Word: maclean
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...leaked information to the Soviets. Though he was allowed to continue advising the Queen until his retirement, he privately confessed to British authorities in 1964 that he was the "fourth man" along with three notorious fellow Cambridge traitors: Guy Burgess, who died in Moscow in 1963; Donald Maclean, who died in Moscow last month; and H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, still living in the Soviet Union...
DIED. Donald Maclean, 69, British diplomat who with his fellow Cambridge graduate Guy Burgess was at the center of Britain's most infamous spy scandal in the past half-century; of cancer; in Moscow. Recruited at college in the 1930s with his lover Burgess by Anthony Blunt, then a don, Maclean was a mole in the British embassy in Washington, where he had access to highly classified Allied documents, including U.S. atomic secrets. Tipped by another Soviet mole that they were suspected of spying, Maclean and Burgess escaped from England to the U.S.S.R. in 1951. "My God, Maclean knew...
...only $2.5 million; she reckons it to be $25 million. Just her basic living expenses, she claims, will amount to some $246,000 a year. Some prominent items: $25,000 for vacations, $12,000 for entertainment, $18,000 for her clothes, another $18,000 to dress Twins Maclean and Zachary, 5, and $3,000 to buy the birthday presents "Mack" and "Zack" are obliged to give their Palm Beach playmates. Peter Pulitzer, athletic and severely good-looking, hopes to convince Circuit Court Judge Carl Harper that Roxanne is a wastrel unfit to raise the boys...
...that it was too soon to tell whether, or to what extent, Western intelligence had been compromised. It was clear, however, that Washington's patience was wearing thin. British spy scandals have been a Western burden since the days of Kim Philby and his fellow double agents, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, all Cambridge graduates and members of the old-boy network, who were unmasked as Soviet agents. U.S. spymasters say that they have tried ever since to persuade their British counterparts to tighten security, but with only limited success. "The British are very good at gathering and analyzing...
...River of Death, MacLean...