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37. Report of the Security Commission (Cm 2930) (July 1995), chs. 2-4.

38. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 12.

39. On the information about Smith passed by MI5 to EMI in 1978, see “Phone Call that Trapped a Spy,” Independent (November 19, 1993).

40. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 12.

41. The Security Commission later concluded that Smith had held on to some of the classified documents he had obtained at Thorn-EMI and given them to the KGB some time after he lost his security access in 1978. One or more of the payments recorded in his file may thus refer to a period after his loss of access. Since Mitrokhin’s notes end in 1984, the details of KGB payments to Smith cannot refer to his later years as a Soviet agent.

42. “‘Boring’ Idealist Who Spied for Russia Gets 25 Years,” The Times (November 19, 1993).

43. Report of the Security Commission (Cm 2930) (July 1995), pp. 8-9. “Dear Maggie, Please Let Me Spy for the KGB!,” Daily Mirror (September 21, 1993). Laurence Donegan and Richard Norton-Taylor, “Spy Who Slipped Through the Net,” Guardian (November 19, 1993).

44. See below, chapter 25.

45. Britain ranked fourth in ST collection.

46. Klöckner INA Industrial Plants Ltd was a British-based subsidiary of the West German firm Klöckner Co., Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien.

47. The KGB officers who received commendations for their part in the operation were A. B. Maksimov, V. G. Goncharov, V. A. Andryevskaya, A. I. Baskakov, A. N. Belov, V. P. Varvanin, A. N. Kosarev, A. V. Smirnov, A. A. Shishkov, S. A. Agafonov, V. K. Gavrilov, S. Yu. Demidov, B. I. Danilin, O. I. Bukharev and V. A. Sedov. vol. 7, app. 3, n. 15.

48. See above, chapter 21.

49. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 14.

50. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 18. On Parastayev, see also vol. 7, app. 1, items 7, 42.

51. Ziegler, Wilson, p. 503.

52. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 18.

53. Ziegler, Wilson, pp. 508-9.

54. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 18.

55. Andrew and Gordievsky (eds.), Instructions from the Centre, p. 129.

56. vol. 7, ch. 16, items 54, 62.

57. vol. 7, ch. 16, item 62.

58. Andrew and Gordievsky (eds.), Instructions from the Centre, pp. 129-30.

59. See above, chapter 24.

60. Information from Oleg Gordievsky.

61. vol. 7, ch. 16, item 50.

62. Morning Star (October 31, 1975).

63. De-la-Noy, Mervyn Stockwood, pp. 214-15.

64. vol. 7, ch. 16, item 50. Tony Benn was also invited to dinner but declined because “Mervyn Stockwood is such an old gossip that he’d tell everybody that he’s had a dinner party for the Secretary of the Communist Party and myself.” Benn, Against the Tide, p. 482.

65. De-la-Noy, Mervyn Stockwood, p. 212.

66. vol. 7, ch. 16, item 51.

67. vol. 7, ch. 16, item 53.

68. Alasdair Palmer, “How the KGB Ran the Guardian’s Features Editor,” Spectator (December 10, 1994). Interview with Richard Gott, Guardian (December 12, 1994).

69. Mitrokhin did not note either Gott’s KGB file or references to other Guardian articles by him. His notes thus do not clarify the nature of Gott’s relationship with the KGB. Gott acknowledges having met KGB officers in London, Moscow, Vienna, Athens and Nicosia, but claims that the only money he received from them was to pay travel expenses to and in the last three locations. Interview with Richard Gott, Guardian (December 12, 1994). Cf. Gordievsky, Next Stop Execution, pp. 281-2.

70. vol. 7, ch. 16, item 66. Parliamentary Debates, 5th series, House of Commons Official Report, Session 1977-78, vol. 944, col. 1200.

71. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, pp. 506-8.

72. Andrew and Gordievsky (eds.), Instructions from the Centre, pp. 101-2, 138-9.

73. Observer duly reported American claims that the document was forged but gave greater weight to evidence for its authenticity (Observer, January 22, 1984).

74. “A Girl’s Best Friend,” New Statesman (November 5, 1982).

75. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, p. 630.

76. vol. 6, app. 1 (misc.), part 1; k-12, 51.

77. Andrew and Gordievsky (eds.), Instructions from the Centre, pp. 130-7.

78. Andrew and Gordievsky (eds.), Instructions from the Centre, p. 118.

79. There is, for example, no reference in Mitrokhin’s notes to Geoffrey Prime, the agent in GCHQ, who was—unusually—recruited and run outside the UK by the KGB Third Directorate, to whose files Mitrokhin did not have access.