PHILBY, RED SPY, WED TO FORMER MRS. MACLEAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220024-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: October 3, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Russian Spy Harold "Kira"
Phiiby is now married to the
ex-wife of a fore: er British
diplomat who defected to the
!Soviet Union, the Daily !Mirror
reported today.
The Mirror said the 55-
year-old former top British intelli-
` ence Official, who :'Dent behind
the Iron Curtain four years ago,
is now living with Chicago-born
Melinda Maclean in xurious
apartment on the outskirts of
'Iosc'ow.
:file 51-year-o'ld : illericanl
woman was the wife of Donald
Maclean, who defected to the
Russians along with the late
.Guy Burgess.
The Mirror reported that the
divorce of the Macleans anti the
marriage between Philby and
Melinda took place in great;
secrecy in Moscow last summer.
(In Moscow, Maclean was
asked about the rencr t his wife
had left him for Pililby. "I won't
discuss it at ail," he said. "f!
won't confirm or deny it.")
Maclean, 5?, and his wife, who
were married is London in X91d,
have three chiciren.
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