Contents
PREFACE....................xi
LIST OF ACRONYMS....................xv
ONE Moscow bound: May 25, 1951.-Six conspirators.-Unanswered questions.-The government officially responds.-The 1955 White Paper.-Philby reveals the secrets.-The hunt for HOMER.-Journalists join the search.-Hearsay, conjecture, and semiofficial leaks.-Washington opens the Venona archive.-London's dilemma....................1
TWO Old secrets at risk.-A legend in his time.-A cold reception in Moscow.-Isolation and mistrust.-Moscow merchandizes its hero.-A broken-down pensioner.-Fetched from the discard pile.-A fortunate marriage.-The dutiful propagandist.-Sleepless nights and secret fears.-Addicted to fame.-Pious liars and public frauds....................19
THREE The Arlington Hall codebreakers.-The United States and Britain collaborate.-The 1946 U.K.-U.S. agreement.-Exchanging cryptologists.-The British embassy leak.-The myth of London's cooperation.-The HOMER codename.-London takes charge.-Dubious cable texts.-Excluding the FBI.-Attlee's nuclear deterrent.-Hoodwinking J. Edgar Hoover.- Philby's MI6 cipher.-False assumptions about Venona.-Fantasies, fabrications, and falsifications.-Who warned Philby?....................34
FOUR British deception during World War II.-The London Controlling Section.-Deceit and disinformation.-Dick Goldsmith White.-Deception in peacetime.-Trevor-Roper's details.-The search for Soviet codenames.-The Maclean cables.-Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Polish crisis.-Puzzling cryptologic failures.-Hiding Venona's Maclean texts.-Kept in the dark.-Whitehall misled....................62
FIVE London's Venona choices.-Informing the Foreign Office.-Sir RogerMakins.-Mrs. Gray's August 2-3, 1944, "G" cable.-Maclean in Cairo.-Burgess and Blunt blunder.-Yuri Modin and Nikolai Rodin.-Philby's strange silence.-Three at Cambridge....................85
SIX Secluded in Washington.-Burgess as courier.-The Soviet illegal.-Mrs. Gray's "G" recovery.-"G" and the Churchill traffic.-Makins returns Maclean to the Foreign Office.-Under unofficial surveillance.-Moving toward closure.-The GOMMER cable.-Under official surveillance.-Philby informed.-Burgess returns to London.-The Maclean interrogation order....................97
SEVEN Making sense of it.-What everyone believed.-No more than two.-Miscalculation.-Yuri Modin's account.-A few red herrings.-Was Cairncross flummoxed?-Modin's network wiped out.-Philby ponders the past.-The enigmatic Jack Easton.-General Leslie Hollis visits the Joint Chiefs.-Sillitoe calls on Hoover.-MI5's Philby file.-The Volkov affair.-Litzi Philby.-Philby is offered Washington.-Makayev in New York....................113
EIGHT Dick White's dilemma.-Philby interrogated.-Moscow to London cables.-GCHQ's breakdown.-Unbelievable claims.- Disassociating Philby.-Historical differences.-Shadowing Klaus Fuchs.-Philby's London briefing.-Codebreaking secrets.-Distortion and disinformation.-Request for asylum.-Modin and Rodin at work.-Burgess to London.-Conspiracy of dunces....................135
NINE Misplaced in time.-The CIA orphan.-U.S. military weakness.-London's Russia Committee.-Secret USAF-RAF cooperation.-U.S. war plans.-The Soviet specter.-Searching for a strategy.-Political and psychological warfare.-The Berlin crises.-The bomb as a deterrent to war.-The Foreign Office rebuffs the military.-The threat to Western Europe.-Philby's unlimited potentialities....................159
TEN The CIA in transition.-Censure and scorn.-Admiral Hillenkoetter.-Philby and Angleton.-Delusional rubbish.-Albania and the Ukraine.-Displaced persons camps.-"A horrible mistake."-A pint-sized opportunity.-Philby's reports....................185
ELEVEN Moscow and the bomb.-Deterrent to war.-Black operations.-A basis for deception.-The forgotten chiefs of staff.-Finding an agent.-General Sibert.-The British fly solo.-Only in memory.-Unresolved ambiguities....................204
TWELVE Old myths revisited.-Why legends survive.-Field of vision.-Hijacking history.-Counterfeit cards.-No more to be learned.-The wartime generation.-The pygmy plan....................228
APPENDIX A: THE MACLEAN CABLES-THIRD NSA VENONA RELEASE, FEBRUARY 27, 1996....................233
APPENDIX B: MODIN'S MISTAKEN MEMOIRS....................239
NOTES....................245
INDEX....................287
Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess
