Ibid
[13]Harold Macmillan, At the End of the Day, Macmillan 1973. Hansard, 23 March 1961, col. 586
[1]Chapter 27: A ‘Real Outsider’ (pages 258-63)
1Confidential information
[2]Information from Lord George-Brown, see Chapman Pincher, Inside Story, Sidgwick and Jackson 1978
[3]Confidential information
[4]Information from Lord George-Brown
[5]Hansard, 11 May 1961
[6]Letter from Patrick Kelleher
[7]Lord Harris of Greenwich. The Irish criminal was Sean Bourke
[1]8John Vassall, Vassall, Sidgwick and Jackson 1975
9Deacon, op cit. For an Iron Curtain statement that Blake had been recruited before his service in Korea, see E. Gomori ‘Clandestine Service C.I.A.’, Kozmosz, Budapest 1979
Chapter 28: A Defector in Place? (pages 264-7)
1Confidential information. Greville Wynne, The Man from Moscow, Hutchinson, 1967. Oleg Penkovsky, The Penkovsky Papers, edited by Frank Gibney, Collins 1965 (a compilation of documents and tape-recordings made available by the C.I.A.)
[2]Confidential information
[3]Penkovsky Papers. See Chapter 34
[4]See Their Trade is Treachery
[5]Confidential information
[1]Chapter 29: A Spy in the Labour Party (pages 268-70)
1See Chapter 26
[2]Confidential information
[3]See Chapman Pincher, Inside Story. Further confidential information
[4]Information supplied by Lord George-Brown
[5]See Chapter 60. Hambleton trial transcript
[6]Ibid
[1]Chapter 30: The Numbers Game (pages 271-4)
1Report on Security Procedures in the Public Service, Cmnd 1681, 1962
[2]See Anthony Courtney, Sailor in a Russian Frame, Johnson 1968, and various statements by him in Parliament
[3]Confidential information from R.C.M.P. sources
[4]Senior R.C.M.P. source. When Hollis retired, the Soviet Embassy staff numbered 142: 71 official envoys, 26 attachés, 37 clerks and 8 chauffeurs
[1]Chapter 31: A Defector Called ‘Kago’ (pages 275-85)
1Leo Abse, The Times, 26 October 1981. Abse, ‘The Judas Syndrome’, Spectator, 20 March 1982
[2]Vassall, op cit
[3]Confidential information
[4]Confidential information
[5]Nosenko’s American code-name was Foxtrot. The K.G.B. has a list of male as well as female prostitutes used for seduction purposes
[6]Conversation with Vassall
[7]Vassall told the author that he hated the bookcase because it was ‘out of keeping with my nice antiques’
[8]Confidential information
[9]See Edward J. Epstein, Legend, Hutchinson 1978. David C. Martin, op cit. Henry Hurt, Shadrin, Readers Digest Press 1981. Confidential information
[10]Conversation with Vassall
[11]Daily Express, 23 November 1962. See Chapman Pincher, Inside Story
[12]Report of the Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Vassall Case and Related Matters, Cmnd 2009, 1963. Hansard, 7 May 1963, col 240
[13]Conversation with Lord Carrington
[14]Harold Macmillan, op cit
[15]White Paper, published 7 November 1962. See The Times, 8 November 1982
[16]See Their Trade is Treachery
[1]Chapter 32: Philby’s Defection (pages 286-304)
1Confidential information from Foreign Office source
[2]Confidential information
[3]Ibid
[4]Flora Solomon and Barnet Litvinoff, op cit
[5]Private information from friends of Mrs Solomon. See also Seale and McConville, op cit
[6]By Sir Dick White
[7]Confidential information
[8]Evidence from former MI5 officers
[9]Evidence from MI6 and C.I.A. sources
[10]Information from Nicholas Elliott
[11]Tim Milne had been forbidden to publish his account of his association with Philby, at the time of writing
[12]Philby claimed to have seen a photograph of Deutsch in the F.B.I. files, but checks showed that no such photograph existed before Philby had left Washington
[13]Confidential information confirmed by C.I.A. source
[14]Harold Macmillan, op cit
