Word: macleans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China would never have risked troops in Korea without advance information that its Manchurian bases would be immune from U.S. attack. Likely "links in the chain to our enemy in Korea": British Spies Guy Burgess, then a member of Britain's diplomatic staff in Washington, and Donald Maclean, head of the American Department in Britain's Foreign Office (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...predictable happened in Moscow last week: The Russian Foreign Office decided that the moment had come to produce missing British Diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Called to the television room of the National Hotel, the correspondents of Reuters news agency and the London Sunday Times (no other foreign press invited) were exposed to the presence of Burgess, 44, and Maclean, 42, just long enough (five minutes) to identify them. The ex-diplomats were dressed in dark blue suits and white shirts, looked relaxed, but showed more grey hair than when last seen in the West five years...
...prepared statement (which read as if written by someone else), Burgess and Maclean admitted that they had joined the Communist Party while students at Cambridge. They denied that they had been Soviet agents while working in the British Foreign Office: they had switched their allegiance to the Soviet Union because they had disagreed with the direction of British policy. Said the statement: "We had every possibility to know the plans of a small but powerful group of men who opposed the achievement of ... mutual understanding [with the Soviet Union], and for this reason we had every ground to fear these...
More & More Alone. Part way through the statement, the "we" was dropped, and the career of each man was discussed in the third person. The tall, truculent, but flabby Maclean was pictured as a man caught in the British Foreign Office "machine which, with the exception of the war period, was pursuing a policy unacceptable not only to Maclean, but also to many others . . . However, after the war he found himself more and more alone. It was becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone to think of something else than the Communist menace, to understand the senselessness and danger of American...
Followed by counterespionage agents, his telephone tapped while he was heading the American desk at the Foreign Office, Maclean was allegedly driven to desperation, while the hell-raising Burgess was depicted as a man racked with "the greatest anxiety . . . caused by the fact that at first no modus vivendi was reached be tween the East and West, and later on no attempts were made to reach...