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by Roland Philipps


  Character & characteristics: aggression, 35, 149, 161–2, 266, 287; alter egos, 24–5, 35, 43, 109, 301; anti-Americanism, 141, 148, 152, 188, 215, 358, 370; appearance, 1, 19, 22–3, 35, 51, 57, 113, 142, 266, 297; attention to detail, 37, 150, 158; attitude to war and peace, 33, 365; charm, 34, 52, 57, 208, 258, 279, 366; childhood achievements, 7, 21–2, 52; code-names and pseudonyms, 54, 78, 146, 297, 361, 363; conscientiousness, 37, 79, 139, 147–8, 237; diffidence, 34, 42, 57–8, 77; dress, 1, 38, 57, 66, 317, 377; drinking and alcoholism, 2, 12, 17, 22, 34–5, 95, 113–14, 138, 152, 161–2, 197–8, 205, 220–21, 237, 243, 255–6, 266, 284–6, 289, 374; effeminacy, 23, 113; evasiveness, 24–5; fatherhood, 145, 284, 301, 311; handwriting, 204, 266, 344; idealism, 34–5, 358; immaturity, 55, 124, 128, 138–9, 223; industriousness, 37, 42, 77, 79, 92; introversion, 34, 78; language skills, 30, 57, 360; memory, 86, 145; morality, 12–13, 19, 22, 23, 34, 37, 188, 212; need for praise and reassurance, 55–6, 110, 125, 128, 216, 262–3; outsider, 26, 42–3; patriotism, 53, 132, 188, 215, 380; preference for bohemian lifestyle, 109, 212, 308; relations with parents, 12–13, 22, 31, 49, 56; relations with women, 45–6, 55, 57–9, 87, 113; secrecy, 14, 17, 125; sexuality, 17, 35, 44, 60, 196–7, 270–71; smoking, 77, 376; solitariness, 42–3; sporting prowess, 7, 25, 37, 42, 52, 141; support for underdog, 37–8, 212–13, 223, 369; temper, 193–4

  Maclean, Donald (“Beany”; DM’s son): birth, 196; childhood, 197, 210, 243, 267, 269, 284, 299, 347; and father’s defection, 1, 4, 317; family moves to Geneva, 348, 349–50, 351; holiday in Majorca, 350–51; family joins DM in Soviet Union, 351–3, 362; life in Soviet Union, 363, 365, 372; marriage and later life, 376

  Maclean, Sir Ewen (DM’s uncle), 9

  Maclean, Fergus (DM’s son): birth, 143; childhood, 151, 197, 210, 267, 269, 284, 299, 347; and father’s defection, 1, 4, 317, 341; family moves to Geneva, 348, 349–50, 351; holiday in Majorca, 350–51; family joins DM in Soviet Union, 351–3, 362; life in Soviet Union, 363, 372; marriage and later life, 376, 377; interment of DM’s ashes, 378–9

  Maclean, Sir Fitzroy, 1st Baronet, 51, 87–8

  Maclean, Sir Fitzroy, 26th Clan Chief, 8

  Maclean, Gwendolen, Lady (née Devitt; DM’s mother): family background, 10, 123; appearance and character, 10–11, 123; marriage and family life, 10–11, 14; and DM’s student life, 33, 42–3, 44; and DM’s politics and post-university career options, 44, 45–6, 51, 61; widowhood, 45–6, 123; visits DM in Paris, 95; and DM’s marriage, 122–3, 268, 269; visits DM and family in Washington and Cairo, 164, 220; DM visits on return to England, 251; and DM’s treatment for breakdown, 255; phone tapped by security services, 297, 348–9; during DM’s last days in England, 300, 301, 321; learns of DM’s disappearance, 322–3; in months following DM’s disappearance, 341, 342; interviewed by Jim Skardon, 332–3, 340, 342; receives telegram from Paris, 333–4; reaction to DM’s espionage and defection, 10–11, 56, 346–7, 348–9; later life and death, 372

