Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. He began drinking, brawling and talking about his double life. The Macleans had three surviving children: Fergus, born in 1944, Donald, in 1946, and Melinda, in 1951. According to Modin, she responded: "They're quite right – go as soon as you can, don't waste a single moment."[20]. He saw the VENONA material, and recognised that Maclean was Homer, which was confirmed by his KGB control.[28]. This was decoded in April 1951. [citation needed]. Yesterday, in our serialisation of an electrifying biography based on newly released papers, we heard how he fled to Moscow just as he was about to be arrested — leaving behind his supposedly ‘innocent’ wife. The three Maclean children all married Russians, but left Moscow to live in London and the U.S, as they still had the right to British or American passports. The Macleans frequently visited Melinda Maclean's mother and stepfather in Manhattan and at Dunbar's country place in the Berkshires. His father was chosen as chairman of the rump of the 23 independent MPs who backed H. H. Asquith in the Liberal Party in the House of Commons. And while on holiday in Majorca, she gave away a lot of her clothes to the maid of a family she was staying with. But, as I realized later, he was most interested in the very concept of the manuscript. In essence, this was a sinecure. [18], Maclean went to New York on a weekly basis. 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[23] Meanwhile, the American and British governments were concluding that Maclean was indeed a Soviet agent, a process carefully tracked by Kim Philby in Washington. At the age of 13, he was sent to Gresham's School in Norfolk,[2] where he remained from 1926 until 1931, when he was 18. [23] In an official American appraisal concluded: "In the fields of US/UK/Canada planning on atomic energy, US/UK post-war planning and policy in Europe, all information up the date of Maclean's defection undoubtedly reached Soviet hands".[23]. In this way he was able to manoeuvre himself into the hidden places that were of the most interest to the NKVD". It seemed a fitting finale for such a notable spy. He was still very young and only vaguely realized the price he would have to pay for his choice. For example, in the summer of 1950 the North Korean army began its offensive on the south and quickly crushed the troops of Syngman Rhee, pushing them to the sea and seizing 90 percent of the territory of South Korea. Maclean's parents had houses in London (later in Buckinghamshire) as well as in the Scottish Borders, where his father represented Peebles and Southern Midlothian, but the family lived mostly in and around London. As Maclean told Harris, on the evening he met Marling, he saw more to her "I was very taken by her views. In Moscow Maclean's family life was not a happy one. World War I was still a fresh memory, as was the Depression of 1929-33. A1 Mona Lisa 3:10. She put the two boys into the International School in Geneva and finally explained to them what had happened to their father, reporting to her sister that ‘their worst fear seems to be that I might vanish too’. She would be his silent witness for all the difficult years ahead. Young Donald requested permission to join the party, but he was asked to wait. America feared a lengthy and hopeless war with China. View the profiles of people named Fergus Maclean on Facebook. She told him that she knew she would be going to Russia right from the beginning, even before Maclean defected. He said he had learned a great deal from it. But though his love affair with ‘the cause’ never wavered, his love affair with Melinda did. But it was a very natural sign for the man whom we knew simply as Donald Maclean. Nov 30, 2015. fergus maclean son of donald. He feared that she would dump him because he was just a boring official in the British diplomatic service — so ‘to make myself look better and more important, I told her the reason why I led such a life’. [18] At this time Britain was the major power in the Middle East with troops in both the Canal Zone and nearby Palestine and airbases in the Canal Zone from which American atomic bombers could reach the Soviet Union. [36] They had a son, Donald Duart Maclean's only grandson (born in 1970),[36] who resides in the UK. [14], Soviet archives confirm this view. [20] Melinda Maclean returned to the West to be with her mother and sisters; her children soon followed her. Maclean could not have become a Soviet dissident, but neither did he wish to make any sort of career for himself in the U.S.S.R. [19] He was Moscow's main source of information about US/UK/Canada atomic energy policy development. spying, pic: 17th september 1951, mrs melinda maclean the wife of british diplomat donald maclean (donald maclean was a spy for the russians) is pictured at northolt airport with her 3 month old daughter melinda and son fergus on arrival from nice, donald maclean had at this time been missing for 3 months . Kim Philby with partner Melinda Maclean (who later returned to her husband and fellow spy, Donald Maclean) walk in the woods outside Moscow in the 1960's, photographed by his son John, Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 whilst on a skiing holiday - he fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, Melinda Maclean and her sons in their last European home in Geneva 1953 - she was slight with curly, dark hair, 'an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular'. She grew up in Lisbon and attended school there through the eighth grade. ドリーミィベビールームのサックスジャンパースカートとボンネットのセットです。