Character & characteristics: aggression, 35, 149, 161–2, 266, 287; alter egos, 24–5, 35, 43, 109, 301; anti-Americanism, 141, 148, 152, 188, 215, 358, 370; appearance, 1, 19, 22–3, 35, 51, 57, 113, 142, 266, 297; attention to detail, 37, 150, 158; attitude to war and peace, 33, 365; charm, 34, 52, 57, 208, 258, 279, 366; childhood achievements, 7, 21–2, 52; code-names and pseudonyms, 54, 78, 146, 297, 361, 363; conscientiousness, 37, 79, 139, 147–8, 237; diffidence, 34, 42, 57–8, 77; dress, 1, 38, 57, 66, 317, 377; drinking and alcoholism, 2, 12, 17, 22, 34–5, 95, 113–14, 138, 152, 161–2, 197–8, 205, 220–21, 237, 243, 255–6, 266, 284–6, 289, 374; effeminacy, 23, 113; evasiveness, 24–5; fatherhood, 145, 284, 301, 311; handwriting, 204, 266, 344; idealism, 34–5, 358; immaturity, 55, 124, 128, 138–9, 223; industriousness, 37, 42, 77, 79, 92; introversion, 34, 78; language skills, 30, 57, 360; memory, 86, 145; morality, 12–13, 19, 22, 23, 34, 37, 188, 212; need for praise and reassurance, 55–6, 110, 125, 128, 216, 262–3; outsider, 26, 42–3; patriotism, 53, 132, 188, 215, 380; preference for bohemian lifestyle, 109, 212, 308; relations with parents, 12–13, 22, 31, 49, 56; relations with women, 45–6, 55, 57–9, 87, 113; secrecy, 14, 17, 125; sexuality, 17, 35, 44, 60, 196–7, 270–71; smoking, 77, 376; solitariness, 42–3; sporting prowess, 7, 25, 37, 42, 52, 141; support for underdog, 37–8, 212–13, 223, 369; temper, 193–4
Maclean, Donald (“Beany”; DM’s son): birth, 196; childhood, 197, 210, 243, 267, 269, 284, 299, 347; and father’s defection, 1, 4, 317; family moves to Geneva, 348, 349–50, 351; holiday in Majorca, 350–51; family joins DM in Soviet Union, 351–3, 362; life in Soviet Union, 363, 365, 372; marriage and later life, 376
Maclean, Sir Ewen (DM’s uncle), 9
Maclean, Fergus (DM’s son): birth, 143; childhood, 151, 197, 210, 267, 269, 284, 299, 347; and father’s defection, 1, 4, 317, 341; family moves to Geneva, 348, 349–50, 351; holiday in Majorca, 350–51; family joins DM in Soviet Union, 351–3, 362; life in Soviet Union, 363, 372; marriage and later life, 376, 377; interment of DM’s ashes, 378–9
Maclean, Sir Fitzroy, 1st Baronet, 51, 87–8
Maclean, Sir Fitzroy, 26th Clan Chief, 8
Maclean, Gwendolen, Lady (née Devitt; DM’s mother): family background, 10, 123; appearance and character, 10–11, 123; marriage and family life, 10–11, 14; and DM’s student life, 33, 42–3, 44; and DM’s politics and post-university career options, 44, 45–6, 51, 61; widowhood, 45–6, 123; visits DM in Paris, 95; and DM’s marriage, 122–3, 268, 269; visits DM and family in Washington and Cairo, 164, 220; DM visits on return to England, 251; and DM’s treatment for breakdown, 255; phone tapped by security services, 297, 348–9; during DM’s last days in England, 300, 301, 321; learns of DM’s disappearance, 322–3; in months following DM’s disappearance, 341, 342; interviewed by Jim Skardon, 332–3, 340, 342; receives telegram from Paris, 333–4; reaction to DM’s espionage and defection, 10–11, 56, 346–7, 348–9; later life and death, 372
Maclean, Ian (DM’s brother), 11, 12, 14, 18; death, 137
Maclean, John (DM’s grandfather), 9
Maclean, Lucy (née Hanna; DM’s daughter-in-law), 376