  Maclean, Ian (DM’s brother), 11, 12, 14, 18; death, 137

  Maclean, John (DM’s grandfather), 9

  Maclean, Lucy (née Hanna; DM’s daughter-in-law), 376

  Maclean, Melinda (née Marling; DM’s wife): background and early life, 110–111, 298; appearance and character, 109, 110, 111–12, 207–8, 298; first meets DM in Paris, 109; their courtship, 110, 112–14, 118; knowledge of DM’s espionage, 115–16, 138, 154; marriage and honeymoon, 118–21; first pregnancy, 119, 127, 128; couple returns to Britain, 121, 122; early married life, 122–3, 127, 131, 138; travels to New York to escape Blitz, 128; stillbirth of first child, 128; returns to London, 131, 138; second pregnancy, 139, 142; in United States during DM’s Washington posting, 139, 141–4, 151–3, 154, 164–5, 192, 196–8, 298, 310–311; birth of son Fergus, 143; trip to Bermuda with DM, 178; and DM’s declining mental state, 164–5, 196–7, 220–21, 222, 237; birth of son Donald, 196; family leaves Washington, 204; in Cairo during DM’s embassy posting, 207–9, 210–213, 216, 220–21, 222, 224, 231; growing marital difficulties, 220–21, 223, 231, 244; and DM’s drunken incident at boat party, 224, 226; family’s month’s leave in Italy, 227, 231; and DM’s requests for exfiltration to Moscow, 240; and DM’s drunken binge with Philip Toynbee, 241, 243, 244, 245–9, 258–9; and DM’s return to England and treatment for breakdown, 250, 252–3, 254, 255; leaves Egypt for Spain, 259, 267; reconciliation with DM in England, 267–70; family life in Kent, 273, 284, 286, 289, 299; during DM’s last days in England, 300, 301–2, 307, 308, 311–12; and DM’s decision to defect, 312; on day of DM’s disappearance, 1, 4–5, 317, 319–22; months following disappearance, 322–3, 340–42, 344–50; interviewed by Jim Skardon, 311, 320, 332–3, 340; receives telegram from Paris, 333–4; birth of daughter Melinda, 315–16, 318, 341–2; receives letter from DM, 344–6; trip to South of France, 344, 346; family moves to Geneva, 348, 349–50, 351; holiday in Majorca, 350–51; joins DM in Soviet Union, 351–5, 362; life in Soviet Union, 362–3, 364–5, 372, 373–4; relationship with Kim Philby and end of marriage, 374–5; returns to United States, 376–7; later life and death, 377

  Maclean, Melinda (“Mimsie”; DM’s daughter), 318, 341–2, 345, 351–2, 363, 365, 372, 376

  Maclean, Nancy (DM’s sister) see Oetking, Nancy

  Maclean, Olga (DM’s daughter-in-law), 376

  Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton), 343, 365, 367

  Macmillan (publishing company), 343, 365, 369

  MacNeice, Louis, 23n; Autumn Journal, 75, 90, 102

  McNeil, Hector, 208, 264

  Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 257

  Maisky, Ivan, 97, 98, 103, 131–2, 133

  Majorca, 350–51

  Makins, Sir Roger (later 1st Baron Sherfield): appearance and character, 187; Economic Minister at Washington Embassy, 187–8, 191, 192, 381; as possible intelligence leak, 239, 292, 381; and Maclean’s posting to FO American Department, 272, 381; and security services’ investigations of Washington Embassy leaks, 309, 315–16; and Burgess and Maclean defections, 3, 5, 319, 323, 330, 381; later career, 203, 381

  Mallet, Sir Victor, 105, 107, 118

  Malraux, André, Days of Contempt, 74

  Maly, Lydia, 71

  Maly, Teodor: background, appearance and character, 70–71; early life, 71; “illegal” in London, 70, 71, 107; handling of DM, 71–2, 81, 82, 107; and Woolwich Arsenal spy ring, 81, 84; MI5 identification of, 80, 81, 84; recalled to Moscow, 79–80, 81, 125–6, 262; death, 80, 125, 312

