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father and son relations, of Cambridge Five, 55–6, 110
Finland, 102–3, 137, 263
Fisher, Thomas Cathrew, Bishop of Nyasaland, 26
Fitin, Pavel, 144, 145, 150, 156, 160, 176–7
Fleming, Ian, 356–7
Florence, University of, 174
Ford, Ford Madox, 110
Foreign Office: buildings, 66–7, 277–8; handbook on diplomatic etiquette, 278; recruitment and vetting procedures, 63–5, 347, 367; security measures, 69, 86, 347; wartime organisation, 123–4; women staff, 278
Foreign Office departments: American, 1–2, 271–2, 277–8, 341; Eastern, 206; Egyptian, 206; Far Eastern, 226, 264, 272; French, 124; General, 124–5, 127, 138; Information Research, 264; News, 242, 264; Western, 67, 76
Forster, E.M., 38; A Passage to India, 41
France-Soir (newspaper), 324
Franco, Francisco, 73–4, 76, 101
Frankland, Mark, 377–8
Franks, Oliver (later Baron Franks), 280, 295
Frazer, Sir James, 361
Freudianism, 48
Fuchs, Klaus: early life in Germany, 38, 188–9; flees Nazis, 189; interned at beginning of war, 189; at Los Alamos laboratories, 173, 233–4; at Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, 188–9, 234; espionage activities, 186, 188–9; identification, 234, 265; arrest, 192, 264–5; interrogation and confession, 234–6, 263, 287, 308; imprisonment, 235; repercussions of case, 236, 263, 264, 292, 294, 310, 330
Fulton, Missouri, 163
Gada (textile company), 71
Galsworthy, John, 41
Gardner, Meredith, 179–81, 218, 230, 232, 277, 290, 299, 380
Gargoyle Club, Soho, 130–31, 261, 286, 288, 290, 309
Garrick Club, 301
Gary, Romain, 131
Gathorne-Hardy, Edward, 243
Gaulle, Charles de, 124
GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), 73, 304, 339
Geiser, Peter, 352
general elections: (1929), 29; (1931), 29–30; (1945), 161
General Strike (1926), 17–18, 21, 26, 80, 379, 382
Geneva, 348, 349–50, 351
George V, King, 28, 68
George VI, King, 141; coronation, 69
Georgia, 182
Giacometti, Alberto, 114
Gibraltar, 76, 264
Gilliam, Laurence, 311
Gillie, Christopher, 42
Gillie, Robert Calder, 14, 36–7, 42
Girton College, Cambridge, 29, 42
Glading, Percy, 81, 86
Gladstone, Henry, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden, 52
Gladstone, William Ewart, 43, 52, 363
Glasgow, 331, 360
glasnost and perestroika, 371, 375, 380
Global Tourist (front organisation), 176
Gollancz, Sir Victor, 54, 74
Golos, Jacob, 175, 176
Gore-Booth, Sir Paul (later Baron Gore-Booth), 163, 239, 291–4, 296–8, 313
Göring, Hermann, 90
Gorsky, Anatoli: appearance and character, 126; rezident in London, 126; handling of Cambridge spies, 126, 129, 132, 143; rezident in Washington, 153–4, 176–7; renewed handling of DM, 153–4, 158–9, 160, 177, 198; leaves Washington, 198; identification by Western security services, 282; and Burgess and Maclean defections, 306
Gouzenko, Igor, 169–73, 180, 181, 240, 279
Government Code and Cypher School, 73, 133, 136; see also GCHQ
Grafpen, Grigori, 84, 86, 92–3, 125
Graham, Katharine, 148–9
Granta (Cambridge University magazine), 33, 41–2; “The Undergraduate in the Witness Box” interviews, 24–6, 38
Granville, Edgar (later Baron Granville of Eye), 64
Grasshopper, The (Gresham’s School magazine), 21
Gray, Olga, 80–82
Great Falls, Virginia, 329
Greece, 146, 150–51, 161, 199
Greene, Graham, 56, 364, 375
