Donald Maclean
Date:
1957-1958
Reference:
KV 2/4158 (1)
Creator:
Security Service
Catalogue context:
Donald Duart MACLEAN, aliases Richard CURZON, Mark FRAZER, Percy MACLEAN, S MADZOEVSKY: British. Melinda Goodlett MACLEAN, aliases Melinda MARLING, Melinda PHILBY, Natasha FRAZER: American, British. A high flying employee of the Foreign Office, in 1951 Donald MACLEAN was identified as the source of a leakage from the Washington Embassy some years earlier. While under investigation he fled to the USSR with Guy BURGESS. He was assessed as having been a Soviet agent since the 1930s
Categories:
Military
Subjects:
Cold War; Europe and Russia; International
Topics:
International trade and affairs; Military and war
Period:
Postwar
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