[15]Eleanor Philby, op cit. In the late afternoon Philby had told his wife he had an appointment but would be back
[16]Philby, op cit
[17]The Cheka, Vol. 5, 1983
[18]Hansard, 26 March 1981, col. 1079
[19]Geoffrey McDermott writing in New York Times
[20]Hansard, 1 July 1963, col. 33. Heath reacted to disclosures in the U.S. magazine, Newsweek
[21]Ibid
[22]Harold Wilson, Labour Government, 1964-1970, Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph 1971
[23]Macmillan, op cit. Conversations with Harold Macmillan and Sir Harold Evans
[24]See Derek Tangye, The Ambrose Rock, Michael 1982
[25]Joseph Conversation with Otto John. John supplied accurate information about the impending plot to kill Hitler to be followed by a peace treaty. Also confidential information
[26]Letter from Professor R. V. Jones. He wrote, ‘What is certain is that from December 1941 Philby knew that one form of Enigma could be broken and anyone interested in cryptography would realise that if you could break one form you could break any other of comparable difficulty’
[27]There have been claims in the Soviet Press that he holds the rank of brigadier, or even major-general
[28]George Honigmann. Philby’s decree absolute was dated 17 September 1946. A further inquiry into Lizi’s activities was made after Philby was safely in Russia. One of his former MI6 colleagues was found to have lived with her for a while in London while knowing her communist and pro-Russian connections and had failed to report them. He was required to leave the service
[29]Confidential information. Also see William Hood, Mole, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1982. Hood, a former C.I.A. officer, tells how the C.I.A. interrogated Akhmedov, who repeatedly said, ‘But you must know this. I went over it in detail with the British.’ Checks showed that not only had Philby reported little but had derided Akhmedov as a source, as Hollis had derided Gouzenko
[30]While large portions of the Russia Committee archives for 1948–50 are available at the Public Record Office, those for 1951 are still withheld. See Peter Hennessy, The Times, 28 July 1982
[31]See Thomas Powers, The Man who Kept the Secrets, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979
[32]Ibid
[33]Letters from R.C.M.P. sources. Also see John Sawatsky, Men in the Shadows, Doubleday, Canada 1980. Also statement by former R.C.M.P. Commissioner, George McLellan on Canadian T.V.
[34]Confidential information
[35]Eleanor Philby, op cit. Conversation with Otto John. Confidential information from MI6 source
[36]Information from MI6 sources
[37]See Philby interview with Roy Blackman, Daily Express, 15 November 1967. Information from relative of Mr Greene
[1]Chapter 33: The Mitchell Case (pages 305-16)
1Confidential information. Also letter written by Jonathan Aitken to Margaret Thatcher on 31 January 1980. Conversation with Harold Macmillan
[2]Confirmed by Peter Wright, loc cit
[3]See David C. Martin op cit
[4]Hansard, 26 March 1981, col. 1079
[5]It has not been possible to discover where he lived while at Blenheim. By 1948, and probably before, he was back in London living in the Highgate area
[6]The identities of some of these recruits are now known
[7]See Hennessy and Brownfeld, op cit
[8]Confidential information. Confirmed by Harold Macmillan
[9]Known in the jargon as ‘barium meals’
[10]Information given to me by Colonel Lohan, a close friend
[11]Sir Richard Way
[12]Confidential information. Evidence that Coote had been a low-handicap golfer supplied by William Deedes, Editor, Daily Telegraph. Hollis, at his best, played off four
[13]Conversation with Colonel Robertson
[14]Confidential information from the R.C.M.P. and F.B.I.