いずれも2度着用。ジャンパースカートはホームクリーニング済みです。特に大きな難は見当たりません。バラ売りは今のところ考えておりません。検品は行なっておりますが素人ですので、見落とし等ある . [6], In his last year, 1934, Maclean became an agent of the Soviet Union's People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated from the Russian as NKVD. In 1934, he became the editor of the Silver Crescent, the Trinity Hall students' magazine. In the foyer of his apartment Maclean had hung a sign with large letters: "Opportunists, Dishonest People, and Anti-Semites leave this apartment!" Maclean seemed totally at one with Soviet ways and believed to his death that the USSR and its ‘new society has a much better prospect than the old of overcoming the major ills and injustices of our civilisation’. There was a White Russian girl, one of her friends, who attacked the Soviet Union and Melinda went for her. ‘Fergie is horrified that [Donald] might have done something wrong at the office and the FO will be very angry when he returns. Many saw a way out in radicalism or fascism. Ian Maclean died September 14th/15th 1943, aged 34, when the aircraft in which he was Navigator crashed over Denmark, he is buried at Esbjerg, and is commemorated on the Penn WW2 War Memorial. Britain still possessed her empire, and the ruling class was not yet contemplating independence for the colonies. Eleanor found Melinda amusing but ‘nervous and highly strung’ and yearning ‘for the luxuries of Western capitalism’. [21], Maclean was considered the key official in the Cairo Embassy, specifically responsible for coordinating US/UK war planning and, under the Ambassador, relations with the Egyptian government. Fergus, born in 1944, Donald, in 1946 and Melinda, in 1951. Maclean had received the position of "adviser" to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while Stalin was still alive. Tips off Maclean and Burgess, who defect. A collection of articles originally published in the Penn Parish Newsletter. Evidently, the nerve-wracking experience of previous years was not without effect. [19], Towards the end of that period Maclean acted as Secretary of the Combined Policy Committee on atomic energy matters. [8] At the Final Board, Maclean was asked by one of the panel interviewing him, whether he had favoured communism while a university student, ostensibly because the panel knew of a trip he had taken to Moscow in his second year at Cambridge. Donald MacLean Jr. Actor Writer Producer IMDbPro Starmeter See rank Donald MacLean Jr. is known for Nurses (2020), Workin' Moms (2017) and The Craft: Legacy (2020). He was promoted and made head of the American Department in the Foreign Office, perhaps its most important assignment for an officer at Maclean's level. She emphasised the strength and goodness of their father’s moral and political beliefs as a committed communist who wanted peaceful co-existence between East and West. He told Harris that Marling not only reacted positively, but "actually promised to help me to the extent that she can – and she is well connected in the American community".[14]. Melinda walked out on her husband, leaving the children with Donald, and moved in with Philby. "Samizdat" was at its peak, and he wanted to read many other manuscripts circulating in Moscow. It WASN'T manslaughter - and he won't serve a day behind bars: The explosive expert view of attorney JONNA SPLIBOR, Atlanta cops REOPEN investigation into adoptive gay father accused of raping 14-year-old boy in 2011 - as he and his partner are jailed for sodomizing and pimping out their two young sons. In the 1960s, the circle of his acquaintances shrank considerably. Klugmann became the official historian of the British Communist Party, while Simon was later a left-wing Labour peer. 0144224. The boys told a child they met on a beach that the photos he had taken could not be forwarded to them ‘as we are going away and we don’t know where we are going’. His wife Eleanor joined him in Moscow, and the Philbys and the Macleans spent a lot of time together, going to the ballet or just having dinner and playing bridge. For Britain he was a spy, a traitor to his country and class, condemned in absentia to 30 years of imprisonment. We encourage you to research and examine these . Donald Maclean – Interview with Rev Oscar Muspratt. Jan 08, 2016. "You can do more good for the communist movement and its standard bearer, the Soviet Union, by serving our common cause in secret, and not by joining the party," the man told Donald. Two years later, a Sunday Times correspondent was in Moscow and about to pack his bags after an unsuccessful attempt to interview the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, when, out of the blue, he was invited to a room in his hotel. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Then Donald's wife left to live with her mother. Melinda, it turned out, had driven to Lausanne, where tickets were waiting and luggage had been left in a station locker.
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