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Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Records relating to Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (known KGB spies), and subsequent investigations and security arrangements
| Reference: | FCO 158 |
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| Title: | Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Records relating to Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (known KGB spies), and subsequent investigations and security arrangements |
| Description: |
This series consists of a collection of papers which focus on Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, KGB spies who evaded capture and escaped to USSR. The papers include investigations into their disappearance, including assessments of their personalities; Melissa Maclean's subsequent flight to Moscow, gives some detail of their activities in Moscow; and the measures the Foreign Office put in place as part of a wider government process of tightening personnel security. |
| Date: | 1935-1984 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968- Foreign Office, 1782-1968 |
| Physical description: | 254 files and papers |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 2015 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accumulation dates: | 1935 to 1984 |
| Selection and destruction information: | Records selected by the FCO under TNA supervision - Para 129 Annex A of OSP13 describes records requiring permanent preservation as: Records on internal security matters will only be preserved where they demonstrate a considerable effect on UK diplomatic relations. Where FCO represented the UK position on security at international conferences or to international organisations. |
| Accruals: | No accruals are expected after receipt of this transfer. |
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