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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 .

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   May 21, 2024 · 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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   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.

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   The general public first became aware of the conspiracy in 1951 after the sudden flight of Donald Maclean (1913–1983, codename Homer) and Guy Burgess (1911–1963, codename Hicks) to the Soviet Union.

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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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   Donald Duart Maclean 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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   Who is Donald Maclean?

   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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.

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   How did Donald Maclean meet Guy Burgess?

   • Donald Maclean met Guy Burgess as a student at the University of Cambridge in the early 1930s. Having both disagreed with the idea of capitalism, they were recruited by Soviet intelligence operatives and became undercover agents. Maclean began delivering information to the Soviet operatives as a member of the Foreign Office in 1934.

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   Did Maclean tell Marling he was a spy?

   • Maclean had told Marling about his role as a spy. He told Harris that Marling not only reacted positively, but "actually promised to help me to the extent that she can – and she is well connected in the American community".

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   When did Donald Maclean leave the Soviet Union?

   • It was the first time I heard of Donald Maclean. I very much doubt if the joke would detonate now. Donald Maclean along with Guy Burgess, two senior British diplomats, defected to the Soviet Union in 1951 although their presence there was not admitted until 1956.

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   Oct 23, 2015 · Philby warned Maclean of the imminent danger and he fled, with Burgess, to the Soviet Union. The files released today contain detailed reports and intercepted correspondence which provide...