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45. Deutscher, Trotsky, vol. 3, pp. 407-8, 419-20. Sylvia Ageloff later described how, at an apparently “accidental meeting,” the “handsome and dashing” Mercader, posing as a Belgian journalist, had “swept her off her feet with his charm, gallantry and generosity.” Hook, Out of Step, p. 242.

46. k-4,198,206.

47. vol. 6, ch. 5, part 2, n. 4.

48. vol. 6, ch. 5, part 2, n. 4. Albam’s file does not record his wife’s arrest, so her denunciation of him may have saved her. Acquaintance with Albam was also among the evidence which led to the arrest of the military intelligence officers who had recruited him some years earlier: S. P. Uritsky and Aleksandr Karin. At the time of their arrest in 1937 they were, respectively, head and assistant head of military intelligence. Both were shot.

49. k-9,75.

50. k-9,76.

51. k-9,83. Bukharin was tried and sentenced to death in the last of the great show trials in February 1938.

52. vol. 6, ch. 8, part 1.

53. Orlov, The Secret History of Stalin’s Crime, pp. 235-7. Though he had only deacon’s orders when he gave up the monastic life, Maly was regarded within the NKVD as a former priest.

54. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 1. Cf. Primakov et al., Ocherki Istorii Rossiyskoi Vneshnei Razvedki, vol. 3, p. 166.

55. Information from the son of the late Oscar Deutsch, David Deutsch, who recalls meeting Arnold Deutsch at sabbath dinners in Birmingham.

56. vol. 6, ch. 5, part 2.

57. The two most detailed accounts of the assassination of Poretsky, which disagree on some points of detail, are: Poretsky, Our Own People, pp. 1-3, chs. 9, 10; Krivitsky, I was Stalin’s Agent, ch. 8.

58. vol. 7, ch. 9.

59. vol. 7, ch. 9, para. 22.

60. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, p. 233.

61. Rees, A Chapter of Accidents, pp. 110-11.

62. Rees, Looking for Mr. Nobody, pp. 87-90.

63. vol. 7, ch. 10, app., item 7.

64. Costello and Tsarev, Deadly Illusions, p. 245. Blunt had left Cambridge for the Warburg Institute in London, but returned for meetings of the Apostles and other occasions.

65. The files noted by Mitrokhin suggest that the intelligence supplied by Rees was of slender importance—items such as information on the correspondence of the Czech newspaper editor Hubert Ripka (later a member of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London) and the unsurprising news that the former British secret agent Sir Paul Dukes was still in touch with SIS. vol. 7, ch. 10, app., item 7.

66. Orlov, The Secret History of Stalin’s Crime, pp. 237-8. An alternative version has it that Slutsky was smothered in his office; vol. 7, ch. 9, para. 37. The pretense was maintained that he had died from natural causes in order not to alarm other enemies of the people being recalled from foreign postings to retribution in Moscow.

67. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, p. 156.

68. vol. 7, ch. 9, para. 37.

69. Primakov et al., Ocherki Istorii Rossiyskoi Vneshnei Razvedki, vol. 3, p. 17.

70. Radzinsky, Stalin, p. 417.

71. vol. 7, ch. 9, para. 36.

72. Dates of dismissal and arrest from KGB file cited by Costello and Tsarev, Deadly Illusions, p. 459, n. 63.

73. vol. 7, ch. 9, para. 36.

74. vol. 7, ch. 9, para. 37.

75. Costello and Tsarev, Deadly Illusions, p. 207. Mitrokhin’s notes mention SAM but do not record the month of his arrival in London.

76. vol. 7, ch. 6, para. 2.

77. Costello and Tsarev, Deadly Illusions, pp. 208-10.

78. Foreign Office to Sir Eric Phipps (March 11, 1938), Phipps papers PHPP 2/21, Churchill College Archives Center, Cambridge.

79. West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels, p. 209. Cairncross claimed in his memoirs (The Enigma Spy, p. 69) that, after Deutsch’s recall to Moscow, he “provided no further data until after the Germans invaded Russia”—one of numerous falsehoods comprehensively demolished by his KGB file which Cairncross must have supposed would never be revealed.

80. Modin, My Five Cambridge Friends, pp. 79-80.

81. vol. 7, ch. 10, para. 23.

82. vol. 7, ch. 10, para. 23. West and Tsarev, The Crown Jewels, p. 210.

83. vol. 7, ch. 10, para. 15. ADA remained in Paris until Maclean departed with the rest of the British embassy in the summer of 1940, just before the arrival of the victorious German army.

84. vol. 7, ch. 10, paras. 15, 20. Cf. Costello and Tsarev, Deadly Illusions, pp. 216-17.

85. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, pp. 301-2. Costello and Tsarev, Deadly Illusions, pp. 239-40. Cf. vol. 7, ch. 10, para. 8.

86. vol. 7, ch. 1, para. 16.

87. Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 135.

88. vol. 7, ch. 1, para. 15.

89. Borovik, The Philby Files, p. 131.

90. Borovik, The Philby Files, pp. 132-3.