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Donald Duart Maclean ( / məˈkleɪn /; 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. In 1938, he was appointed as Third Secretary at the British embassy in Paris.
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Apr 29, 2024 · Donald Maclean (born May 25, 1913, London, Eng.—died March 11, 1983, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) 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 ...
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How to turn a British spy. Donald Maclean was born in 1913. His father, Sir Donald Maclean, was a Liberal Party MP and Opposition Leader from 1918 to 1920 so Maclean had a privileged upbringing and was educated at Cambridge University where he became a committed communist. There are differing reports about how Maclean was approached to spy for ...
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The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s until at least the early 1950s. None of the known members was ever prosecuted for spying. The number and membership of the ring emerged slowly, from the 1950s onwards ...
Apr 29, 2018 · For Maclean controlling that schizoid life soon became impossible – overtly serving one system and hating it while covertly yearning for and abetting another. Maybe that explains the paradoxical tranquillity of his modest Russian exile. He was finally happy – the spying was over. A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean Roland Philipps
Mar 12, 1983 · DONALD MACLEAN OF SPY FAME DIES. Share full article. By John F. Burns, ... The Izvestia item made no reference to Mr. Maclean's work as a spy for the Soviet Union, which began with his recruitment ...
Jan 3, 2023 · Donald Duart Maclean was born in London on 25 May 1913. His father was Sir Donald Maclean, a Liberal Party MP and Leader of the Opposition between 1918 and 1920. He studied at Gresham’s School in Norfolk where his contemporaries included another future Soviet spy, James Klugmann. In 1931, he went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge to read modern ...
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