  Manhattan Project (US atomic weapons development), 117, 180, 186–7, 233–4

  Mao Tse-tung, 232

  Markievicz, Constance, 292

  Marling, Catherine, 110, 344, 353

  Marling, Eleanor, 193

  Marling, Francis, 110–111, 113

  Marling, Harriet (later Sheers): childhood, 110; in Paris with sister Melinda, 111, 112; rejects advances of Peter Solly-Flood, 193; visits Macleans in Washington and Egypt, 197, 224, 231, 243, 319; and DM’s drunken binge and breakdown, 245, 247, 250, 253, 257, 259; marriage, 301–2; visits Macleans in England, 301–3; support for Melinda after DM’s disappearance, 341, 350

  Marling, Melinda (DM’s mother-in-law) see Dunbar, Melinda

  Marling, Melinda Goodlett (DM’s wife) see Maclean, Melinda

  Marshall, George C., 199–201

  Marshall Plan, 200–201

  Martin, Arthur, 283, 296, 309

  Marylebone: Bentinck Street, 130, 197; Presbyterian Church, 14, 42; Rossmore Court, 131

  Masaryk, Jan, death, 201

  Mascot Hotel, London, 267

  Mason, Sir Frederick, 317

  Matthews, H. Freeman “Doc,” 153, 154

  Maudsley Hospital, 255

  May, Alan Nunn, 171–4, 185, 186, 190, 191, 234, 236, 263, 287, 308, 330

  Mayall, Sir Lees, 58, 223–6, 229–30, 246, 260, 267, 270, 273, 301

  Mayall, Mary, Lady (née Ormsby-Gore; earlier Campbell), 58, 61, 88, 95, 223, 224

  Mecklenburgh Square, London, 127

  Medved
ev, Roy, 369

  Menzies, Sir Stewart, 168

  Methodism, 9

  Middleton, Sir George: at Washington Embassy, 141, 152–3, 162, 164; head of Foreign Office personnel, 222, 248–9, 285; and DM’s treatment for breakdown, 252–3, 256, 257, 258, 260, 268; and DM’s posting to American Department, 271–2

  Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, 121

  Miljković, Dušan, 335

  Millar, Frederick Hoyer (later 1st Baron Inchyra), 88, 95

  Miller, Bernard, 320

  Minley Manor, Surrey (War Office training centre), 129

  Modin, Yuri, 214, 216, 240, 264, 272–3, 279, 303, 305, 307, 313–14, 352–3

  Modrzhinskaya, Elena, 133–4, 138, 160

  Molotov, Vyacheslav, 97, 98, 150, 158, 182, 183, 200, 357

  Montreux, 351

  Moonglow Club, Soho, 270–71

  Moore, Herbert, 255–6, 257

  Morgenthau Plan, 150

  Morning Star (newspaper), 367

  Morrison, Herbert (later Baron Morrison of Lambeth), 2, 310, 316, 328

  Morvan, Marie, 152

  Moscow: Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street, 363; Hotel National, 357; Sovetskaya Hotel, 352

  Moscow News, 362

  Mosley, Sir Oswald, 59, 73

  Mount, Lady Julia, 247

  Mount Royal Hotel, London, 123, 127

  Moynihan, Rodrigo, 285

  Muggeridge, Kitty, 208, 325

  Muggeridge, Malcolm, 29, 208–9, 325

  Muir, Robin, 351

  Munich Agreement (1938), 89–91, 91–2, 96, 140–41, 173, 369

  Münster Verlag (publishing company), 49

  Murdoch, Dame Iris, 364

  Murray, James, 237

  Mussolini, Benito, 27, 67, 68, 97

  Nagasaki, atomic bombing, 161, 171, 185

  Napoleon I, Emperor, 89, 91, 157

  Narvia, SS, 121

  Narvik, 103

  National Government (1931–40), 30, 31, 32, 35–6

  NATO, 280; formation, 202

  Nazism, 27, 29, 38, 67–8, 89–90, 189

  Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939), 91, 96–9, 104–5, 180; Western reactions to, 99–102, 286

  Netherlands, 83, 116

  New Deal, 148, 149

  New Masses (magazine), 104

  New York, 111, 128, 141–2, 143, 153, 197, 295; Italian Library of Information, 175; London Terrace restaurant, 175; Martha Washington Hotel, 197; Plaza Hotel, 204; Soviet Consulate, 198

