Maclean, Donald Duart

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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.

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