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Donald Duart Maclean (/ m ə ˈ k l eɪ n /; 25 May 1913 – 6 March 1983) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent who participated in the Cambridge Five spy ring. After being recruited by a Soviet agent as an undergraduate student, Maclean entered the civil service .
6 days ago · Donald Maclean was a British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union in World War II and early in the Cold War period. At the University of Cambridge in the 1930s, Maclean was part of a group of relatively privileged young men, among them Guy Burgess, who all shared a fashionable disdain for.
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Maclean’s betrayal was a major blow to British intelligence at a critical time in history and the Cambridge Five spy ring - which included Maclean, Burgess, Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross - is still considered one of the most damaging espionage operations in British history.
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Apr 29, 2018 · An ideological communist whose core ideals managed to survive the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, he was to become as valued a spy for Moscow as Kim Philby. When Maclean was posted to Washington DC towards the end of the war the flow of information became even more vitally useful.
Jan 3, 2023 · Donald Duart Maclean was a senior British diplomat and a Soviet spy, part of a ring that became known as the Cambridge Five. In just the period between 1941 and 1945, he passed over 5000 documents to the USSR, including details of the atomic bomb.
u. v. w. x. y. z. Guy Burgess, one of the 'Cambridge Spies' © Maclean, Burgess, Philby and Blunt were British members of a KGB spy ring that penetrated the intelligence system of the UK and...
Mar 12, 1983 · Donald Maclean, the British diplomat who defected here in 1951 after betraying United States atomic secrets, was cremated here today after a brief funeral service at which he...
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