Authors: Gordon Corera
4
 Helen Womack (ed.),
Undercover Lives
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998, p. 190
5
 Gordievsky discusses his family life and motivations in an interview with Dr Anthony Clare,
In the Psychiatrist's Chair
, BBC Radio 4, 1995, IWM 15628
6
 Womack (ed.),
Undercoverr Lives
, p. 188
7
 Rufina Philby, Mikhail Lyubimov and Hayden Peake,
The Private Life of Kim Philby
, St Ermin's Press, London, 1999, p. 290; Womack (ed.),
Undercover Lives
, p. 184
8
 Interview with Oleg Gordievsky
9
 Letter from Oleg Gordievsky to
The Times
, 18 August 2008
10
 Interview with Oleg Gordievsky
11
 Ibid.
12
 Gordievsky,
Next Stop Execution
, pp. 198â206
13
 Ibid., p. 219
14
 The only time Gordievsky has ever publicly discussed these doubts was in an interview with Dr Anthony Clare,
In the Psychiatrist's Chair
, BBC Radio 4, 1995. Also additional private information
15
 âLiterary world applauds Rushdie knighthood',
Guardian
, 16 June 2007,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2oo7/jun/16/books.politics
16
 Interview with Sir John Scarlett for BBC Radio 4, 2009
17
 See âMI6 versus KGB/FSB: The Battle in Moscow', 30 January 2006, Axis Information and Analysis,
http://www.axis globe.com/article.asp?article=634
18
 Interview with Sir John Scarlett for BBC Radio 4, 2009
19
 Gordievsky,
Next Stop Execution
, p. 239
20
Â
Interview with Oleg Gordievsky
21
 Christoper Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky,
Instructions from the Centre
, Sceptre, London, 1993, p. 77
22
 Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
, Allen Lane, London, 2009, pp. 441 and 712
23
 Ibid., p. 724 has the details of the drop
24
 Eliza Manningham-Buller interviewed on
Desert Island Discs,
BBC Radio 4, 23 November 2007
25
 âWar secrets pigeon trainer dies', BBC News website, 1 April 2004,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/ 3589853.stm
26
 Interview with Baroness Manningham-Buller for BBC Radio 4, 2009
27
 Interview with Sir Stephen Lander for BBC TV, 2009
28
 Interview with Baroness Manningham-Buller for BBC Radio 4, 2009
29
 Interview with Dame Stella Rimington for BBC TV, 2009
30
 Interview with Baroness Manningham-Buller for BBC Radio 4, 2009
31
 Ibid.
32
 Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, pp. 716â20
33
 Gordon Barrass,
The Great Cold War
, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2009, p. 278
34
 Quoted in Andrew and Gordievsky,
Instructions from the Centre
, PP. 31â3
35
 Ibid., p. 122
36
 Ibid., pp. 45 and 129
37
 Barrass,
Great Cold War
, has the best analysis of Ryan and Able Archer, pp. 299â300
38
 Interview with Sir John Scarlett for BBC Radio 4, 2009
39
 Private information
40
 Barrass,
Great Cold War
, pp. 304â5
41
 Interview with former CIA analyst indoctrinated into the information at the time
42
 Quoted in Barrass,
Great Cold War
, p. 305
43
 Milt Bearden and James Risen,
The Main Enemy
, Century, New York, 2003, p. 47; the British reaction comes from private information
44
Â
Gordievsky,
Next Stop Execution
, p. 310
45
 Ibid., p. 311
46
 Margaret Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, HarperCollins, London, 1993, pp. 87 and 461
47
 Gordievsky,
Next Stop Execution
, p. 328
48
 Ibid., p. 343
49
 Private information
50
 Interview with Mikhail Lyubimov
51
 Private information
52
 Bryan Cartledge, interview for the British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge. Available at
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/BDOHP/Cartledge.pdf
53
 Interview with Oleg Gordievsky and former British officials
54
 James Adams,
The New Spies
, Pimlico, London, 1995, p. 35
55
 Interview with Sir Rodric Braithwaite for BBC Radio 4, 2009
56
 Gordievsky interview with Dr Anthony Clare,
In the Psychiatrist's Chair
, BBC Radio 4, 1995
57
 Private information
58
 Ibid.
