MACLEAN OF SPY FAME REPORTED DEAD IN SOVIET
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CREST [1]
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CIA-RDP90-00552R000404050007-3
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Document Creation Date:
December 22, 2016
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June 25, 2010
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Publication Date:
March 11, 1983
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ARIL CI AF? NEW YORK TIME'S
c nox, X - S 11 MARCH 1983
Maclean of Spy Fame
Reported Dead in Soviet
MOSCOW, March 10 (Reuters) -;
Donald Maclean, the British diplomat
who spied for Moscow more than 30
years ago, was reported tonight to be ill
in a hospital and there were uncon-
firmed reports that he had died.
Mr. Macl ed to the Soviet Union
in 1951 with Burgess, now dead,
and
after being tipped off that
American counterintelligence agents
were dosing in on them. Mr. Maclean
took Soviet citizenship after his defeo
tion and worked as an analyst of British(
policies atp Moscow foreign reations.!
institute.
He is believed to have passed on for-.
eign policy secrets to Moscow over a
period of 15 years.
bound after a six-week stay in a ' Mos-,
cow clinic late last year, was not. at
home in his riverside apartment -and
neighbors said they did not know where
he had gone. He was treated for urologi-
cal ailments and other problems in
November and December.
STAT
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