  New York Times, 121, 173, 182

  Newnham College, Cambridge, 42

  News of the World, 357

  Nicolson, Sir Harold, 131

  non-conformism see Methodism; Presbyterianism

  Non-Intervention agreement (Spanish Civil War), 75–7

  North Cornwall (parliamentary constituency), 11

  Norway, 103, 116; see also Oslo

  nuclear war, threat of, 209, 215, 232, 280, 281

  nuclear weapons, development of see atomic and nuclear weapons

  Nunn May, Alan see May, Alan Nunn

  Nuremberg rallies, 67

  Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, 173

  Observer, The (newspaper), 241–2, 288, 372, 377–8, 382

  Odeon (cinema chain), 49

  Oetking, Nancy (née Maclean; DM’s sister), 4, 10, 11, 75, 223, 348; career, 137–8, 211; marriage, 211; and DM’s disappearance, 317, 321–3, 342n

  Oetking, Robert “Bob,” 211, 317, 321–2

  Okolona, Mississippi, 179

  Oldfield, Sir Maurice, 233

  Oppenheimer, Robert, 200

  Ordzhonikidze (Soviet cruiser), 359

  Orlov, Alexander, Handbook of Counter-Intelligence and Guerrilla Warfare, 86, 94

  Ormsby-Gore, Mary see Mayall, Mary, Lady

  Ormsby-Gore, William (later 4th Baron Harlech), 58, 88

  Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four, 357; The Road to Wigan Pier, 74

  Oslo, 297–8

  OSS (US Office of Strategic Services), 137, 154

  Ottawa, 169–70; Commonwealth Conference (1932), 36

  Our Fighting Navy (film; 1933), 39

  Ouspensky, P.D., 198

  Overlord, Operation (D-Day landings; 1944), 134, 139, 277

  Owings, Mrs (Washington neighbour), 192

  Oxford Union, 59

  Oxted, Surrey, railway station, 1, 288

  Page, Chantry, 167, 169

  Pain, Patience, 285–6

  Pakenham, Frank, Lord (later 7th Earl of Longford), 28–90

  Palestine, 105, 205–6

  parental relations, of Cambridge Five, 55–6, 110

  Paris: British Embassy, 88, 91, 95, 109, 117, 118, 120; Café Flore, 109, 111, 114; Gare d’Austerlitz, 338; Hôtel Montana, 111; Luxembourg Gardens, 93; Palais Bourbon, 120; Place de la Bourse, 333; Place de la Madeleine, 92; Restaurant du Forêt, 324; rue de Bellechasse, 95; Saint Germain des Prés, 109; Scribe Hotel, 325

  Park Royal tube station, London, 129

  Parker, Albert, 204

  Parker, Charlotte, 204

  Partridge, Frances, 258, 271

  Paterson, Geoffrey, 282, 283, 290, 293–4, 304, 309, 312–13, 329

  Patterson, Robert P., 188

  Paul, King of Yugoslavia, 130

  Paul, St, 378

  Pavlov, Vitali, 170

  Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack (1941), 136

  Penn, Buckinghamshire, 11, 36, 372, 378–9, 380; Elm Cottage, 11, 122–3

  Penn, William, 11

  Pentagon building, Virginia, 201

  Petrov, Vladimir, 336–7, 357, 367

  Petrovna, Nadezhda, 377

  Petsamo, Finland, 136–7

  Philby, Aileen, 265

  Philby, Eleanor, 373–5

  Philby, Kim: family background, 34; early life, 34, 56; appearance and character, 34, 47, 133, 160, 232; at Cambridge, 34; friendship with Guy Burgess, 34; DM first meets, 34; in Vienna, 47; recruitment as Soviet agent, 47–8, 50, 55, 61, 70, 106; and recruitment of DM and Burgess, 47, 51, 53–4, 62; reporter in Spain during Civil War, 74, 126; works at MI6, 159–60, 172; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 100; wartime espionage, 92, 116–17, 126, 133, 134, 159–60; and attempted defection of Konstantin Volkov, 168–9; and defection of Igor Gouzenko, 172, 174; and Elizabeth Bentley disclosures, 176; and “Venona” decrypts evidence, 229, 232–3, 265; posting to Washington Embassy, 233, 236–7, 264, 275; and Walter Krivitsky’s partial identifications, 237–8, 283, 291; and Burgess’s posting to Washington, 265; and security services’ investigations of Washington Embassy leaks, 283–4, 290–91, 293–5, 297, 309; and Burgess’s recall to London, 295; and DM and Burgess’s defections, 307, 309–310, 313, 329–30; recalled to London, 331; questioned by Jim Skardon, 331; holds press conference denying espionage, 60; defection, 373; life in Soviet Union, 364, 373–5; memoirs, 366–7

