Last of the Cold War Spies (60 page)

7
. Ibid.

8
.
New Republic,
March 1947.

9
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, pp. 206–207.

10
. Dartington Hall visitor’s book signatures show Michael Straight’s arrival on April 7, 1947.

11
.
London Times
, April 7 and 8, 1947.

12
. White and Maze,
Henry Wallace,
pp. 246–247.

13
.
Chicago Sun
, April 9, 1947.

14
. Conservative Party Archives, London. Winston Churchill’s speeches, 1947.

15
.
Chicago Sun
, April 12, 1947.

16
. Schmidt,
Henry A. Wallace
.

17
. Straight,
After Long Silence,
p. 209.

18
. Ibid.

19
. FBI interviews with Michael Straight, p. 14.

20
. Ibid.

21
. Straight,
After Long Silence,
p. 209.

22
. White and Maze,
Henry A. Wallace,
p. 250.

23
. Ibid., p. 251

24
.Straight,
After Long Silence,
p. 210.

25
. Ibid., p. 214.

26
. Meyer,
Facing Reality,
pp. 51–55.

27
. Ibid.

28
. Ibid., p. 55.

29
. Ibid.

30
. Interview with Cord Meyer, October 1996. According to Meyer, Miler, and other CIA operatives, Straight believed that KGB defector Anatoli Golitsyn told the FBI (and the CIA) that he (Straight) was active as a KGB agent and that one of his missions was at the AVC.

31
. White and Maze,
Henry A. Wallace,
p. 254.

32
. Schmidt,
Henry A. Wallace,
p. 73.

1
.
New Republic,
January 21, 1948.

2
. Schmidt,
Henry A. Wallace.

3
.
New Republic,
April 5, 1948.

4
. Straight,
After Long Silence,
p. 231.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid., p. 229.

7
. Ibid., p. 227.

8
. “There Are Great Fears,”
New Republic,
March 22, 1948.

9
. “Trial by Congress,”
New Republic,
August 16, 1948.

10
. Information from Verne Newton, who spoke with Bin and Michael Straight and was in correspondence with Dr. Welderhall.

11
. FBI interviews with Michael Straight, report of July 31, 1975.

12
. Newton,
The Cambridge Spies,
pp. 220–221.

13
. Meyer,
Facing Realities,
p. 55, and interview with Cord Meyer, October 1996.

14
. Interview with Cord Meyer, October 1996.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Ibid.

17
.
New Republic,
May 2, 1949.

1
. Interview with Barkovsky, October 1996.

2
. Perry,
The Fifth Man,
pp. 116–117. The Barkovsky information provided the missing link in this revealing espionage scenario involving Oliphant (innocently), Rothschild, Blunt, and Barkovsky.

3
. NKVD/KGB file, no. 13676, vol. 1. This reveals Maclean’s message.

4
. Interview with Barkovsky, October 1996.

5
.
Physics Today,
November 1996, p. 51.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Sudoplatov, Sudoplatov, Schecter,
Special Tasks
, p. 207.

9
. Interview with Barkovsky, October 1996.

10
. Oppenheimer, “A Letter from the Chief of Los Alamos,”
New Republic,
June 6, 1949; and Szilard, “America, Russia, and the Bomb,”
New Republic,
October 31, 1949.

11
. Dartington Hall visitor’s book.

12
. Michael Straight makes several references to his meeting with Burgess and Blunt in 1949 in
After Long Silence.

13
. Interview with a former senior operative in British intelligence, September 1996.

14
. Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
p. 767.

1
. From the HUAC hearing on legislation to outlaw un-American and subversive activities; see the complete transcript, including the written legal brief, pp. 2211–2225, March 21–23 and March 28, 1950.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Ibid. Italics added.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ibid.; and interview with William Elmhirst, March 1998.

12
. HUAC hearing on legislation to outlaw un-American and subversive activities.

13
.
New Republic
, May 1, 1950.

14
.
New Republic
, April 3 and 10, 1950.

15
. Interview with Barkovsky, October 1996.

16
. Copy of poem given to author by Diana Barnato-Walker during interviews, August 1999.

17
. Interview with William Elmhirst, March 1998.

1
. Interviews with Modin, October 1993; see also Modin’s book,
My Five
Cambridge Friends
, pp. 181–184.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Interviews with Modin and other KGB sources, June 1993 and October 1996; see also the article by Roy Medvedev in the
Washington Post,
June 19, 1983.