Greenwood, Walter, Love on the Dole, 75
Gresham’s School, 7, 13–23, 27; Debating Society, 21, 23; Honour System, 16–17, 19, 23; school magazine, 21
Grigson, Geoffrey, 335
Grimond, Jo, Baron, 59
Grimond, Laura, Lady (earlier Bonham Carter), 57, 58–9, 61, 261
Grist, Evelyn, 321, 322, 323
Gromushkin, Pavel, 306
Gropius, Walter, 49
Grosvenor Hotel, London, 313
Groves, Leslie, 187
Guernica, bombing of (1937), 77
Guest, David Haden, 29, 31–2, 74
Gullion, Edmund, 205–6
Hadow, Sir Robert, 239, 292
Hague, The, 83, 104
Halifax, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of: deputy Foreign Secretary, 76; Foreign Secretary, 91, 98, 103; Ambassador to United States, 130, 140–41, 144, 148, 158, 183, 184, 203, 282
Hall School, Hampstead, 19
Halpern, Alexander, 228, 229, 304, 313
Ham Spray House, Wiltshire, 258
Hampstead: Hall School, 19; Lawn Road Flats, 49, 70
Hampstead Heath, 69–70
Hanna, George, 376
Hanna, Lucy see Maclean, Lucy
Harlech, William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron, 58, 88
Harris, Kitty: background, character and early life, 85; handling of DM, 84–6, 92–5, 116–17, 125, 148; relationship with DM, 85–8, 110, 116, 275; joins DM in Paris, 88, 92–5; and DM’s relationship with Melinda Marling, 114, 115, 116; returns to Moscow, 117; later life, 117
Harvard University, 199–200
Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Oxfordshire, 188–9, 234, 235, 263
Harwich Port, Massachusetts, 197
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, 9, 121
Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, 43
Heller, Peter, 176
Helouan, Egypt, 224–5
Henderson, H.P., 213
Henderson, Loy W., 182
Henderson, Sir Nicholas, 196, 258, 265–6, 281–2, 289–90, 300, 301, 311
Herald Tribune, 162
Hess, Rudolf, flight to Scotland (1941), 133
Hewitt, Miss (Washington Embassy staff member), 227
Hickerson, John D., 162–3, 178
Hillsdale, New York, 143
Hiroshima, atomic bombing, 161, 171, 185
Hiss, Alger: political career, 156; espionage activities, 155, 156, 217; identification, 176, 217; trials and imprisonment, 217, 236, 263; views on his guilt, 221, 288; repercussions of case, 263
Hitler, Adolf, 27, 38, 67–8, 72–3; Munich Agreement, 89–91, 91–2, 369; Nazi invasion of Soviet Union, 129–30, 131–2, 134–5; see also Nazi–Soviet Pact
Hoare, Geoffrey, 207–8, 212, 246, 250, 270, 323, 347, 348
hockey, 7, 52
Hodgkin, Sir Alan, 15
Hogarth Press, 127
Hollingworth, Clare, 207, 208, 212, 241–2, 347
Holt, Norfolk, 13; see also Gresham’s School
Homer, 146
homosexuality, alleged links to treachery, 330–31
Hooper, Sir Robin, 285, 296
Hoover, J. Edgar, 171, 176, 190, 264, 315, 330, 331
Hopkins, Harry, 158, 227
Horizon (magazine), 208
House Un-American Activities Committee, 177, 203, 216, 217, 221
Howson, George W. S., 14
Hughes, Richard, 356–8
Humanité, L’ (newspaper), 101
Hungarian Uprising (1956), 365, 366, 369
hunger marches (1930s), 32–3
Hutchinson, Jeremy (later Baron Hutchinson of Lullington), 58, 59
Hutchinson (publishing company), 369
Huxley, Aldous, 41
Hyde Park Agreement (1944), 185–6
IMEMO see Institute of World Economics and International Relations
Imperial Defence Conference (1937), 73, 77
India, 34, 263, 331; Communists, 80–81; independence, 206, 211, 277
industrialisation, 33
Institute of World Economic
