• On emerging from Russia, Jones made a statement
which, startling
though it sounded, was little more than a summary of what the correspondents and foreign diplomats
had told him. To protect us… he emphasized his Ukrainian foray rather than our
conversations
as the chief source of his information.
• In any case… with preparations
under way for the trial of the British [Metrovik] engineers, the need to remain on
friendly terms with
the censors … was for all of us a compelling professional necessity.
• Throwing down Jones was as
unpleasant a chore as fell to any of us in years of juggling facts to please
dictatorial regimes, but throw him down we did… Poor Gareth Jones must
have been the
most surprised human being alive when the facts he so painstakingly garnered from our mouths
were snowed under by our denials.