[15]Confidential information from senior R.C.M.P. source. Conversations with Lord Wigg
[1]Chapter 34: The Profumo Affair (pages 317-36)
1Cmnd 2152, September 1963
[2]Witnesses were not required to give evidence under oath and were allowed to testify confidentially if they wished. In her book, Nothing But…, Christine Keeler states, ‘Lord Denning was kind enough to believe half of what I said…’
[3]Penkovsky, op cit
[4]Denning Report
[5]Conversations with Christine Keeler. Also Keeler, op cit
[6]Conversations with Michael Eddowes and letters
[7]Conversations with Christine Keeler
[8]Christine Keeler, op cit
[9]See Jane’s Weapons Systems
[10]Denning Report
[11]Documents supplied by German Embassy
[12]Personal examination of Eddowes’ documents
[13]Denning omitted any mention of Eddowes’ evidence from his report
[14]In Nothing But…, New English Library 1983, Keeler records how she was repeatedly grilled by Detective Sergeant Burrows and Inspector Herbert about the request to discover the nuclear weapons date, so they, at least were taking it seriously. ‘My interrogation took place in a windowless room at the station with all the classic techniques of the Gestapo’
[15]See note 34 below
[16]Harold Macmillan, op cit. He records a visit from Hollis who told him that, according to Keeler, Ward had asked her to find out from Profumo some information concerning atomic secrets
[17]One of the officers involved in the case described Ivanov as probably the most dedicated communist in his experience
[18]Denning Report
[19]Ibid
[20]Robert Kennedy, posthumous book published by McCall’s magazine, 20 October 1968
[21]Confidential information from the officer concerned. A senior Foreign Office source claims that the first intimation MI5 had about the relationship between Profumo and Keeler was a monitored telephone call in which Ivanov claimed to have the same girlfriend as the War Minister
[22]See The Great Spy Scandal, Daily Express Publications. The caller to Wigg is believed, in MI5, to have been the K.G.B. agent Victor Louis
[23]The Profumo Debate, Hansard, 17 June 1963, col. 34
[24]Mark Chapman-Walker
[25]Profumo Debate, op cit
[26]Denning Report
[27]The writer was Wagstaffe (‘Woods’)
[28]Denning Report. Also see Chapman Pincher, Inside Story, Sidgwick and Jackson 1978
[29]Hansard, Security and the Denning Report, 16 December 1963, col. 974
[30]Conversations with Eddowes and examination of his documents. In Parliament Macmillan was to deny that Dickinson said that the report would be on his desk but Eddowes made a contemporary record of the events
[31]Profumo Debate, op cit
[32]Lord Wigg, op cit
[1]Chapter 23: The ‘Whitewash’ Paper (pages 220-31)
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[2]Confidential information. For inaccuracies about Burgess, see Goronwy Rees, op cit
[3]Hansard, 7 November 1955, col. 1483
[4]Letter from Michael Thwaites. The White Paper seems to have been published only because the Australian Government decided to publish a report on the Petrov defection
[5]Hansard, 7 November 1955, col. 1599
[6]Hansard, 25 October 1955
[7]Seale and McConville, op cit
[8]Confidential information
[9]Conversation with Mr Macmillan at Birch Grove
[10]See The Great Spy Scandal, Daily Express Publications 1955
[11]Confidential information
[12]Ibid
[13]Information from Sir Maurice Oldfield
[14]Ibid
[15]Confidential information
[16]Statement from a witness at the party
[17]Cmnd 9715, 1956
[18]Eleanor Philby, Kim Philby, the Spy I Loved, Hamish Hamilton 1968
[19]See Sunday Times, 12 February 1956 and other papers that day. A likely explanation for the production of the two traitors is given by Douglas Sutherland in The Fourth Man, Seeker and Warburg 1980
[20]Daily Express, 27 February 1956
[21]Tom Driberg, Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1956
[22]Confidential information. See Their Trade is Treachery, Sidgwick and Jackson 1981
[23]Daily Express, 23 November 1956
[24]For a review of the excellent television documentary-drama An Englishman Abroad, of a visit paid by the actress Coral Browne to Moscow and a meeting with Burgess, see Daily Mail, 3 December 1983
[1]Chapter 24: Momentous Escapade (pages 232-7)
1Confidential information
[2]Information from Naval Intelligence source
[3]Confidential information
[4]Former MI10 source
[5]Former MI6 source
[6]Information from Lord Glendevon
[7]Hansard, 14 May 1956, col. 1751. An excellent example of ministerial stone-walling
[8]Confidential information
[9]Bernard Hutton, Commander Crabb is Alive, Tandem 1968. Conversations with Mrs Pat Rose
[10]Ibid and see Chapter 39
[1]Chapter 25: In Control (pages 238-49)
1Sir Martin Furnival Jones, Franks Report on the Official Secrets Act
[2]Imperial Calendar 1956
[3]Conversation with Mrs Betty Morris
[4]Conversations with Mrs Patricia Stewart
[5]E.g. those of Blake and Wennerstrom (see Whiteside, op cit)
[6]Letter from Tangye. Statement by David Leigh, Frontiers of Secrecy, Junction Books 1980. (This information came from a relative of Hollis)
[7]Confidential information
[8]Letter from Professor R. V. Jones
[9]The Times, 2 April 1960
[10]Confidential information
[11]11Ibid
[12]Josef Frolik, The Frolik Defection, Leo Cooper 1975. Deacon, op cit. The Times, 25 January 1974
[13]Confidential information
[14]Ibid
[15]Ibid
[16]Sir Dick White, The Times (obituary notice), 6 November 1973
[17]Letters from the officer concerned, Colonel Basil Spurling
[1]Chapter 26: A ‘Pig’ called ‘Lavinia’ (pages 250-7)
1U.B. – Urzad Bezpieczenstwa. Much of the information in this chapter derives from confidential sources. David C. Martin, op cit also supplies prime source information from C.I.A.
