![]() ![]() (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he was confident that Kyiv would receive supplies of F-16 fighter jets from the West to. Donald’s older brother Alan was delayed leaving London and by the time he arrived at Penn, it was getting dark, and the service was conducted by torchlight. Louise Delmotte/Pool via REUTERS Reuters. Oscar Muspratt was conducted in comparative secrecy, to avoid publicity, with a few family members present. His ashes were brought back to England by his son Fergus, and buried by his parents’ grave. He was reported to have died there on 6 March 1983. In Moscow, he worked as a specialist on British policy and relations between the Soviet Union and NATO. In much later declassified reports, British Intelligence denied to the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) any knowledge of his activities or whereabouts. The Soviets ordered Maclean to defect in 1951. Here he became Moscow’s main source of information about US thermonuclear policy, greatly helping the Soviets to evaluate the relative strength of their own nuclear arsenal.īy the time he was appointed head of the American Department in the Foreign Office, he was widely suspected of being a spy. from 1944 to 1948, achieving promotion to First Secretary. Immediate Family: Daughter of Donald Maclean of Ardgour and M McLean. Place of Burial: Church of Ireland, St Johnstown, Ireland. In 1938, he was made Third Secretary at the Paris embassy, where he kept the Soviets informed about Anglo-German diplomacy. Decem(60-61) Trintaugh House, County Donegal, Ireland. According to author Henry Bell, who has just published a new. To the British intelligence services during the First World War, on the other hand, he was regarded as the most dangerous figure in Britain. However, he gained entry to the Civil Service by claiming to have foresworn Marxism. To Lenin and to Trotsky, John Maclean was a foremost leader of the revolutionary movement in Britain. Sir Donald was a Liberal politician, who served as leader of the Opposition between 19 and in Ramsay MacDonald’s National Government as President of the Board of Education from 1931 until his death in June 1932Īs an undergraduate, the young Donald Duart Maclean openly proclaimed his left-wing views, and was recruited into the Soviet intelligence service, then known as the NKVD. He was the third son of Sir Donald Charles Hugh Maclean and Lady Gwendolen Maclean, who owned Elm Cottage in Beacon Hill as a weekend retreat from their London apartment. Donald Maclean, the son of the Liberal cabinet minister, Donald Maclean, was born in London on 25th May, 1913. ![]() Holy Trinity, Penn, Old Churchyard, Plot F.16.ĭonald Duart Maclean ( – 6 March 1983) was a British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five spy ring, along with Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, which conveyed government secrets to the Soviet Union. ![]()
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