s and International Relations (IMEMO), 368–9, 371, 375, 378
International Brigades (Spanish Civil War), 74
International Workers Relief Organisation, 47
Inverchapel, Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron, 157, 158, 194–5, 200, 201
Invergordon mutiny (1931), 80
Ioffe, Olga, 369
Iran, 161, 162
Israel, 207, 214; Arab–Israeli War, 214–15
Istanbul: British Consulate, 166–7, 168–9; Pera Palace Hotel, 167
Italian Library of Information, New York, 175
Izvestia (newspaper), 378, 379
Jackson, Sir Geoffrey, 318
Jebb, Sir Gladwyn (later 1st Baron Gladwyn), 260, 332
Jerusalem, 207, 214
Jordan, Philip, 195, 208–9, 325
Joyce, James, 41, 110
Joyce, William (“Lord Haw-Haw”), 185
Jung, Carl, 256, 260
Katyń massacre (1940), 132
Katz, Joseph, 177
Kee, Janetta, 258, 266, 287
Kee, Robert, 266, 309
Kell, Sir Vernon, 88
Kennedy, John F., 205
Kennedy, Joseph, 124
Kensington: Holland Road, 81; Soviet Embassy, 305
Kensington Gardens, 84
Keynes, John Maynard (later 1st Baron Keynes), 27, 28, 29, 38, 62
Khrushchev, Nikita, 350, 356–7, 377; visits Britain, 356, 359; denunciation of Stalin, 364
Kiel University, 188
Kilburn, Acol Road, 47
Kim Il Sung, 263
King, John H., 105–6, 107
King, Mackenzie, 170, 171
King’s College, London, 172
Kipling, Rudyard, Kim, 34
Kislitsyn, Filip, 306, 337, 353
Klugmann, James: family background, 19; appearance and character, 20, 22, 40; schooldays, 19–20, 21, 22; friendship with DM, 19–20, 22; at Cambridge, 28–9, 31, 32, 38, 40; in Paris, 53, 96
Klugmann, Kitty see Cornforth, Kitty
Klugmann, Samuel, 19
Knight, Maxwell, 80–81
Knightley, Phillip, 375
Koestler, Arthur, 101, 131, 261; Darkness at Noon, 218; Spanish Testament, 74
Kohlmann, Litzi, 47
Korean War, 263, 272, 280–82, 310, 329, 375
Korovin, Nikolai, 303
Krivitsky, Tonia, 108
Krivitsky, Walter: background, character and early life, 83, 103–4; and assassination of Ignace Reiss, 104, 144; defection and debriefings, 83–4, 91, 103–8, 129; incomplete identifications of Cambridge spies, 83–4, 107, 160, 237–9, 283, 291, 292, 293, 296; death, 108, 129, 312
Krötenschield, Boris, 168, 172
Krotov, Boris, 199
Kruglov, Sergei, 156
Kubrick, Stanley, Doctor Strangelove, 187n
Kursk, Battle of (1943), 133
Kuybyshev (Samara), 360–63
La Fayette, Madame de, 220
Ladd, D. Milton “Mickey,” 219, 237
Lambert, Isabel, 307, 308–9
Lambert, Kit, 301, 308
Lamphere, Robert, 218–19, 227, 232, 233–4, 276, 282, 292, 304, 312, 329–30, 331–2
Lausanne, 352
Lawford, Valentine, 63, 67, 89, 102, 122, 204
Lawrence, D.H., Sons and Lovers, 41
Layton, Walter (later 1st Baron Layton), 14
le Carré, John, 219–20, 364; The Honourable Schoolboy, 356n; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 375–6
League against Imperialism, 81
League of Nations, 23, 66, 67–8
League of Nations Union, 15, 99
Leahy, William D., 153
Leconfield House (MI5 headquarters), 297
Left Book Club, 54, 74, 95
Leguizamon, Carlos, 319
Lehmann, John, 127
Lehmann, Rosamond, 261
Leicester Square, Empire Cinema, 84
Leigh Fermor, Patrick, 349
Lend-Lease programme, 150, 179
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 43, 50, 104
Lessing, Doris, 369
Levine, Isaac Don, 104, 105
Liddell, Guy, 133, 159–60, 206–7, 228–9, 310–311, 339
Linnik, Dmitri, 376
Linnik, Melinda, 376
Lisbon, 131
Litvinov, Maxim, 68, 97
