MacLean, Don‧ald /ˈdɒnəld $ ˈdɑː-/
(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 Russia with another British spy, Guy Burgess, and the names ‘Burgess and Maclean’ are often remembered together. ⇒ Blunt, Anthony, Philby, Kim

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