Donald Duart Maclean (* 25. May 1913; "† 11. March 1983) was a British secret agent of the MI5, which spied during the Second World War as well as four other one, which admits Cambridge Five under the name became, for the Soviet Union.

Maclean was born as a son of the liberal of politician Sir Donald Maclean and visited the Gresham's School in Norfolk. Afterwards it studied modern foreign languages at the Trinity resounds (Cambridge) and became acquainted with thereby the remaining ones Cambridge Five.

1934 he began to work for the Foreign Office. During its activity at the British message in Paris he married 1940 Melinda Marling. After its transfer to the British message in Washington (D.C.) he got entrance to details of the atom bomb program, became even finally a secretary of the angloamerikanischen political committee the nuclear development. When the load of its double life increased, it began to drink violently and became the alcoholic. 1941 identified it the Soviet defector walter Kavitsky.

Shifted to the British message in Cairo 1948, it became at the there message the Konsularchef. Due to a Trunkenheitsepisode it was sent back to London, in order to recover from a "nervlichen collapse". 1950 it was appointed as the director/conductor of the America department of the Foreign Office. Here it had secret entrance to information of the nuclear development program of the security classification "top".

One year later warned it Kim Philby the fact that it under suspicion stand and is rather probably unmasked. Together with Guy Burgess set off Maclean itself in Soviet Union, where they emerged only five years later in Moscow again and contacted on 11 February with a dossier, in which they protested, never than Soviet agents to have worked, western journalists. In the Soviet Union it brought it to the rank Colonel in the KGB with a dwelling in Moscow and Dat outside of the city. 1983 it died in Moscow at a cardiac infarct and was Its urn returned later to England.

See also

Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, John Cairncross, Guy Burgess, George Blake, Melita Norwood, Profumo affair

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