407 ‘We’ll be back’: Andrew Boyle, Climate of Treason (London: Hutchinson), 1980, p. 403
407 4,605 documents: Miranda Carter, Blunt (London: Pan), 2002, p. 268
408 Blunt sweeps flat: Ibid., p. 346
410 ‘ABO’ more significant to moscow: This was the opinion of the KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky. Steven Merritt Miner, Stalin’s Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–5 (London: University of North Carolina Press), 2003, p. 278
410 ‘the NKVD’s most remarkable’: Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB (London: Hodder & Stoughton), 1990, p. 265
410 Smollett exaggerates Soviet concerns: Steven Merritt Miner, Stalin’s Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–45 (London: University of North Carolina Press), 2003, pp. 246–247
411 Smollett maintains USSR is weak: Anthony Glees, The Secrets of the Service (London: Jonathan Cape), 1987, p. 197
411 ‘the Ministry of Information’: Christopher Andrew, The Mitrokhin Archive (London: Allen Lane), 1999, p. 158
411 ‘red haze’: Hyde, I Believed, p. 123
411 ‘propaganda beyond price’: Miner, Stalin’s Holy War, p. 272
411 Smollett initially reports to Philby: Some have suggested that Smollett was recruited by Philby during the mid-1930s – Chapman Pincher, Their Trade Is Treachery (London: Sidgwick & Jackson), 1981, p. 114. Gordievsky and Andrew think he moved to London in 1933 ‘probably at Maly’s instigation, as an idealistic young NKVD illegal agent working under journalistic cover for a Viennese newspaper’. Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB (London: Hodder & Stoughton), 1990, p. 334
411–2 ‘the embarrassing friend’: Gordon Corera, The Art of Betrayal (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 2011, p. 19
412 Burgess told to drop Smollett: MADCHEN, file no. 83792, vol. 1, p. 216, quoted in Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels (London: HarperCollins), 1998, p. 157
412 ‘cooperation with the Russians’: KV 2/3040/128a
413 GP and Astor connection: Richard Cockett, David Astor and the Observer (London: Andre Deutsch), 1991, p. 102
413 ‘strong impression’: George Orwell, ‘Orwell’s List’, FO 1110/189/PR11/1135G
413 ‘Everything must wear a disguise’: John le Carré, A Perfect Spy (Penguin), Kindle version, page 69
414 ‘economic miracle’: Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Soviet Communism: A New Civilization? (London: Longmans), 1935 (a book later described by A. G. P. Taylor as ‘despite severe competition, the most preposterous ever written about Soviet Russia’)
414 possible American Communist Party link: This is based on conversations and correspondence with the historian Michael Weatherburn in early 2014, as well as Michael Weatherburn, ‘Motorcycles, Mattresses, and Microscopes’, 10 October 2012
414 ‘Received one packet’: The signature is that of Margaret Stewart and was found alongside papers dating from 1938
415 ‘all that I require’: GP Diary, January 1937
415 socialism using British political machine: Bernard Shaw, Labour Monthly, 1921
416 ‘with caution and jealousy’: GP Notebook, 14 August 1941
416 ‘a body of people’: Ibid., ‘July 20 to July 31, 1941’
416 GP flies to Paris: Contact might have come about through Pyke’s friend Konni Zilliacus MP, later described by Jürgen Kuczynski as ‘somebody we turned to for various ends’. – ‘Protokoll der Befragung des Genossen Professor Jürgen Kuczynski am 20.7.1953’, in SAPMO-BArch, DY 30/IV 2/4/123, Bl. 180–205; or perhaps through Pyke’s friend Harold Laski, a colleague of Kuczynski’s father Rene
416 ‘I made a report’: Jürgen Kuczynski to Hermann Matern, 22 September 1950, SAPMO-BArch, DY 30 / IV 2/4/113, p. 73 (a copy is among the Kuczynski papers held at Zentrale Landesbibliothek Berlin, Kuc8–2-M13)
417 ‘I learn more from these’: GP Diary, 25 August 1939
417 ‘Hitler and Chamberlain were both’: GP Unpublished MSS, 1 May 1941
417 £500 from Myers: GP Notebook, c. August 1939
418 ‘I had for many years’: Ibid., 27 August 1941
418 ‘the real war’: GP Diary, ‘War Aims’, 12 October 1939, p.18
419 ‘as remote from us’: Peter Conradi, A Very English Hero (Bloomsbury), 2012, Kindle Edition, p. 270
419 ‘It is everyone’s duty’: GP Diary, ‘War Aims’, 12 October 1939, p.18
420 GP plans to recruit communist translators: 30 October 1939 – ‘My dear Kuczynski, I return to the subject which I mentioned to you at our last meeting of help in a) marking for translation, and b) translating from foreign languages. I am very anxious to secure the help of your friends because at the moment I am getting help from people whose outlook is rather more to the right, and I shall be compelled to rely on people of this sort inevitably, if I cannot get help from people of your sort. I wonder therefore if you could find time to take the matter up with some of your friends?’ GP to Jürgen Kuczynski, 1 November 1939: ‘I did not make myself quite clear about the translators. I know that many of your friends cannot translate into decent English, but what I want is folk who can mark the significant articles in papers, which we can then get translated by those who can translate but have no political background.’ Kuc2–1-P1402-P1413_0010.