Lloyd George, David (later 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), 11, 68
local elections, (1937), 74
Long Island, New York, 153, 197
Longford, Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of, 289–90
Longworth, Alice, 149
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 117, 180, 191, 233–4
Louis XIV, King of France, 220
Love on the Dole (film; 1941), 74
McAlmon, Robert, 109–110
MacArthur, Douglas, 329
McCarthy, Joseph, 236, 292, 330n
McCarthyism, 203, 216, 236, 263, 280, 292, 330n
MacDonald, Ramsay, 19, 30, 32
McEachran, Frank, 20–21
MacGibbon and Kee (publishing company), 266
Mackenzie, Sir Robert, 227, 238, 265, 290–94, 309, 329
MacKillop, Douglas, 351
Maclean, Agnes (née Macmellin; DM’s grandmother), 8, 11
Maclean, Alan (DM’s brother): birth and childhood, 11, 13; military service and diplomatic career, 137, 260, 295–6, 332, 343; and DM’s defection, 332–3; collects DM’s belongings, 342–3; visits Melinda Maclean in Geneva, 350; publishing career and later life, 343, 364, 365, 369, 372, 382; visits DM in Moscow, 377; interment of DM’s ashes, 378–9; views on DM, 61, 260, 271; views on Melinda Maclean, 111
Maclean, Andrew (DM’s brother), 11, 12, 15, 18, 300
Maclean, Dmitri (DM’s grandson), 376
Maclean, Sir Donald (DM’s father): family background, 8, 9; early life and education, 9, 361; character and beliefs, 8–9, 12, 22, 23, 46, 289; political career and civic activities, 9–10, 11, 18, 23, 30, 107, 140; marriage, family life and children’s upbringing, 8, 10–11, 12–13, 14, 23; DM’s relations with, 12–13, 22, 31, 49, 56, 110, 289, 380; death and burial, 8–9, 36–7, 380
Maclean, Donald: family background, 8; birth and early childhood, 8–9, 11–13; schooldays, 7, 13–23; friendship with James Klugmann, 19–20; at Cambridge, 24–43, 61, 270; politicisation, 31–4, 37–9, 42–3; first meets Kim Philby and Guy Burgess, 34–5; death of father, 36–7; contributions to university publications, 39–42; graduation, 43; planned move to Russia, 43–4, 45; holiday in France with Tony Blake and Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce (1934), 44–5, 46, 316; application to join Foreign Office, 45–6, 51–2, 61; recruitment as Soviet agent by Arnold Deutsch, 47, 49, 51, 53–7; preparation for Diplomatic Service exams, 57, 223, 317; life in London, 57–60, 69, 78, 317; first meets Philip Toynbee, 59–60, 270; appears to break with Communist past, 61–2, 64; early activities as Soviet agent, 62–3, 66; Foreign Office exams and interview, 63–5; Third Secretary in League of Nations and Western Department, 66–70, 73, 76–9; material passed to Soviets, 69–70, 71–3, 76–7, 86; handled by Teodor Maly, 70–72, 82; recall of Deutsch and Maly to Moscow, 79–80, 82–3; handled by Kitty Harris, 84–6, 92–5, 116–17, 125, 148; relationship with Kitty, 85–8, 110, 116, 275; fishing holiday in Scotland (1938), 88; posting to Paris Embassy, 88, 89, 91–5, 109; material passed to Soviets, 92, 93, 98, 103, 117–18; joined by Kitty, 88, 92–5; life in Paris, 93–6, 109–110, 113–14; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 100, 102, 112; Walter Krivitsky’s partial identification, 83–4, 91, 103–8, 238–9; first meets Melinda Marling, 109, 110; their courtship, 110, 112–14, 118; informs Melinda of his espionage, 115–16; Kitty returns to Moscow, 117–18; marriage and honeymoon, 118–21; couple returns to Britain, 121, 122; early married life, 122–3, 127, 131, 138; returns to work at Foreign Office, 123–4; assigned to General Department, 124–5, 127, 138–9; handled by Anatoli Gorsky, 126, 129; life in London during Blitz, 127–8, 130–31, 197; stillbirth of first child, 128; material passed to Soviets, 129–30, 132–4, 187; reaction to Nazi invas
