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Acknowledgements

This is a book about secret intelligence and, as such, obviously very few of the dozens who assisted me will thank me for mentioning them here, or highlighting their particular role in the book. You know who you are and I thank you for your patience, your trust that I would try my best to portray your profession faithfully and your tolerance of my criticisms. I beg forgiveness if, despite your best efforts, I have failed to grasp the point. There is, of course, a warm beer behind the bar for you – preferably at the Gandamack Lodge, when it reopens.

There are some, however, who must be thanked publicly. With me throughout, as she was with
Ghost Plane
and
Operation Snakebite,
has been the unstoppable and razor-sharp researcher Christina Czapiewska, who had a lot to contribute too from her own personal knowledge and contacts. At different times, I also had tremendous additional research help from Lucy Bond, Jerome Taylor and Daniel Douglas. Particular thanks to my old friend John Goetz, who helped me explore the world of German espionage. And also to Stelios Orphanides, who helped track down EOKA fighters, and thank you to Susan Hollowday for sharing Zanina Hollowday's beautiful diary of her time in Cyprus. Thanks to Spanish investigative journalist Marco García Rey for his great assistance on the F1 case in Barcelona: I hope we shall keep digging into that one. I must also thank the hyper-generous Philippe Madelin, who helped set up interviews in Paris but sadly died in 2010. I also appreciate the help of the group of cage-prisoners in arranging several interviews.

Thanks too to colleagues who shared some of their adventures, enabling me to learn more about the intelligence world, and to those who have encouraged and funded these trips, in particular David Fanning and Dan Edge at PBS
Frontline
(Dan, I thank you unforgivably late for proofreading my last book); Dorothy Byrne and Kevin Sutcliffe of Channel 4; Kate Clark of the Afghan Analysts Network and Afghan producer Shoaib Sharifi; Sean Ryan at the
Sunday Times;
Michael Williams and Simon Robinson at Reuters. Thanks to all at Reuters for giving me time to finish this project. And I would especially like to thank my friend Mark Hosenball, Washington intelligence correspondent, who advised me throughout and introduced me to some of his key contacts. Thanks too to Gordon Corera and David Loyn at the BBC.

This book had many inspirations, but it only came to be thanks to an idea and commission from Penguin's Tony Lacey and Jon Elek (now working at a leading London literary agency), after an introduction by my old friend Jason Burke. Michael Flamini at St Martin's Press in New York was an enthusiastic and wise supporter throughout, as was Joel Rickett, who took over the project at Penguin and reinvigorated it – and me! In production, Lesley Levene and Emma Brown carefully took the project to the finish line. Thanks too to my agents, first Emma Parry and then Grainne Fox, for their constant encouragement. Thank you all for bearing with me.

Thanks too to those who took the time and trouble to read the manuscript and make suggestions, including J and J, two wise ex-professionals from different sides of the Atlantic, my dear friend Rupert Chetwynd and of course my wife, Rebecca, for her suggestions and, above all, her steadfast loving support.

As ever, the errors are mine alone.

Index

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In Arabic names the definite article (al-), used as a prefix, is ignored in the ordering
of entries.

Aalem, Mohamed (aka Mohamed Amin)

misidentification as Amanullah

Abbottabad

ABC
Nightline

Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk

Able Archer (NATO exercise)

Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti

Abu Hamza (Mustafa Kamel Mustafa)

Abu Nidal Organization

Abu Qatada (Omar Mahmoud Othman)

Abu Zubaydah

Adams, Gerry

Adams, Gerry Snr

Adams family

Adebolajo, Michael

Afghan Analysts Network

Afghanistan

1980s Afghan War

Bagram airbase

bin Laden in

Britain's First Afghan War

CIA bases in

CIA covert war against the Soviets

Crooke in

National Directorate of Security (NDS)

and NATO

Pashto language

and the SIS

Soviets in

training camps

see also
Khost; Takhar; Taliban

Afridi, Shakil

Ahmed, Abdul Hafeez

Akhtar, Saeed

Akrotiri

Albania

and Operation Valuable

Alec Station

Algeria

Civil War

war of independence

Algiers bombing

Ali, Rafqat

Allen, Mark

Alshishani, Asadullah

Alwan, Rafid Ahmed (Curveball)

Amanullah, Zabet

misidentified as Amin (Aalem)

Ames, Aldrich

Amin, Mohamed
see
Aalem, Mohamed

Amman

Anderson, Garry

Andrew, Christopher

Angleton, James

Al-Ansar

Antoniades, Andrew/Andreas (Keravnos)

code name Mario

Antoniades, Fahim

Antoniades, Hafiza

AQAP
see
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade

Arab–Israeli conflict

Arab Spring

Arafat, Yasser

Archangel

Arghawan, Afghan driver

Armed Islamic Group
see
GIA

Asim (Agent F1)

al-Assad, Bashar

Associated Press

atomic bomb

see also
nuclear capabilities/conflict

Atta, Mohamed

Awlaki, Anwar

Baader-Meinhof

Baer, Robert

Baginski, Maureen

Bagram airbase

Baker, Nick

al-Balawi, Defne

al-Balawi, Humam (aka Abu Dujanah al-Khorasani)

code name Agent Panzer

code name Wolf

al-Balawi, Leyla

al-Balawi, Lina

Baldwin, Stanley

epigraph

Baquero, Antonio

Barcelona terrorist plot

Barot, Dhiren

Bearden, Milton

The Main Enemy
(with James Risen)

Beirut

Belfast

Belgium

Bell, Gertrude

Bergdahl, Bowe

Bergen, Peter

Berlin Wall