Burgess and Maclean: A New Look by John Fisher (.PDF)
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Burgess and Maclean: A New Look at the Foreign Office Spies (1977) by John Fisher
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Overview: On a summer evening in 1951 two Foreign Office diplomats, not apparently close friends, left Southampton together on a week-end cruise to St. Malo; and failed to return. One of them, Donald Maclean, was Head of the American Department in the Foreign Office; the other, Guy Burgess, a brilliant conversationalist and propagandist, had just been sent home in disgrace from the British Embassy in Washington. Were they on a spree together? Or wanted by the police? Or had they been kidnapped? Few knew—and for three years the government concealed the fact—that they had both been Soviet agents since their undergraduate
days at Cambridge.
This new study reveals for the first time how Maclean, then the golden boy of the Foreign Office, married an American girl, Melinda Marling, on the afternoon of the day the British Embassy left Paris during the fall of France, and how the couple escaped aboard a ship that ran out of food before it reached Britain. It discloses that when Maclean was serving as head of Chancery in Cairo, the Ambassador, Sir Ronald Campbell, received and rejected a warning from the Foreign Office about Maclean’s drinking bouts. It names, for the first time, the mysterious woman psychiatrist who treated Maclean after his ““breakdown” in Cairo, and the reasoning behind the Foreign Office decision to re-employ him. It discusses the part played by Melinda Maclean who in 1953 left Geneva for Moscow with her three children. It describes some of the daringly simple methods of espionage used by Burgess, and tells for the first time of the embarrassing contents of the trunk Burgess left behind.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Espionage & Intelligence
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