![]() ![]() In Moscow, he worked as a specialist on British policy and on relations between the Soviet Union and NATO. The Soviets helped Maclean to defect to Moscow in 1951. He was subsequently posted to Egypt, and then was appointed head of the American Department in the Foreign Office. He then served in London, and was posted to Washington, D.C., from 1944 to 1948, achieving promotion to First Secretary. He entered the United Kingdom's civil service and, in 1938, was made Third Secretary at the Paris embassy. ![]() Donald Duart Maclean ( / m ə ˈ k l eɪ n/ – 6 March 1983) was a British diplomat who conveyed government secrets to the Soviet Union.Īs an undergraduate Maclean openly proclaimed his left-wing views, and was surreptitiously recruited into the Soviet intelligence service, then known as the NKVD. ![]()
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