  Philby, Rufina, 375

  Philby, St John, 34, 50

  Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 211–12

  Philipps, Wogan (later 2nd Baron Milford), 18, 74, 382

  Phillips, Cecil, 217

  Phipps, Sir Eric, 88, 90, 95, 103, 109

  Pieck, Hans, 106

  Pokrovsky, Mikhail, Brief History of Russia, 43

  Poland, 98, 132, 155, 157–8, 207, 277

  Pollock, Peter, 60

  Pontecorvo, Bruno, 263–4, 330

  Pontecorvo, Gilberto, 263

  Poole, Alan, 324

  Poretsky, Ignace, 104, 144

  Portsmouth, 359

  Potsdam Conference (1945), 161, 181, 182, 186

  Potter, Beatrix, 365

  Prague, 335, 338–9

  Pravda (newspaper), 163, 359

  Pravdin, Vladimir, 144–5, 150, 154, 176, 298

  Presbyterianism, 11, 14, 23, 28

  Profumo, John, 328

  public schools, 13–14; see also Gresham’s School; Rugby School; Westminster School, Eton College

  Quebec Conference/Agreement (1943), 185, 186

  Quebec Conference (1944), 150, 218

  Queen Elizabeth, HMS, 140
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  Queen Mary, RMS, 204, 298, 303, 320

  radiograms, 159

  Raina, Ivan, 306

  Randall, Miss (Washington Embassy staff member), 297

  Ranken, Gavin, 276, 297

  Rassemblement Mondial des Etudiants, 53, 96

  rationing, 122, 164

  Reed, John Leigh, 167, 169

  Rees, Goronwy, 35, 100–101, 130, 265, 286–7, 336

  Reform Club, 261, 305, 307, 316, 320

  Regent’s Park, London, 48

  Reich, Wilhelm, 48–9

  Reif, Ignace, 54

  Reilly, Sir Patrick, 95, 296, 305, 315, 368

  Reiss, Ignace, 104, 144

  Reith, John (later 1st Baron Reith), 14, 17

  Rennes, 5, 337

  Rhayader, Leif Jones, 1st Baron, 52

  Rhineland, remilitarisation (1936), 68

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 99

  Ridley, Cressida (earlier Bonham Carter), 57, 60

  Ridley, Jasper, 60, 270

  Ridsdale, Sir William, 242

  Rient, Trudi, 228–9

  Roberts, Sir Douglas, 168

  Robertson, James, 296, 309, 331

  Romania, 151, 158, 182, 277

  Rome, British Embassy, 69

  Romilly, Esmond and Giles, 59, 60

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 76, 146, 147, 150, 155–6, 157–8, 185, 186n

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 149

  Rosenbaum, Erna, 254, 256–7, 259–60, 261, 266, 268, 270, 271, 287, 297, 301

  Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 181

  Rothschild, Victor, 3rd Baron, 38, 130, 197, 261

  Royal Automobile Club, 305, 307

  rugby, 7, 52

  Rugby School, 242

  Ruislip, Middlesex, 279, 303

  Rumbold, Sir Anthony, 57, 64

  Rumbold, Sir Horace, 57, 64

  Saanenmöser, Switzerland, 351

  Saarland, reintegration into German Reich (1935), 67

  Sackville-West, Edward (later 5th Baron Sackville), 271

  St Ermin’s Hotel, London, 106

  St Gall, Switzerland, 344

  Saint Jacut, 44, 316

  Saint Malo, 5, 322, 337

  St Mary’s College, Lancaster Gate (school), 13

  Samara see Kuybyshev

  San Francisco, 144

  “Sandwichmen, The” (DM; schoolboy short-story), 21–2

 

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