With many thanks to: Ihsan Amanatullah, Adam Behr, Stephen Dorril, Matthew Sweet, Alan Tong and Guy Walters.
Notes
Antony Terry worked for a newspaper group that syndicated its content in several countries, so many of his articles appeared in multiple publications, often with different headlines and slight variations in text. These sometimes appeared weeks or occasionally months apart; I’ve generally tried to cite the earliest examples I could find.
‘BIN’: ‘Intelligence Service BBC, usw....’, Horizont, March 1969, p20;
‘a flurry of scornful denials’: A typical example came from one of the accused journalists, the Sunday Times’ Washington correspondent Henry Brandon: ‘The Soviet press has always found it difficult to understand that the British press or British foreign correspondents work independently of their Government. It simply assumes that what applies to Soviet foreign correspondents must also be true of British foreign correspondents.’ ‘Russia Accuses Fleet Street’ by Kyril Tidmarsh, The Times, 21 December 1968. For more, listen to MI6 and the Media, Document, Radio 4, presented by Jeremy Duns, broadcast 4 March 2013, available from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r0hsx
‘the London Station’: see The Perfect English Spy by Tom Bower (Mandarin, 1996 edition), p159; No Other Choice by George Blake (Jonathan Cape, 1990), pp184-185; John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman (Bloomsbury, 2015), p210. An excellent summary of existing evidence for the network can be found in ‘Russia Accuses Fleet Street: Journalists and MI6 during the Cold War’ by Stephen Dorril, The International Journal of Press/Politics, vol. 20 no. 2, April 2015, pp204-227.
‘Z-1’: ‘Intelligence Service BBC, usw....’, Horizont, March 1969, p21.
‘the Z Organisation, a network of British businessmen’: MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery (Bloomsbury, 2010), p379.
‘Finally, it developed and controlled a network’: The Perfect English Spy, p159.
‘If large numbers of British journalists were also on M.I.6’s payroll’: Britain’s Secret Propaganda War by Paul Lashmar and James Oliver (Sutton Pub, 1999), p75.
‘expressly forbidden from taking part in the field’: Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett (Phoenix, 1996), pp122 and 139.
‘telling the Germans that all their U-boats leak’: ibid., p133.
‘the latter occasion had opened connections to the espionage world’: ibid., pp96-98.
‘likely been facilitated through his friendship with Fanny Vanden Heuvel’: ibid., p169.
‘over 20 British national and provincial newspapers and around 600 papers overseas’: British Newspapers and Their Controllers by Viscount Camrose (Cassell & Co, 1947), p69; British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War by John Jenks (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), p21.
‘As foreign manager of the Sunday Times and Kemsley Newspapers’: Lycett, p212.
‘On his office wall at Gray’s Inn Road’: ‘My Secret Life At The Sunday Times’ by Mark Edmonds, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012.
‘Visited in the evening by M.I.6 character’: January 12 1950 entry, Like It Was: A Selection from the Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge, edited by John Bright-Holmes (Collins, 1981), p371.
‘one of the largest rings of intelligence officers’: ‘Good spies like to be in the news’ by Phillip Knightley, The Sunday Times, 20 December 1998.
‘a cocktail of duplicitous charm and amorality’: I Spy by Geoffrey Elliott (Little, Brown & Co, 1998), p22.
‘the Times noted only two of his four marriages’: Obituary of Terry, The Times, 3 October 1992.
‘prodigious memory and relentless attention to detail’: ‘Veteran reporter Terry dies at 79; Antony Terry’ by Paul Eddy, Sunday Times, 4 October 1992.
‘giant’: Obituary of Antony Terry by Cal McCrystal, The Independent, 2 October 1992.
‘a one-man listening post, a fastidious checker of facts: ibid.
‘Born in London in 1913’: Obituary of Terry, The Times.
‘writing articles for the Sunday Dispatch from the age of 14’: Berlin to Bond and Beyond by Judith Lenart (Athena Press, 2007), p14.
‘virulently opposed to the idea of having children’: ibid., p49.
‘Griffiths remarried, becoming Julia Greenwood’: ‘Julia Eileen Courtney Greenwood’, Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2001, Biography in Context; and various marriage certificates.
‘George Orwell favourably reviewed’: Review of A Foolish Wind by George Orwell, Manchester Evening News, 7 November 1946.
‘Anton Schroder’: Appendix I, Berlin to Bond and Beyond.
‘very effective and valued interrogator’: see The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre by Helen Fry (Yale University Press, 2017), p39 and the other references to him peppered throughout the book.
‘‘hot’ intelligence’: The London Cage, p40.
‘at great personal risk, armed only with a revolver’: Military Cross Citation for Antony Terry, January 1946, British National Archives, WO 373/100/523.
