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came back with his number. I made a couple of calls but I knew I would be too scared to go through
with it.

Then Hagley appeared, like manna from heaven. He was an out and out crook and could see a way
of making money from my situation. He wanted to take over everything and when he suggested he
should go to London, as me, to blackmail MI6, I could see my way out of my predicament.

He knew nothing of the Guatemalan Memo; he thought he was going to blackmail them for being
paid by Washington. He telephoned me to say he had arranged a meeting with MI6 at a pub, the
Bricklayers just behind the Cumberland Hotel. He said he had told them to bring fifty thousand

pounds as a measure of their goodwill. I knew he would never get away with it. That is when I
decided to become Hagley. I had Hagley’s codebook and contact details so I informed his handler
about the meeting. The only thing left for me was to clear the decks completely and get the memo
back into the hands of British Intelligence. Once I had done that then I was certain the whole affair
would be over.

I decided to go to London and hand the memo over to MI6. I sent another coded message to
Hagley’s handler to arrange a meeting.’

‘How did you get to London, presumably Hagley was using your passport?’

‘I thought about using Hagley’s passport but that might probably by now be on an alert. I had
obtained a passport in my original name, Caldicot, some months earlier but the association with

Warner meant that too might flag up. The safest passport, ironically, was the one the Russians had
provided.

I had no idea Hagley’s contact was a woman. I tricked her into revealing herself and gave her the
memo in the back of a taxi’

‘How long were you with her in the taxi?’

‘I don’t know, around ten minutes or so.’

‘So what did you do when you got out of the taxi, did she stay in the cab?’

‘I got out and the cab drove off. I was dropped right outside an underground station so I got the
tube back to my Hotel near Heathrow.’

‘Which one?’

‘Hotel?’

‘No. Underground station’

‘I think it was called Royal Park.’

‘Park Royal?’