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MacLean, Donald
     
MacLean, Donald
(1913-83) a British man who had an important job in the Foreign Office, but was at the same time secretly working as a spy for the former Soviet Union. In 1951 he escaped to the Soviet Union with another British spy, Guy Burgess, and the names 'Burgess and Maclean' are often remembered together.
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