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About Donald Maclean
Donald Duart Maclean 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. In 1938, he was appointed as Third Secretary at the British embassy in Paris. He served in London and Washington, D.C., achieving promotion to First Secretary. He was subsequently posted to Egypt, and then was appointed head of the American Department in the Foreign Office.
Everything about Donald Maclean →- Occupation
- diplomat, spy
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, Soviet Union
- Born
- May 25, 1913
- Died
- March 6, 1983, March 11, 1983