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British Intelligence Personnel Who Defected to the Soviet Union: Kim Philby, Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess

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Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, George Blake. Excerpt: Donald Maclean Donald Duart Maclean (pronounced /m kle n/; 25 May 1913 Marylebone, London 6 March 1983 Moscow) was a British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five who were members of MI5, MI6 or the diplomatic service who acted as spies for the Soviet Union in the Second World War and beyond. He was recruited as a straight penetration agent while an undergraduate at Cambridge by the Soviet intelligence service. His actions are widely thought to have contributed to the 1948 Soviet blockade of Berlin and the onset of the Korean War . As a reward for his espionage activities, Maclean was brevetted a colonel in the Soviet KGB . Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was the son of the Liberal politician Sir Donald Maclean, who was Leader of the parliamentary opposition in the years following the First World War . Childhood and school Born in London, Donald Duart Maclean was the son of Sir Donald Maclean and Gwendoline Devitt. His father was Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons and Leader of the Opposition from 1918 to 1920. 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. Like his father, Maclean was more English than Scottish . He grew up in a very political household, in which world affairs were constantly discussed. Maclean's education began as a boarder at St Ronan's School, a preparatory school in Hawkhurst . At the age of 13, he was sent to Gresham's School in Norfolk, where he remained from 1926 until 1931, when he was 18. At Gresham's, some of his contemporaries were Lord Simon of Glaisdale...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with British Intelligence Personnel Who Defected to the Soviet Union: Kim Philby, Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess. To get started finding British Intelligence Personnel Who Defected to the Soviet Union: Kim Philby, Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
48
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
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Release
2010
ISBN
1155734769

British Intelligence Personnel Who Defected to the Soviet Union: Kim Philby, Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess

Books LLC
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Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, George Blake. Excerpt: Donald Maclean Donald Duart Maclean (pronounced /m kle n/; 25 May 1913 Marylebone, London 6 March 1983 Moscow) was a British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five who were members of MI5, MI6 or the diplomatic service who acted as spies for the Soviet Union in the Second World War and beyond. He was recruited as a straight penetration agent while an undergraduate at Cambridge by the Soviet intelligence service. His actions are widely thought to have contributed to the 1948 Soviet blockade of Berlin and the onset of the Korean War . As a reward for his espionage activities, Maclean was brevetted a colonel in the Soviet KGB . Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was the son of the Liberal politician Sir Donald Maclean, who was Leader of the parliamentary opposition in the years following the First World War . Childhood and school Born in London, Donald Duart Maclean was the son of Sir Donald Maclean and Gwendoline Devitt. His father was Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons and Leader of the Opposition from 1918 to 1920. 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. Like his father, Maclean was more English than Scottish . He grew up in a very political household, in which world affairs were constantly discussed. Maclean's education began as a boarder at St Ronan's School, a preparatory school in Hawkhurst . At the age of 13, he was sent to Gresham's School in Norfolk, where he remained from 1926 until 1931, when he was 18. At Gresham's, some of his contemporaries were Lord Simon of Glaisdale...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with British Intelligence Personnel Who Defected to the Soviet Union: Kim Philby, Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess. To get started finding British Intelligence Personnel Who Defected to the Soviet Union: Kim Philby, Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
48
Format
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Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155734769

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