‘Major Terry and his men drew German fire’: Obituary of Terry, The Times.
‘a radio set built from components’:.I Spy, p127.
‘hidden inside a gramophone’: ibid.
‘the shit with the glasses’: Cited in Berlin to Bond and Beyond, p27. I haven’t been able to trace the programme in question.
‘visiting Dachau’: The London Cage, pp173-181.
‘Fleming had drafted a memo’: ‘Proposal for Naval Intelligence Commando Unit’, Ian Fleming, 20 March 1942, British National Archives, ADM 223/500
‘either a bachelor or a solidly married man’: The Kemsley Manual of Journalism (Cassell & Co, 1950), p244.
‘one of his girlfriends at the time’: Berlin to Bond and Beyond, p45.
‘arranged the cover’: Lycett, p169.
‘he had had a tough time, but he had held up well’: I Spy, p210.
‘a highly trusted and capable freelancer’: Berlin to Bond and Beyond, p52.
‘enjoyed the right of direct communication with the Intelligence Directorate in London’: The Tiger, Life by Sarah Gainham, 1983, pp173-174.
‘It was nothing to see a Russian soldier raise the stock of his machine pistol’: ‘Smolka “The Spy”’: a letter from Vienna’ by Sarah Gainham, Encounter, December 1984, pp 78-79.
‘codenamed ABO’: The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (Penguin, 2000), p84.
‘Picture Post wanted an article’: ‘Smolka “The Spy”, pp 78-79.
‘This was Graham Greene’: British Cinema and the Cold War by Tony Shaw (I.B. Taurus, 2001), p28.
‘According to Smolka’s godson’: ‘My Spy’ by Peter Foges.
‘I shall never mind being beaten on spot news’: Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 4 October 1949, Yours Ever, Ian Fleming, edited by Judith Lenart (Printhouse Nelson, 1994), pp10-11.
‘particularly well-informed, especially regarding Russian manoeuvres in Germany’: Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 20 October 1949. Yours Ever, pp11-12.
‘tabloiditis’: Letter from Antony Terry to unnamed correspondent, 19 January 1990, Berlin to Bond and Beyond, p167.
‘a trail of murder and rioting wherever he goes’: ‘Herr Bormann—What Next’ by Antony Terry, The Singapore Free Press, 14 February 1952.
‘Martin Borman, under his new name, “Borner,”’: ‘Bormann Reported in Russia’ by Anton (sic) Terry, The Marion Star, Ohio, 13 October 1952.
‘the new Nazi Fuhrer of Germany’: ‘New Nazis Will Eye Berlin Trial Anxiously’ by Anthony (sic) Terry, The Singapore Free Press, 29 July 1952.
‘Fritz Roessler, alias Franz Richter’: ‘Reds Support Families of Jailed Nazis, NANA-Kemnews, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 13 April 1952.
‘There’s always been a reluctance on the part of Whitehall to pursue these people’: ‘Secret report names SS man’ by Barrie Penrose and David Connett, The Sunday Times, 24 April 1988.
‘A British Press correspondent in Germany, named Antony TERRY’: Letter from Sir Percy Sillitoe, M.I.5., to Major General J.A. Brink, Commissioner of South African Police, 31 March 1952. British National Archives, KV 2/3033, p15.
‘American intelligence officials in Berlin arrested Gero Von Galera’: ‘U.S. Agents Seize Baron’, Reuters, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 August 1952.
‘amateur spy’: ‘The Spy Tangle of Berlin’ by Antony Terry, The Straits Times, Singapore, 12 December 1957.
‘Terry would likely also have been on their distribution list’: see British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War by Jenks, p85.
‘Divall had been in the Royal Marines’: M.I.6.: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service by Stephen Dorril (Touchstone, 2000),p296.
‘developed a talent for running agents’: ibid.
‘JUNK’: ibid. Divall was evidently the inspiration for the character of Charles Henry Duggan in Anthony Horowitz’s 2015 Bond novel Trigger Mortis.
‘According to an article on the ‘Goldfinger’-style operation’: ‘A Spy Tale With A Real Goldfinger’ by Antony Terry, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 10 March 1968.
‘Can’t see a man of his type and mentality doing himself in’: Transcript of call between Divall and Terry, 6 November 1991, Berlin to Bond and Beyond, pp137-138.
‘With Jewish people it’s all one firm’: ibid.
‘Following our conversation I have had some talks’: letter from Terry to unnamed correspondent, 7 November 1991, Berlin To Bond and Beyond, p140.
‘The other suggestion I have come across’: ibid.
‘nothing more nor less than a bloody KGB agent’: ibid., p138.
‘Terry tracked down former concentration camp officials’: See Flames In The Field by Rita Kramer (Michael Joseph, 1995), pp182-183.
