Maclean, Donald Duart
Maclean, Donald Duart
English spy who worked for the USSR while in the UK civil service. He defected to the USSR in 1951 together with Guy Burgess.
Maclean, brought up in a strict Presbyterian family, was educated at Cambridge University, where he was recruited by the Soviet KGB. He worked for the Foreign Office in Washington in 1944 and then in Cairo in 1948 before returning to London, becoming head of the US department at the Foreign Office in 1950.
Maclean, brought up in a strict Presbyterian family, was educated at Cambridge University, where he was recruited by the Soviet KGB. He worked for the Foreign Office in Washington in 1944 and then in Cairo in 1948 before returning to London, becoming head of the US department at the Foreign Office in 1950.
© RM 2009. Helicon Publishing is division of RM.
Encyclopaedia Search
Advertisement starts
Advertisement ends
Advertisement starts
Advertisement ends
Country Search
Dictionary search
Papua New Guinea Flag
Health Search
Advertisement starts
Advertisement ends
Skip to page content | Text onlyGraphical version of this page
Tiscali Quicklinks. Please visit our Accessibility Page for a list of the Access Keys you can use to find your way around the site, skip directly to the main navigation, to the page content, or to more links within reference.
- Tuesday , November 24, 2009
- Make Tiscali my homepage
Page Footer
Access keys
You will need to use different key combinations in order to use access keys depending on your internet browser, find out which on our accessibility page.
- (0) Navigate to Accessibility page.
- (1) Navigate to Home page.
- (2) Navigate to My email.
- (3) Navigate to My Account.
- (4) Navigate to Site Map page.
- (5) Navigate to Contact us page.
- (6) Navigate to Members channel.
- (7) Navigate to Services channel.
- (8) Navigate to News & Info channel.
- (9) Navigate to Entertainment channel.
- ([) Skip down to the Primary navigation block.
- (]) Skip down to the more links within this section block.
- (=) Bypass all navigation and jump to the content.
- (x) Text only version of this page.
