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- Counsellor 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 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 .
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.
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.
Mar 12, 1983 · Donald Duart Maclean was a principal actor in Britain's most sensational and longest-running espionage drama. He fled to Moscow when British counterintelligence caught on to...
Jul 7, 2014 · Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, "Kim" Philby and Anthony Blunt were recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s. There may have been a fifth spy in the ring, possibly John...
Donald Duart Maclean (25 May 1913 – 6 March 1983) was a British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five spy ring, along with Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, which conveyed government secrets to the Soviet Union.