[2]A reliable account of the Portland Spy-Ring is given by Norman Lucas, The Great Spy Ring, Arthur Barker 1966. Lucas had excellent access to the Special Branch information
[3]Confidential information
[4]Lord Wigg, George Wigg, Michael Joseph 1972. Hansard, 7 May 1963, col 311
[5]Confidential information
[6]Gordon Lonsdale, Spy, Neville Spearman 1965. According to Eleanor Philby, op cit, Lonsdale’s book was ghosted by Philby
[7]Harry Houghton, Operation Portland, Hart-Davis 1972
[8]Costello had been at Trinity College, Cambridge in the early 1930s and was in the New Zealand Legation in Moscow from 1944–50. He was in the New Zealand diplomatic service in Paris from 1950–5. He died 23 February 1964. The two ‘diplomats’ expelled in New Zealand were Andreev and Shtykov
[9]Information from George Miller, a Russian-speaking student of Soviet affairs
[10]Hansard, 23 March 1961, col. 584
[11]Hansard, 13 June 1961, col. 211. Also 22 June, col. 1683
[12]Ibid
[13]Harold Macmillan, At the End of the Day, Macmillan 1973. Hansard, 23 March 1961, col. 586
[1]Chapter 27: A ‘Real Outsider’ (pages 258-63)
1Confidential information
[2]Information from Lord George-Brown, see Chapman Pincher, Inside Story, Sidgwick and Jackson 1978
[3]Confidential information
[4]Information from Lord George-Brown
[5]Hansard, 11 May 1961
[6]Letter from Patrick Kelleher
[7]Lord Harris of Greenwich. The Irish criminal was Sean Bourke
[1]8John Vassall, Vassall, Sidgwick and Jackson 1975
9Deacon, op cit. For an Iron Curtain statement that Blake had been recruited before his service in Korea, see E. Gomori ‘Clandestine Service C.I.A.’, Kozmosz, Budapest 1979
Chapter 28: A Defector in Place? (pages 264-7)
1Confidential information. Greville Wynne, The Man from Moscow, Hutchinson, 1967. Oleg Penkovsky, The Penkovsky Papers, edited by Frank Gibney, Collins 1965 (a compilation of documents and tape-recordings made available by the C.I.A.)
