Author(s): James McNeish

NZ biography

'I think Costello was pursued by British Intelligence because there was an assumption that it might be an extension of the Philby "ring of five".' - Sir George Laking Auckland. Cambridge. Moscow. Paris. New Zealand's most brilliant envoy and the man who blew the whistle on Soviet possession of the atom bomb. The first western diplomat to penetrate the Nazi death camps at the end of the war, and General Fryberg's favourite intelligence officer. Paddy Costello was a scholar, a soldier, a diplomat, an exemplary father, a maverick, a lover of good wine. But was he also a spy? First published September 2007.