ion of Soviet Union, 132; Soviet suspicions of, 132–4, 154; posting to Washington Embassy, 139, 140–54; birth of son Fergus, 143; handled by Vladmir Pravdin, 144–5; material passed to Soviets, 143, 145–7, 149–51, 153–4, 155, 156, 158–9, 181–4; social and family life in Washington, 148–9, 151–3, 162, 164–5, 192, 196–8; handled by Gorsky again, 153–4, 158–9, 177, 198; refuses annual pension from Soviets, 160; growing mental tensions, 161–5, 169, 192–4, 196–8; learns of defection of Igor Gouzenko, 169, 172, 174; appointed acting head of Chancery in Washington Embassy, 177–8; trip to Bermuda (1946), 178; and Turkish Straits crisis, 181–4; and atomic energy development, 187–92; Washington posting extended, 192–5; birth of son Donald, 196; Gorsky leaves Washington, 198; handled by Boris Krotov, 198–9; and Marshall Plan and formation of NATO, 200–202; and Berlin Blockade, 202; offered transfer and promotion to Counsellor, 203; leaves Washington, 203–4, 205–6; posting to Cairo Embassy, 203, 205–210, 213–14; social and family life in Cairo, 207–9, 210–213, 220–23; material passed to Soviets, 213–16; identification by Americans in “Venona” decrypts, 218–20, 227–30; continued mental decline, 220–23, 231, 235–6, 237, 239; growing marital difficulties, 220–21, 224, 231, 244; drunken incident at boat party, 223–7, 229–30, 239; month’s leave in Italy, 227, 231; returns to Cairo, 231–2; requests exfiltration to Moscow, 239–41, 243; drunken binge with Philip Toynbee, 241–8, 258–9, 270, 272; returns to England on leave of absence, 248–52; treatment for breakdown, 252–7, 259–60, 261, 266, 270, 271, 297; responses to his breakdown and departure from Cairo, 248–50, 257–9, 272, 285; life in England without Melinda, 261–3, 265–7; reconciliation with Melinda, 267–70; resumes work as head of FO American Department, 1–2, 271–3, 273–4, 275, 277–9, 280–82, 299; cut off by Moscow Centre but continues to gather confidential material, 280–81; family life in Kent, 273, 284, 286, 299; more drunken indiscretions, 285–90; under security services’ surveillance, 297–9, 301, 304–5, 314, 319; last days in England, 300–309, 311, 313–16; decision to defect, 307–8, 312, 313, 315; plans for defection, 313–14; day of disappearance, 1–6, 317–22, 337–8; reaches France, 5, 322, 337–8; travels to Prague via Bern, 338–9; arrives in Moscow, 359; writes to wife and mother, 344–7; life in Soviet Union, 356, 359–76; joined by wife and children, 352–3, 362; reappears in Moscow and issues public statement, 357–9, 367–8; joins Communist Party, 364–5; works for Institute of World Economics and International Relations, 368–9, 371, 375; publishes book on British foreign policy, 89, 263, 362, 368, 370–71; arrival of Philby in Moscow, 373–5; death of Burgess, 372–3; end of marriage, 374–5; declining health and final years, 376–8, 382; final interview, 377–8, 382; death, 378; funeral and interment of ashes, 378–9, 380