Word: macleans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 12--Vladimir Petrov, the former Soviet spy chief in Australia, said today Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean lied when they asserted they never were Soviet agents...
Petrov, who deserted his spy job in April 1954, issued a statement through the Australian Security Service. He challenged the claims of Burgess and Maclean, the turncoat British diplomats who revealed their presence in Moscow yesterday for the first time since their mysterious disappearance...
...Friday, May 25, 1951, two British diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, took the 11:45 p.m. boat from Southampton to St. Malo, France, and disappeared in the direction of the Iron Curtain. Last fall Her Majesty's Stationery Office issued the official story of their defection (TIME, Oct. 3). The report's half-truth was accepted as a polite fiction. Now Novelist Richard Llewellyn (How Green Was My Valley) seems to offer some fiction as the impolite truth...
Gleave is head of the Foreign Office's American desk (Maclean's old job). Like many of his kind, he is crushed beneath the upper millstone of parvenu wealth (which he despises) and the nether millstone of the privileged working class, symbolized by a State housing development which will take from him his mortgaged home. Gleave is in the grip of the constant, twitching fear that he and his family will fall into the anonymous abyss of "the proles." His wife has to do the cooking! Gleave is offered a job in commerce at five times his Foreign...
...Meaning of Treason. It is debatable just how "true" Llewellyn's analysis is. But there is no doubt that Mr. Hamish Gleave points to a serious troubling in Britain's soul. And it again raises the haunting questions which the official report put this way: "First, how Maclean and Burgess remained in the Foreign Service for so long, and second, why they were able to get away...