McLain, Donald Donaldovich

Donald Duart McLain was born May 25, 1913 in the family of Donald McLain (1864-1932) - a prominent British politician from the Liberal Party, Minister of Education of England in 1931-1932.

In 1931-1933 he studied at the Department of Modern Languages ​​at Trinity College, Cambridge . In 1933-1934 he studied at the University of London. Specialist in France and Germany.

Since August 1934, with the help of his student friend Kim Philby, he began to cooperate with Soviet intelligence, explaining his decision with an awareness of the growing threat of fascism ^[5] . After graduating from university, he was urged to quit the Communist Party and get a job at the Foreign Office .

Since 1934, McLain has been in the diplomatic service. Kitty Harris was his liaison officer in the late 1930s before being transferred to Paris. In 1938, McLain was appointed secretary of the British Embassy in Paris.

In 1939, while working in Paris, he met the American Melinda Marling, whom she married on June 10, 1940.

In 1940, after the evacuation of the embassy, ​​McLain was transferred from Paris to the post of secretary of the embassy in Washington . He also chaired a joint committee on nuclear research and gained access to US nuclear program documents. In 1941, Walter Krivitsky , a Soviet defector, informed British intelligence about the existence of a “mole”, in his testimony it was theoretically possible to identify McLain. In 1944, McLain was appointed first secretary of the English Embassy in Washington. Since 1948, McLain has been an adviser to the embassy in Cairo. In 1950, he was promoted to head of the American Department of the Foreign Office . Had access to classified information on the nuclear program.

In 1951, Kim Philby warned McClain that he and Burgess had been revealed. McLain and Burgess were smuggled into the USSR. By order of the head of the Ministry of State Security, S. D. Ignatiev, “for security reasons”, they were sent to the city of Kuibyshev ^[9] , which was closed to foreigners under the names of Mark Petrovich Fraser (McLain) and Jim Andreevich Eliot (Burgess). McLain began working as an English teacher at a local teacher's college ^[10] . July 28, 1952 Mark Petrovich wrote a request to enroll him in the staff of the university as a teacher of English ^[4] . He believed that “Russian people should know English, since the upcoming world revolution should have ended in English” ^[4] .

Since the summer of 1955, McLain has lived in Moscow. From the same year he worked in the journal " International Affairs ", wrote under the pseudonym S. Modzayevsky.

According to Lyudmila Chernoy , the first years of his life in the USSR McLain abused alcohol, but after a few years he managed to completely overcome this vice ^[6] .

From 1961 until his death, McLain worked at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He prepared several major works on various problems of international relations. For the monograph "Foreign Policy of England after Suez", published in the USSR, as well as in England and the USA, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. In 1969, McLain defended his thesis on "Problems of British Foreign Policy at the Present Stage."

The last years of his life had cancer.

In 1983, Donald Donald McLain died of a heart attack. Later, the urn with his ashes was sent to his homeland, where he was kept in a family crypt until 1985, when McLain's son Donald moved it to the United States where his family lived.

Over the years of cooperation with Soviet foreign intelligence, MacLaine handed her a large number of top secret documentary materials, including encrypted correspondence between the British Foreign Ministry and its embassies abroad, cabinet minutes, US and UK plans for the use of atomic energy for military purposes. His information on this issue was received in September 1941 and played an important role in the deployment of similar work on the creation of atomic weapons in the USSR.

• McLain's wife, Melinda, moved to him from America, but soon divorced him and married Kim Philby .
• Great-grandson of McLain in 1983 married the granddaughter of another member of the Cambridge Five, Guy Burgess .

• Cambridge five

• Biography on the SVR website
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• Pavel Evdokimov. The real Stirlitz // Russian Special Forces : newspaper. - 2003. - February ( No. 02 [77] ). Archived on April 18, 2003.
• S. G. Khumaryan. This work is my life. 25 years have passed since the creation of the Museum of the History of the Office of the FSB of the Russian Federation in the Samara Region ("PB") // "Industry and Business": newspaper. - Samara, 2004. - February 25 ( No. 4 [166] ). Archived on September 27, 2007.
• Boris Kozhin, Svetlana Vnukova. William Fisher, Donald Macklin and others // "Volga commune" : newspaper. - Samara, 2008 .-- May 20. Archived June 17, 2010.
• Dolgopolov N. From Homer to Stalin. Scout Don MacLane passed all tests not only in England but also in the USSR // Rossiyskaya Gazeta , July 26, 2017