4
.Interviews with Modin, October 1993.

5
. Straight,
After Long Silence,
pp. 249–251.

6
. Sidney Hook, “The Incredible Story of Michael Straight,”
Encounter,
February 1983.

7
. William Safire, “The Michael Straight,”
New York Times,
January 10, 1983.

8
. Review by Raymond A. Scroth,
America,
May 1983.

9
. Costello,
Mask of Treachery,
pp. 470–471.

1
. From interviews with family members, September 1997.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Private diary of Whitney; also interviews with family members, September 1997.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Interview with William Elmhirst, March 1997.

1
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, p. 297.

2
. Ibid., p. 262.

3
. Ibid., p. 276.

4
. Ibid., p. 277.

5
. Ibid., p. 278.

6
. Transcripts of hearings before the House Select Committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations and comparable organizations, November and December 1952.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, pp. 283–284.

11
. Ibid., p. 265.

12
. Straight,
Trial by Television,
p. 71.

13
. Ibid., p. 88.

1
. Straight,
After Long Silence,
p. 290.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Costello,
Mask of Treachery
, p. 476.

5
. U.S. Senate, report of the Committee on the Judiciary,
Report on the IPR:
Report no. 2050, 83d Congress, 2nd Section, p. 97.

6
. Letters from Edward C. Carter to W. L. Holland, May 6, 1940, reproduced in IPR Hearings, p. 3924; and IPR Hearings, p. 3794.

7
. Hearing before the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board, pp. 6, 19–20.

8
. Interview with former CIA agent Newton Miler, July 1977; also FBI file, 1963-75.

9
. Straight,
Nancy Hanks
, p. 46.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ibid.

1
. Interview with Cord Meyer, October 1996.

2
. Meyer,
Facing Realities
, pp. 125–126.

3
. Interview with Cord Meyer, October 1996.

4
.
New Republic,
February 4, 1957.

5
. Interview with Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight, July 1996.

6
. Vidal,
Palimpsest
, p. 11.

7
. Interview with William Elmhirst, August 1997.

8
. Transcript of Michael Straight interview with John Milton, p. 122.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ibid., p. 124.

12
. Dench, Flower, and Gavron, eds.,
Young at Eighty,
p. 157.

13
. Young,
The Rise of the Meritocracy,
pp. 150–151. Italics added.

14
. Interviews with Nina Straight; also interviews with William Elmhirst, August 1997.

1
. Interview with family members, July 1996.

2
. Interview with Nina Straight, September 1996.

3
. See Straight,
Happy and Hopeless,
especially the first three chapters. Jackie trusted Straight and asked him to sit next to her daughter Caroline’s prospective mother-in-law, Mae Schlossberg, at the wedding dinner at Hyannis in July 1968. Straight appreciated the honor. In 1981 Jackie bought a property at Martha’s Vineyard just two miles from Straight’s home. This maintained their long-term friendship, as did Straight’s marriage to Jackie’s stepsister Nina.

4
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, p. 315.

1
. Wright,
Spycatcher,
pp. 174–180.

2
. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000.

3
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, p. 316.

4
. Ibid., pp. 317–318.

5
. Ibid., p. 318.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Interview with Verne Newton, who was told of JFK’s comments by Walton, July 1996.

9
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, p. 320.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ibid., p. 322.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Interview with Lord Longford, March 1983.

16
. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000.

17
. The source for the possible Rose-Niarchos link is a New York lawyer.

18
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, p. 323.

19
. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000. Mary had left Cord in 1957 and moved into a town house on Georgetown’s N Street, the favored district of Washington’s political leaders, journalists and lobbyists. She was a painter and regarded as a liberated woman for the time. Now single, she took many lovers, including the abstract painter, Kenneth Noland. She confided to one-time vice-president of the
Washington Post,
James Truitt, that she had an affair with Kennedy. Mary kept a diary and it detailed her time with him. According to one of her closest companions, she had a strong theory about the reasons for Kennedy’s assassination, which distressed her.

20
. Interview with William Elmhirst, September 2000.

21
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, p. 323.

1
. Straight,
After Long Silence
, p. 324.

2
. Ibid., pp. 324–325.