420 GP’s conversation with Watson: Robert Vansittart to Leo Amery, 19 July 1940
420 ‘every sign of being’: GP Diary, 16 October 1939
421 ‘excellent reason for’: GP to Leo Amery, 3 May 1940
422 ‘giving him all his stunt’: ‘Extract from Y.2127 re PYKE Geoffrey’, 15 September 1942, KV 2/3039/76b
422 ‘his terror at the thought’: Craig, Memoirs of a Thirties Dissident
423 ‘British subjects to do’: KV 2/3364/51b
423 ‘stood close to the English’: Jürgen Kuczynski to Hermann Matern, 22 September 1950, SAPMO-BArch, DY 30 / IV 2/4/113, p. 73 (a copy is among the Kuczynski papers held at Zentrale Landesbibliothek Berlin, Kuc8–2-M13)
424 ‘confidential contact’: Corera, The Art of Betrayal, p. 262
424 ‘from factories and the Forces’: Hyde, I Believed, p. 145
424 ‘to push the Communist’: ‘Extract from censors comment mentioning PYKE, Fritz Heine to R. Katz’, 14 November 1942, KV 2/3039/84b
427 ‘I am primarily’: GP to Ray Murphy, 7 October 1946
Epilogue, or, How to Think Like a Genius
429 ‘one of the most radical’: Anne Marie Rafferty, The Politics of Nursing Knowledge (London: Routledge), 1996, p. 157
429 bicycle-power companies: Electric Pedals: http://electricpedals.com/about-us/ and for the laptop: http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/pedal-powered-laptops-afghanistan/ both accessed on 24 November 2013
429 pedal-powered bar: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/pedal-powered-farms-and-factories.html accessed on 11 March 2014
429 ‘have been put to good’: Mark, From Small Organic Molecules, p. 101
429–30 Weasel tracked carries: Ten Weasels were used by a team of Canadian soldiers prospecting for minerals in Canada’s North-western Territories, ‘Exercise Musk-Ox’, Manchester Guardian, 22 April 1946; South Pole – Perutz, I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier, p. 87
430–1 ‘out of all proportion’: Mark Dudek, Architecture of Schools (Oxford: Architectural Press), 2000, p. 22
431 ‘one of the factors’: van der Eyken and Turner, Adventures in Education, p. 18
431 ‘played a key role’: Laura Cameron, ‘Science, Nature, and Hatred: “Finding Out” at the Malting House Garden School, 1924–29’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 24, No. 6, 2006, pp. 851–872
431 study of enormous value: Adrian Wooldridge, Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England, c. 1860-c.1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1994, p. 121
431 ‘a serious sociolo
gical study’: GP to Louis Mountbatten, 30 July 1943
431–2 ‘What made Pyke so’: Time, 8 March 1948
432 ‘the social and purposive’: GP to Kingsley Martin, 10 March 1946
432–3 ‘It is easier to solve’: GP to Jon Kimche, 14 January 1945
433 ‘My technique’: GP to Louis Mountbatten, ‘Cow thesis’, 16 April 1942
433 ‘The correct formulation’: GP to Palmer Putnam, US National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the OSRD, Division 12, Project Records 1940–45, OD-65
433–4 ‘One of my ideas’: GP to Louis Mountbatten, ‘Comments on Captain of Koeppenick’, 30 June 1942
434 ‘We cannot tell where’: GP, ‘Notes for Talk to Combined Operations Training School’, 21 January 1947
434 ‘not a question of ability’: GP to Louis Mountbatten, ‘Comments on Captain of Koeppenick’, 30 June 1942
435 ‘would rather wage’: Notes on Certain Phases of the Development of Weasel (with excerpts from the Project Log), 13 July 42, US National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the OSRD, NC-138, Entry 1, Office of the Chairman, NDRC, and the Office of the Director, OSRD: General Records, 1940–1947, Box 55
435 ‘heartily kicked’: GP to Louis Mountbatten, 26 April 1942
435 ‘the sport of shooting’: GP to Michael Foot, 5 September 1945
437 ‘even if you had’: Donald Tyerman to GP, 23 February 1948
439 ‘I have to behave’: GP to David Pyke, 1 February 1947
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