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The First Man: A Most Valuable Agent
Donald Maclean -- the son of a knighted member of Parliament -- embraced Communism while at Cambridge. But after the Soviets recruited him, he intentionally distanced himself from Communism in order to get a job with the British Foreign Office. Posted at the British Embassy in Washington, Maclean (codename: Homer) passed on reams of information to Moscow, including top secret documents on the US military in Korea. When US decrypts of Soviet diplomatic messages -- the VENONA project -- threatened to expose him in 1951, he and fellow spy Guy Burgess defected to Moscow where Maclean died in 1983. |