Maclean, Melinda (née Marling; DM’s wife): background and early life, 110–111, 298; appearance and character, 109, 110, 111–12, 207–8, 298; first meets DM in Paris, 109; their courtship, 110, 112–14, 118; knowledge of DM’s espionage, 115–16, 138, 154; marriage and honeymoon, 118–21; first pregnancy, 119, 127, 128; couple returns to Britain, 121, 122; early married life, 122–3, 127, 131, 138; travels to New York to escape Blitz, 128; stillbirth of first child, 128; returns to London, 131, 138; second pregnancy, 139, 142; in United States during DM’s Washington posting, 139, 141–4, 151–3, 154, 164–5, 192, 196–8, 298, 310–311; birth of son Fergus, 143; trip to Bermuda with DM, 178; and DM’s declining mental state, 164–5, 196–7, 220–21, 222, 237; birth of son Donald, 196; family leaves Washington, 204; in Cairo during DM’s embassy posting, 207–9, 210–213, 216, 220–21, 222, 224, 231; growing marital difficulties, 220–21, 223, 231, 244; and DM’s drunken incident at boat party, 224, 226; family’s month’s leave in Italy, 227, 231; and DM’s requests for exfiltration to Moscow, 240; and DM’s drunken binge with Philip Toynbee, 241, 243, 244, 245–9, 258–9; and DM’s return to England and treatment for breakdown, 250, 252–3, 254, 255; leaves Egypt for Spain, 259, 267; reconciliation with DM in England, 267–70; family life in Kent, 273, 284, 286, 289, 299; during DM’s last days in England, 300, 301–2, 307, 308, 311–12; and DM’s decision to defect, 312; on day of DM’s disappearance, 1, 4–5, 317, 319–22; months following disappearance, 322–3, 340–42, 344–50; interviewed by Jim Skardon, 311, 320, 332–3, 340; receives telegram from Paris, 333–4; birth of daughter Melinda, 315–16, 318, 341–2; receives letter from DM, 344–6; trip to South of France, 344, 346; family moves to Geneva, 348, 349–50, 351; holiday in Majorca, 350–51; joins DM in Soviet Union, 351–5, 362; life in Soviet Union, 362–3, 364–5, 372, 373–4; relationship with Kim Philby and end of marriage, 374–5; returns to United States, 376–7; later life and death, 377
Maclean, Melinda (“Mimsie”; DM’s daughter), 318, 341–2, 345, 351–2, 363, 365, 372, 376
Maclean, Nancy (DM’s sister) see Oetking, Nancy
Maclean, Olga (DM’s daughter-in-law), 376
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton), 343, 365, 367
Macmillan (publishing company), 343, 365, 369
MacNeice, Louis, 23n; Autumn Journal, 75, 90, 102
McNeil, Hector, 208, 264
Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 257
Maisky, Ivan, 97, 98, 103, 131–2, 133
Majorca, 350–51
Makins, Sir Roger (later 1st Baron Sherfield): appearance and character, 187; Economic Minister at Washington Embassy, 187–8, 191, 192, 381; as possible intelligence leak, 239, 292, 381; and Maclean’s posting to FO American Department, 272, 381; and security services’ investigations of Washington Embassy leaks, 309, 315–16; and Burgess and Maclean defections, 3, 5, 319, 323, 330, 381; later career, 203, 381
Mallet, Sir Victor, 105, 107, 118
Malraux, André, Days of Contempt, 74
Maly, Lydia, 71
Maly, Teodor: background, appearance and character, 70–71; early life, 71; “illegal” in London, 70, 71, 107; handling of DM, 71–2, 81, 82, 107; and Woolwich Arsenal spy ring, 81, 84; MI5 identification of, 80, 81, 84; recalled to Moscow, 79–80, 81, 125–6, 262; death, 80, 125, 312
Manhattan Project (US atomic weapons development), 117, 180, 186–7, 233–4
Mao Tse-tung, 232
Markievicz, Constance, 292
Marling, Catherine, 110, 344, 353
Marling, Eleanor, 193
Marling, Francis, 110–111, 113
Marling, Harriet (later Sheers): childhood, 110; in Paris with sister Melinda, 111, 112; rejects advances of Peter Solly-Flood, 193; visits Macleans in Washington and Egypt, 197, 224, 231, 243, 319; and DM’s drunken binge and breakdown, 245, 247, 250, 253, 257, 259; marriage, 301–2; visits Macleans in England, 301–3; support for Melinda after DM’s disappearance, 341, 350