[2]Confidential information
[3]Penkovsky Papers. See Chapter 34
[4]See Their Trade is Treachery
[5]Confidential information
[1]Chapter 29: A Spy in the Labour Party (pages 268-70)
1See Chapter 26
[2]Confidential information
[3]See Chapman Pincher, Inside Story. Further confidential information
[4]Information supplied by Lord George-Brown
[5]See Chapter 60. Hambleton trial transcript
[6]Ibid
[1]Chapter 30: The Numbers Game (pages 271-4)
1Report on Security Procedures in the Public Service, Cmnd 1681, 1962
[2]See Anthony Courtney, Sailor in a Russian Frame, Johnson 1968, and various statements by him in Parliament
[3]Confidential information from R.C.M.P. sources
[4]Senior R.C.M.P. source. When Hollis retired, the Soviet Embassy staff numbered 142: 71 official envoys, 26 attachés, 37 clerks and 8 chauffeurs
[1]Chapter 31: A Defector Called ‘Kago’ (pages 275-85)
1Leo Abse, The Times, 26 October 1981. Abse, ‘The Judas Syndrome’, Spectator, 20 March 1982
[2]Vassall, op cit
[3]Confidential information
[4]Confidential information
[5]Nosenko’s American code-name was Foxtrot. The K.G.B. has a list of male as well as female prostitutes used for seduction purposes
[6]Conversation with Vassall
[7]Vassall told the author that he hated the bookcase because it was ‘out of keeping with my nice antiques’
[8]Confidential information
[9]See Edward J. Epstein, Legend, Hutchinson 1978. David C. Martin, op cit. Henry Hurt, Shadrin, Readers Digest Press 1981. Confidential information
[10]Conversation with Vassall
[11]Daily Express, 23 November 1962. See Chapman Pincher, Inside Story
[12]Report of the Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Vassall Case and Related Matters, Cmnd 2009, 1963. Hansard, 7 May 1963, col 240
[13]Conversation with Lord Carrington
[14]Harold Macmillan, op cit
[15]White Paper, published 7 November 1962. See The Times, 8 November 1982
[16]See Their Trade is Treachery
[1]Chapter 32: Philby’s Defection (pages 286-304)
1Confidential information from Foreign Office source
[2]Confidential information
[3]Ibid
[4]Flora Solomon and Barnet Litvinoff, op cit
[5]Private information from friends of Mrs Solomon. See also Seale and McConville, op cit
[6]By Sir Dick White
[7]Confidential information
[8]Evidence from former MI5 officers
[9]Evidence from MI6 and C.I.A. sources
[10]Information from Nicholas Elliott
[11]Tim Milne had been forbidden to publish his account of his association with Philby, at the time of writing
[12]Philby claimed to have seen a photograph of Deutsch in the F.B.I. files, but checks showed that no such photograph existed before Philby had left Washington
[13]Confidential information confirmed by C.I.A. source
[14]Harold Macmillan, op cit
[15]Eleanor Philby, op cit. In the late afternoon Philby had told his wife he had an appointment but would be back
[16]Philby, op cit
[17]The Cheka, Vol. 5, 1983
[18]Hansard, 26 March 1981, col. 1079
[19]Geoffrey McDermott writing in New York Times
[20]Hansard, 1 July 1963, col. 33. Heath reacted to disclosures in the U.S. magazine, Newsweek
[21]Ibid
[22]Harold Wilson, Labour Government, 1964-1970, Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph 1971
[23]Macmillan, op cit. Conversations with Harold Macmillan and Sir Harold Evans
[24]See Derek Tangye, The Ambrose Rock, Michael 1982
[25]Joseph Conversation with Otto John. John supplied accurate information about the impending plot to kill Hitler to be followed by a peace treaty. Also confidential information
[26]Letter from Professor R. V. Jones. He wrote, ‘What is certain is that from December 1941 Philby knew that one form of Enigma could be broken and anyone interested in cryptography would realise that if you could break one form you could break any other of comparable difficulty’
[27]There have been claims in the Soviet Press that he holds the rank of brigadier, or even major-general
[28]George Honigmann. Philby’s decree absolute was dated 17 September 1946. A further inquiry into Lizi’s activities was made after Philby was safely in Russia. One of his former MI6 colleagues was found to have lived with her for a while in London while knowing her communist and pro-Russian connections and had failed to report them. He was required to leave the service
[29]Confidential information. Also see William Hood, Mole, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1982. Hood, a former C.I.A. officer, tells how the C.I.A. interrogated Akhmedov, who repeatedly said, ‘But you must know this. I went over it in detail with the British.’ Checks showed that not only had Philby reported little but had derided Akhmedov as a source, as Hollis had derided Gouzenko
[30]While large portions of the Russia Committee archives for 1948–50 are available at the Public Record Office, those for 1951 are still withheld. See Peter Hennessy, The Times, 28 July 1982
[31]See Thomas Powers, The Man who Kept the Secrets, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979
[32]Ibid
[33]Letters from R.C.M.P. sources. Also see John Sawatsky, Men in the Shadows, Doubleday, Canada 1980. Also statement by former R.C.M.P. Commissioner, George McLellan on Canadian T.V.
