Donald Duart Maclean

Donald Duart Maclean (1913- 6 March 1983) was one of the Cambridge Five, members of MI5 and MI6 who acted as spies for Russia in the Second World War. He was the son of the Scottish Liberal politician Sir Donald Maclean.

London

While in London Maclean was under the operational control of GPU Rezident Anatoli Gorsky. Gorsky used Vladimir Borisovich Barkovsky as the case officer for Maclean, himself an engineer capable of dealing with technical details.

Related Topics:
GPU - Anatoli Gorsky - Vladimir Borisovich Barkovsky

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Maclean reported from London on 16 September 1941 the uranium bomb might be constructed within two years through the efforts of Imperial Chemical Industries with support of the British government. The project to build a uranium bomb was called Tube Alloys, code-named Tube. Maclean sent to Moscow a sixty-page report with the official minutes of the British Cabinet Committee on the Uranium Bomb Project.{{NamedRef|13676|1}}

Related Topics:
Imperial Chemical Industries - Tube Alloys

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