59
 Bearden and Risen,
Main Enemy;
Tim Weiner,
Legacy of Ashes,
Allen Lane, London, 2007, p. 416
60
 James Robarge, âDeceptions: James Angleton and CIA Counter-intelligence',
Journal of Intelligence History
, vol. 3, no. 2, Winter 2003
61
 Interview with Mikhail Lyubimov
62
 The author put each man's comments to the other. They did not speak directly
63
 Interview with Sir John Scarlett for BBC Radio 4, 2009
64
 Quoted in Phillip Knightley,
The Second Oldest Profession
, W. W. Norton, New York, 1987, p. 285
65
 Professor Stephen Kotkin, âSoviet Capitulation', lecture at the London School of Economics, 20 May 2010
66
 Interview with Sir Rodric Braithwaite for BBC Radio 4, 2009
CHAPTER 8: THE AFGHAN PLAINS
1
 National Archives WO 106/6148, Lecture on the Secret Service
from early in the twentieth century by a British officer to the Staff College in Quetta
2
 Vladimir Kuzichkin,
Inside the KGB
, André Deutsch, London 1990, p. 316
3
 Rufina Philby, Mikhail Lyubimov and Hayden Peake,
The Private Life of Kim Philby
, St Ermin's Press, London, 1999, p. 87
4
 Gary C. Schroen,
First In
, Ballantine Books, New York, 2005, pp. 38 and 43
5
 Special Co-ordination Committee Meeting on Afghanistan, 17 December 1979, available through
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/D5EE99CO3C4147B091AE83160A8085 FF.pdf
6
 Margaret Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, HarperCollins, London, 1993, pp. 87 and 168
7
 Interview with Stansfield Turner, 29 November 2004
8
 Sandy Gall,
Behind Russian Lines
, Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1983, p. 150
9
 George Crile,
My Enemy's Enemy
, Atlantic Books, London, 2003, p. 18
10
 Quoted in Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf and Mark Adkin,
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap
, Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 1992, p. 20
11
 Steve Coll,
Ghost Wars
, Penguin, New York, 2004, pp. 52â4
12
 Crile,
My Enemy's Enemy
, p. 354
13
 Private information from US and British sources
14
 Crile,
My Enemy's Enemy
, p. 199
15
 Interview with guide who became one of Massoud's fighters
16
 Interview with Abdullah Anas
17
 Interview with Muslem Hayat
18
 Ken Connor,
Ghost Force
, Orion, London 1993, p. 420
19
 Mark Urban,
War in Afghanistan
, Macmillan, London, 1990, pp. 101â2
20
 Private information
21
 Interview with Abdullah Anas
22
 Milt Bearden and James Risen,
The Main Enemy
, Century, New York, 2003, p. 218
23
 Interview with retired CIA official who requested anonymity
24
 âBritish and US “subversion” against Afghanistan', BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 12 October 1983; âMan named as
British spy killed in Afghanistan found in pub', Associated Press, 16 October 1983
25
 âDead UK spy alive and well',
South China Morning Post
, 17 October 1983
26
 Obituaries of Sir Edgar Beck,
The Times
, 3 August 2000, and
Daily Telegraph
, 3 August 2000
27
 Interview with guide who accompanied the convoy
28
 Interview with Muslem Hayat
29
 âKabul news conference on British “spy”', BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 4 October 1983; âDeath of British “spy” in Afghanistan: Britain's involvement', BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 19 October 1983; âSwede accused by Kabul of spying, possibly a journalist', BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 6 October 1983
30
 âDeath of British spy in Afghanistan: Britain's involvement', BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, 19 October 1983
31
 Soviet report of career of CIA spy in Afghanistan, 24 November 1984
32
 Coll,
Ghost Wars
, p. 130
33
 Crile,
My Enemy's Enemy
, pp. 197 and 201
34
 âReagan meets rebel leaders', Facts on File World News Digest, 1 August 1986
35
 Colin Berry,
The Deniable Agent
, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2007, p. 116
36
 Yousaf and Adkin,
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap
, p. 88
37
 Ibid.
38
 Lester W. Grau and All Ahmad Jalali,
The Campaign for the Caves: The Battle for Zhawar in the Soviet-Afgan War
, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
http:// fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/zhawar/zhawar.htm
39
 Yousaf and Adkin,
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap
, p. 176; Coll,
Ghost Wars
, p. 150; Bearden and Risen,
Main Enemy
, pp. 248â52
40
 Coll,
Ghost Wars
, pp. 11â12
41
 Private information from former intelligence official working on Afghan campaign in the late 1980s
42
 Urban,
War in Afghanistan
, p. 271
43
 Crile,
My Enemy's Enemy
44
 Coll,
Ghost Wars
, p. 100
45
Â
Ibid., p. 104; Yousaf and Adkin,
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap
, p. 193
46
 Yousaf and Adkin,
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap
, pp. 113â14 and 146
47
 Ibid., p. 198
48
 Coll,
Ghost Wars
, p. 133
49
 Schroen,
First In
, p. 46. The officer who had the hit put on him by Hekmatyar was Marc Sageman (private information)
50
 Thatcher,
Downing Street Years
, p. 773
51
 Crile,
My Enemy's Enemy
, p. ix
52
 Bearden and Risen,
Main Enemy
, p. 358
53
 Yousaf and Adkin,
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap
, pp. 198 and 233
54
 Gordon Corera,
Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network,
Hurst, London, 2006
55
 Coll,
Ghost Wars
, p. 237
56
 Jason Bennetto, âBoost for MI6 in war on drugs trade',
Independent
, 29 August 1997
57
 Coll,
Ghost Wars
, p. 466
58
 Details of intelligence collection plan from George Tenet,
At the Center of the Storm
, HarperCollins, London, 2007, p. 120. Mike Scheuer of the Bin Laden unit has frequently complained of the failure to take more aggressive action
59
 Intelligence and Security Committee,
Rendition
, HMSO, 2007, Cm 7171
60
 The best account of Massoud's final minutes is in Schroen,
First In
, pp. 5â6
CHAPTER 9: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
1
 Interview with Sir Colin McColl for BBC Radio 4, 2009
2
 Private information
3
 Philip H. J. Davies, âA Critical Look at Britain's Spy Machinery',
Studies in Intelligence
, vol. 49, no. 4, 2005
4
 Private information from former member of Joint Intelligence Committee in the 1990s
5
 Interview with Sir Gerry Warner for BBC Radio 4, 2009
6
 Interview with Sir Rodric Braithwaite for BBC Radio 4, 2009;
Rodric Braithwaite,
Across the Moscow River
, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2003
7
 Stella Rimington,
Open Secret
, Arrow, London 2002, pp. 234 and 238
8
 Mitrokhin's story is recounted in Christopher Andrew's foreword to
The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World
, Allen Lane, London, 2005, pp. xiii-xxiv; the detail of the young MI6 officer comes from additional private information
9
 Richard Tomlinson,
The Big Breach
, Cutting Edge, Edinburgh, 2001, p. 110
10
 James Adams,
The New Spies
, Pimlico, London, 1995, p. 10
11
 Interview with former British official, 2009
12
 Milt Bearden and James Risen,
The Main Enemy
, Century, New York, 2003, p. 427
13
 Private information