‘Anglo-American intelligence sources’: ‘Red A-Bomb Rocket Bases In Europe’, The Singapore Free Press, 26 September 1949.
‘reliable sources in the East German government’: ‘Red-Controlled V-2 Base Threatens British Zone’ by Antony Terry, The Evening Review, Ohio, 29 October 1952.
‘secret, atom proof island fortress in the Baltic’: ‘Britain, Red Target’, The Marion Star, Ohio, 27 February 1953.
‘Using German rocket experts sent from Russia’: ibid.
‘British intelligence in Germany, working on agents’ reports’: ‘Reds’ V-Bombs Ready to Sweep All of Europe’ by Antony Terry, The Boston Sunday Globe, 31 May 1953.
‘This is what eye witnesses have told of the Soviet scheme’: ibid.
‘fantastic plan’: ibid.
‘building a superhelicopter of his own design’: ‘German Scientists Keep Busy In Exile, Awaiting Comeback of Fatherland’, Antony Terry, Syracuse Herald-American, 28 February 1954.
‘Many were contradictory’: See, for instance, ‘Airfield and Seaplane Base of Bug, Isle of Ruegen’, 29 March 1950, C.I.A., Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004700530001-8; and the numerous follow-ups to it.
‘You must know thrilling things before you can write about them’: How To Write A Thriller by Ian Fleming, Show, August 1962.
‘For Casino Royale, he sought out background information’: The pearl of days: an intimate memoir of the Sunday Times, 1822-1972 by Harold Hobson and others (Hamish Hamilton, 1972), p260.
‘Dear Tony, Many thanks for the V-2 book’: Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 1 September 1953, Yours Ever.
‘widespread plot’: ‘Germans Uncover Widespread Plot To Revive Nazi Werewolf Gangs’, Deseret News, October 30 1952.
‘The V-weapon men wear’: ‘Reds’ V-Bombs Ready to Sweep All of Europe’ by Antony Terry, The Boston Sunday Globe, 31 May 1953.
‘In February 1954, Terry replied to a request’: Letter from Antony Terry to Ian Fleming, 2 February 1954, Yours Ever, p50.
‘In June 1956, Ian Fleming and his wife Ann visited Bonn’: Lycett, pp290-1.
‘shovel it into the Kemsley machine’: Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 20 June 1956, Yours Ever.
‘a couple of addresses in Berlin’: Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 12 July 1956, Yours Ever.
‘next opus: ibid.
‘I hope successful, efforts to get Sarah Gainham’s excellent work into the Sunday Times and also the Group machinery’: ibid.
‘excellent thriller’: ‘Forever Ambler’ by Ian Fleming, The Sunday Times, 1 July 1956. Lycett suggests this review was part of Fleming’s attempts to ingratiate himself with Ambler, who he often had lunch with, and who introduced him to his literary agent, Peter Janson-Smith (p278). Supporting this, Fleming called The Night-Comers ‘better than the last two but still not quite the good old stuff we remember’ in a letter to Raymond Chandler, while the review was much more enthusiastic, hailing it as a return to form and concluding ‘it is very good to have this fine writer back with us again’. His letters show he was quite often more generous in reviews than in private. Fleming to Chandler, 22 June 1956, printed in The Man with the Golden Typewriter, edited by Fergus Fleming (Bloomsbury, 2015), p230.
‘Ambler’s publisher were using an excerpt’: Heinemann advertisement, The Guardian, 13 July 1956, p6.
Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 12 July 1956, Yours Ever.
‘Accompanying the 3,000-word document’: Letter from Antony Terry to Ian Fleming, 15 July 1956, Yours Ever.
‘…from the office he made straight for the Soviet Sector’: Letter from Antony Terry to Ian Fleming, 15 July 1956, Yours Ever.
‘vast and splendid memorandum’: Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 17 July 1956, Yours Ever.
‘You really shouldn’t have taken so much trouble’: ibid.
‘he wanted to buy a new car’: Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 18 August 1959, Yours Ever.
‘Terry showing him around Hamburg: Lycett, p354.
‘spook’s tours’: ibid., p371.
‘In September 1960, Fleming asked Terry for help’: Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 9 September 1960, Yours Ever.
‘an allegory of the life of Fleming himself!’: ‘Bond’s Last Case’ by Philip Larkin, The Spectator, 8 July 1966.
‘arouse memories of our stay in Berlin and of the ‘friend’ we met when there’: Letter from Ian Fleming to Antony Terry, 31 October 1961, Yours Ever.
‘and the West Berlin authorities try to discourage West Berliners from going there’: Antony Terry to Ian Fleming, 4 November 1961, ibid.
‘We are accustomed to getting good service from Terry in Berlin’: Memorandum from G. Grafton Green to Ian Fleming, 22 December 1953, auction catalogue, IAA International Autograph Auctions.
