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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.
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Donald Maclean (spy) 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.
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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Among the most notorious of the traitors was Donald Maclean, a British diplomat and intelligence officer who disappeared in 1951 along with a fellow operative, Guy Burgess. Both resurfaced in Moscow.
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.
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.
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.
Donald Maclean (1913-83) was a British diplomat, Soviet agent and defector. Born in London, Maclean was the son of a British Member of Parliament and Leader of the Opposition. The young Maclean was therefore raised in a political environment and given a liberal education.
