![]() ![]() – Kim Philby, who ran the counter-intelligence section of MI6 (i.e. ![]() Maclean’s father was education minister in Ramsay MacDonald’s government. Happily for Maclean, he defected before he would have been captured and lived out the rest of his life in Moscow. There’s more in Wikipedia if you can stomach it. Stalin, in other words, knew what FDR and Churchill wanted before they sat down together (in at least one case, Modin says that Molotov got his counterparts’ briefing materials before they did). In addition to atomic secrets he passed on lots of information on US and British goals for the various conferences of the big three. Maclean was first secretary of the British embassy in the US. – Donald Maclean, who passed (among other things) atomic secrets to the Soviets. He was the controller for ring of Soviet spies in England known as "the Cambridge Five." The five include: ![]()
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