Catalogue description Donald Duart MACLEAN, aliases Richard CURZON, Mark FRAZER, Percy MACLEAN, S MADZOEVSKY:...
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Reference: | KV 2/4142 |
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Donald Duart MACLEAN, aliases Richard CURZON, Mark FRAZER, Percy MACLEAN, S MADZOEVSKY: British. Melinda Goodlett MACLEAN, aliases Melinda MARLING, Melinda PHILBY, Natasha FRAZER: American, British. A high flying employee of the Foreign Office, in 1951 Donald MACLEAN was identified as the source of a leakage from the Washington Embassy some years earlier. While under investigation he fled to the USSR with Guy BURGESS. He was assessed as having been a Soviet agent since the 1930s |
Note: | Serial 196f: draft telegram revealing first suspicions of PHILBY. Serial 200a: summary of case to date. Serial 216z: photocopies of two telegrams sent from Paris, ostensibly by MACLEAN. With photograph |
Date: | 1951 Jun 06 - 1951 Jun 12 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | PF 604558 VOL 3 |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
Access conditions: | Open on Transfer |
Record opening date: | 23 October 2015 |
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