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The Second Man: Socialite Spy
An upper class background and charming personality gave Guy Burgess (codename: Madchen) access to Britain's elite. He began spying after graduation and eventually landed a job at the Foreign Office, using his position to betray Britain's foreign policy and nuclear bomb program. Meanwhile, his blatant homosexuality (his codename meant "girl") and drinking binges earned him notoriety on the diplomatic cocktail circuit. In 1951, he and fellow spy Donald Maclean defected to Moscow, where Burgess died twelve years later at the age of 52, a victim of his alcoholism. |