Cambridge Spies | How Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt and Cairncross were unmasked
PM | Donald Maclean
Donald Maclean writes a book on British foreign policy.
CHANNEL | Radio 4
FIRST BROADCAST | 28 April 1970
DURATION | 3 minutes 47 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1970
Synopsis
In this short interview from 'PM', Donald Maclean talks about his new book, 'British Foreign Policy Since Suez'. Speaking from Moscow, Maclean explains why he wrote the volume, while interviewer Jim Biddulph pushes unsuccessfully to persuade him to talk about his involvement in the notorious Cambridge spy ring.
Did you know?
Maclean fled to the USSR in 1951, along with fellow spy Guy Burgess. He went by the alias of Comrade Madzoevsky and worked initially as a translator, enjoying a comfortable life in Moscow with access to luxuries not available to the ordinary Soviet citizen.
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