[…] was imprisoned partly as a sop to the USA, who wanted the Foreign Office to make an example of someone in the aftermath of the Burgess and Maclean defection, and partly because Anthony Eden was convinced that Montagu had seduced his son whilst they were both at Eton. The book ends with Losey surveying […]
[…] persistent men of British politics, Tam Dalyell and Sir Teddy Taylor. At some length in the House of Commons in May, they raised their concerns with David Maclean, the Home Office Minister. In the presence of Fletcher’s parents the Minister denounced the programme as ‘preposterous trash’. While it was also ‘obscene’, ‘offensive’, and ‘feverish’, […]
[…] 129) ‘Must have been clear to Hollis’ (p. 140) ‘Hollis would clearly have agreed (p. 144) The next chapter, ‘The Great Mole Hunt – From Burgess and Maclean to Spycatcher‘, turgidly regurgitates what has been written by other people about this area, and introduces nothing new of any substance. After 172 pages of non-starters […]
[…] 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et al, in whom I was never very interested. It might be bulging with new information; I just don’t know (or care). There are […]
[…] down Nazi war criminals until 1947. (Daily Telegraph 10 June 1991) Group Captain John Selby: joined SOE in Cairo and worked as air liaison officer to Fitzroy Maclean and then as station commander in the Middle East. After the war with the BBC with the Overseas Service as director of European programmes. (Daily Telegraph […]
[…] putting finishing touches to the plan….The Special Branch began compiling a ‘Black Book’ of known perverts in influential government jobs after the disappearance of the diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, who were known to have pervert associates . Now comes the difficult task of side-tracking these men into less important jobs – or […]
[…] OBE (1976) B 19.7.13, D 15.7.82 ORIEL COLL OXFORD 1938 ZAGREB (CROATIA) BRITISH COUNCIL 1939 INFORMATION OFFICER ZAGREB 1941 POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER CAIRO 1943 YUGOSLAVIA WITH FITZROY MACLEAN 1944 INTERPRETER FOR CHURCHILL AT CASERTA (ITALY). ATTACHED MILITARY MISSION TO CROATIA ALSO VIS (YUGOSLAVIA) AND BELGRADE 1945 1ST SEC (INFO) AND PRESS ATTACHE BELGRADE 1946 […]
[…] but as usual it is just another red herring. There are many files available under the Freedom of Information Act in the US on Philby, Burgess and Maclean, (see, for example, Sunday Times 31 March 1985), and the top secret State Department decimal file for Albania 1948/9 is available for all to see in […]
[PDF file]: […] missing diplomats’. And Shakespeare devotes a chapter to it. He writes: Bond was born out of a turmoil at a moment when the (Guy) Burgess and (Donald) Maclean story was still unsolved. The news of their disappearance was a seismic event for Ian. He created a contemporary novel hero in the tradition of Drake, […]
[…] missing diplomats’. And Shakespeare devotes a chapter to it. He writes: Bond was born out of a turmoil at a moment when the (Guy) Burgess and (Donald) Maclean story was still unsolved. The news of their disappearance was a seismic event for Ian. He created a contemporary novel hero in the tradition of Drake, […]
