Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction 1
Author's Note 4
Prologue - Moscow, April 1956 9
1 From Kayuki to Clapham, 1921-32 11
2 Born now bred, 1932-43 17
3 SOE 1 - Bingham's unit, 1943-44 23
4 SOE 2 - Coup defoudre, 1944 34
5 SOE 3 - Darters goes to war, 1944 41
6 Vienna role, 1946-48 52
7 A world changing, 1947-48 61
8 Into the lion's den. 1948-51 69
9 Moscow bound, 1951-54 79
10 Moscow 1 - Either silence or prison, 1954 88
11 Moscow 2 - The squirrel and his nuts, 1955 97
12 Moscow 3 - The strange affair of Yevgeni Brik, 1956 108
13 Moscow 4 - Annus horribilis, 1956 116
14 From SovBloc to sun-block, 1957-59 130
15 Congo 1 - Into the cauldron, 1959 138
16 Congo 2 - On the eve of destruction, 1959-60 144
17 Congo 3 - Seven months to murder, 1960-61 159
18 Congo 4 - Who killed Cock Robin? Not I, said the spy 1961 174
19 Bewitched, bothered, bewildered… and betrayed, 1962-64 182
20 Back in the held, 1964-67 196
21 Reform at last, 1967-69 204
22 Hanoi 1 - Spy station Hanoi, 1969-70 213
23 Hanoi 2 - 'Though never quite enough to ask for another year', 1969-70 223
24 What Daphne did next, 1970-74 239
25 C/WH 1 - Spymaster, 1975-77 245
26 C/WH 2 - Finale: Rhodesia and the ending of UDI, 1978-79 261
27 Return to Somerville, 1980-89 270
28 Daphne Park: a life extraordinary 276
Acknowledgements 286
Appendix: timeline of Daphne Park's life 288
Notes on Sources 290
Select Bibliography 315
Index 320