[34]Confidential information
[35]Eleanor Philby, op cit. Conversation with Otto John. Confidential information from MI6 source
[36]Information from MI6 sources
[37]See Philby interview with Roy Blackman, Daily Express, 15 November 1967. Information from relative of Mr Greene
[1]Chapter 33: The Mitchell Case (pages 305-16)
1Confidential information. Also letter written by Jonathan Aitken to Margaret Thatcher on 31 January 1980. Conversation with Harold Macmillan
[2]Confirmed by Peter Wright, loc cit
[3]See David C. Martin op cit
[4]Hansard, 26 March 1981, col. 1079
[5]It has not been possible to discover where he lived while at Blenheim. By 1948, and probably before, he was back in London living in the Highgate area
[6]The identities of some of these recruits are now known
[7]See Hennessy and Brownfeld, op cit
[8]Confidential information. Confirmed by Harold Macmillan
[9]Known in the jargon as ‘barium meals’
[10]Information given to me by Colonel Lohan, a close friend
[11]Sir Richard Way
[12]Confidential information. Evidence that Coote had been a low-handicap golfer supplied by William Deedes, Editor, Daily Telegraph. Hollis, at his best, played off four
[13]Conversation with Colonel Robertson
[14]Confidential information from the R.C.M.P. and F.B.I.
[15]Confidential information from senior R.C.M.P. source. Conversations with Lord Wigg
[1]Chapter 34: The Profumo Affair (pages 317-36)
1Cmnd 2152, September 1963
[2]Witnesses were not required to give evidence under oath and were allowed to testify confidentially if they wished. In her book, Nothing But…, Christine Keeler states, ‘Lord Denning was kind enough to believe half of what I said…’
[3]Penkovsky, op cit
[4]Denning Report
[5]Conversations with Christine Keeler. Also Keeler, op cit
[6]Conversations with Michael Eddowes and letters
[7]Conversations with Christine Keeler
[8]Christine Keeler, op cit
[9]See Jane’s Weapons Systems
[10]Denning Report
[11]Documents supplied by German Embassy
[12]Personal examination of Eddowes’ documents
[13]Denning omitted any mention of Eddowes’ evidence from his report
[14]In Nothing But…, New English Library 1983, Keeler records how she was repeatedly grilled by Detective Sergeant Burrows and Inspector Herbert about the request to discover the nuclear weapons date, so they, at least were taking it seriously. ‘My interrogation took place in a windowless room at the station with all the classic techniques of the Gestapo’
[15]See note 34 below
[16]Harold Macmillan, op cit. He records a visit from Hollis who told him that, according to Keeler, Ward had asked her to find out from Profumo some information concerning atomic secrets
[17]One of the officers involved in the case described Ivanov as probably the most dedicated communist in his experience
[18]Denning Report
[19]Ibid
[20]Robert Kennedy, posthumous book published by McCall’s magazine, 20 October 1968
[21]Confidential information from the officer concerned. A senior Foreign Office source claims that the first intimation MI5 had about the relationship between Profumo and Keeler was a monitored telephone call in which Ivanov claimed to have the same girlfriend as the War Minister
[22]See The Great Spy Scandal, Daily Express Publications. The caller to Wigg is believed, in MI5, to have been the K.G.B. agent Victor Louis
[23]The Profumo Debate, Hansard, 17 June 1963, col. 34
[24]Mark Chapman-Walker
[25]Profumo Debate, op cit
[26]Denning Report
[27]The writer was Wagstaffe (‘Woods’)
[28]Denning Report. Also see Chapman Pincher, Inside Story, Sidgwick and Jackson 1978
[29]Hansard, Security and the Denning Report, 16 December 1963, col. 974
[30]Conversations with Eddowes and examination of his documents. In Parliament Macmillan was to deny that Dickinson said that the report would be on his desk but Eddowes made a contemporary record of the events
[31]Profumo Debate, op cit
[32]Lord Wigg, op cit