‘After they passed, shadows flitted along the street’: Atticus, The Sunday Times, 18 November 1956.
‘Antony Terry of the Sunday Times, his wife and I’: Hungarian Tragedy by Peter Fryer (Index Books, 1997 –reprint, first published in 1956), pp83-84.
‘I had a special feeling for using the thriller’: Who’s Who In Spy Fiction by Donald McCormick, pp82-83.
‘Schill appears to have been based on Hans Bartschat’: ‘Reds Jailed Her Husband As Spy, Escapee Relates’, NANA, The Marion Star, Marion, Ohio, 27 May 1954.
‘Gainham’s next novel, The Mythmaker’: The text about this novel here is adapted from a previous essay of mine, ‘In Fleming’s Footsteps’, published on my website on 21 March 2013.
‘highly intelligent and accomplished’: Lycett, p371.
‘pre-puberty’: ibid.
‘ingenious, stylish, amusingly informative’, ‘well-plotted’: ‘It’s A Crime’ column, Christopher Pym, The Spectator, 22 November 1957.
‘well-written, thoughtful and intelligent thriller’: ‘Crime Ration’ column, Maurice Richardson, The Observer, 29 December 1957.
‘Perhaps she does the cause of Western diplomacy no favor’: ‘Survival Fight in Red Domain’ by C.W. Johnson, Springfield Leader and Press (Springfield Missouri), 28 June 1959.
‘always wished I had taken a man's name for my pseudonym’: Who’s Who In Spy Fiction, p82.
‘topping the New York Times list for months and giving her financial security for the rest of her life’: Independent obituary.
‘The forty years’ anniversary goes back’: Letter from Antony Terry to unnamed correspondent, 15 September 1987, Berlin to Bond and Beyond, pp161-162.
‘various memoirs’: see for example I Spy. He also crops up in But What Did You Actually Do? by Alistair Horne (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011), who also reveals in the book that he carried out a similar role to Terry for M.I.6 while The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Bonn.
‘In February 2018, the SundayTimes reported’: ‘David Floyd: the traitor who was forgiven and forgotten’ by Jeff Hulbert, TheSunday Times, 25 February 2018.
‘Is this man who he says he is?’: Sisman, p100.
‘A new possibility had arisen’: ibid., p139.
‘committing myself to something I don’t really want to do’: ibid., p149.
‘the model for Percy Alleline’: ibid., p210.
Le Carré and Elliott eventually became friends’: see le Carré’s afterword to A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre (Bloomsbury, 2014).
‘to investigate and detect potential Nazi cells’: Sisman, p223.
‘We were fifteen years after the end of the hot war’: ‘John le Carré in Conversation’ at the Royal College of Music, London, interviewed by Anne McElvoy, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 29 July 2013.
‘John was constantly ruminating’: Les maîtres espions: Tome 2 (Robert Laffont, 1994), p438. Quoted excerpt translated by me. Faligot confirmed the quotes via email, saying he had initially been put onto the connection by a journalist friend of Terry. (Email to author, June 13 2018.)
‘Perhaps it was inevitable that the press’: Sisman, p251.
‘had been far removed from the fiendishly clever conspiracy’: Introduction to the Lamplighter edition of the novel, 1991.
‘U.S Congress’s House of Representatives’: Proceedings of Congress and General Congressional Publications, Cong. Rec. (Bound)—House of Representatives: March 25, 1963, Volume 109, Part 4 (March 15, 1963 to April 3, 1963). Available from: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1963-pt4/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1963-pt4-5-2.pdf
Terry’s article appears and is discussed on pp25-26. A shorter version of the article appeared in several American newspapers, eg ‘400 German Experts Build Egypt Rocket’ by Antony Terry, The Los Angeles Times, 24 March 1963.
‘On 23 July, the Sunday Times’: ‘The Secret Lifeline for ex-Nazis on the Run’ by Antony Terry, TheSunday Times, 23 July 1967.
‘It still has branches in West Germany’: ibid.
‘ODESSA’s leaders’: ibid.
‘vast and sinister network of former Nazis’: Hunting Evil by Guy Walters (Bantam, 2010 paperback edition), p202.
‘globalized tentacled monster’: ibid., p203.
‘highly secret society of cunning former S.S. men’: ibid., pp201, 203.
‘grossly exaggerated: ibid., p223.
‘If Terry’s editor had known’: ibid.,p225.
‘a mile inland from the west bank of the Parana river’: ‘Former SS Man Tells ‘True’ Bormann Story’ by Antony Terry, Los Angeles Times, 7 January 1968.
‘triggered by Forsyth reading’: ‘The truth behind The Odessa File and Nazis on the run’ by Guy Walters, The Daily Telegraph, 1 December 2010.
‘take up a position at the London Station’: No Other Choice by George Blake, pp182 -184.