Marling, Melinda (DM’s mother-in-law) see Dunbar, Melinda
Marling, Melinda Goodlett (DM’s wife) see Maclean, Melinda
Marshall, George C., 199–201
Marshall Plan, 200–201
Martin, Arthur, 283, 296, 309
Marylebone: Bentinck Street, 130, 197; Presbyterian Church, 14, 42; Rossmore Court, 131
Masaryk, Jan, death, 201
Mascot Hotel, London, 267
Mason, Sir Frederick, 317
Matthews, H. Freeman “Doc,” 153, 154
Maudsley Hospital, 255
May, Alan Nunn, 171–4, 185, 186, 190, 191, 234, 236, 263, 287, 308, 330
Mayall, Sir Lees, 58, 223–6, 229–30, 246, 260, 267, 270, 273, 301
Mayall, Mary, Lady (née Ormsby-Gore; earlier Campbell), 58, 61, 88, 95, 223, 224
Mecklenburgh Square, London, 127
Medved
ev, Roy, 369
Menzies, Sir Stewart, 168
Methodism, 9
Middleton, Sir George: at Washington Embassy, 141, 152–3, 162, 164; head of Foreign Office personnel, 222, 248–9, 285; and DM’s treatment for breakdown, 252–3, 256, 257, 258, 260, 268; and DM’s posting to American Department, 271–2
Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, 121
Miljković, Dušan, 335
Millar, Frederick Hoyer (later 1st Baron Inchyra), 88, 95
Miller, Bernard, 320
Minley Manor, Surrey (War Office training centre), 129
Modin, Yuri, 214, 216, 240, 264, 272–3, 279, 303, 305, 307, 313–14, 352–3
Modrzhinskaya, Elena, 133–4, 138, 160
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 97, 98, 150, 158, 182, 183, 200, 357
Montreux, 351
Moonglow Club, Soho, 270–71
Moore, Herbert, 255–6, 257
Morgenthau Plan, 150
Morning Star (newspaper), 367
Morrison, Herbert (later Baron Morrison of Lambeth), 2, 310, 316, 328
Morvan, Marie, 152
Moscow: Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street, 363; Hotel National, 357; Sovetskaya Hotel, 352
Moscow News, 362
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 59, 73
Mount, Lady Julia, 247
Mount Royal Hotel, London, 123, 127
Moynihan, Rodrigo, 285
Muggeridge, Kitty, 208, 325
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 29, 208–9, 325
Muir, Robin, 351
Munich Agreement (1938), 89–91, 91–2, 96, 140–41, 173, 369
Münster Verlag (publishing company), 49
Murdoch, Dame Iris, 364
Murray, James, 237
Mussolini, Benito, 27, 67, 68, 97
Nagasaki, atomic bombing, 161, 171, 185
Napoleon I, Emperor, 89, 91, 157
Narvia, SS, 121
Narvik, 103
National Government (1931–40), 30, 31, 32, 35–6
NATO, 280; formation, 202
Nazism, 27, 29, 38, 67–8, 89–90, 189
Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939), 91, 96–9, 104–5, 180; Western reactions to, 99–102, 286
Netherlands, 83, 116
New Deal, 148, 149
New Masses (magazine), 104
New York, 111, 128, 141–2, 143, 153, 197, 295; Italian Library of Information, 175; London Terrace restaurant, 175; Martha Washington Hotel, 197; Plaza Hotel, 204; Soviet Consulate, 198
New York Times, 121, 173, 182
Newnham College, Cambridge, 42
News of the World, 357
Nicolson, Sir Harold, 131
non-conformism see Methodism; Presbyterianism
Non-Intervention agreement (Spanish Civil War), 75–7
North Cornwall (parliamentary constituency), 11
Norway, 103, 116; see also Oslo
nuclear war, threat of, 209, 215, 232, 280, 281
nuclear weapons, development of see atomic and nuclear weapons
Nunn May, Alan see May, Alan Nunn
Nuremberg rallies, 67
Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, 173
Observer, The (newspaper), 241–2, 288, 372, 377–8, 382
Odeon (cinema chain), 49
Oetking, Nancy (née Maclean; DM’s sister), 4, 10, 11, 75, 223, 348; career, 137–8, 211; marriage, 211; and DM’s disappearance, 317, 321–3, 342n
Oetking, Robert “Bob,” 211, 317, 321–2
Okolona, Mississippi, 179
Oldfield, Sir Maurice, 233
Oppenheimer, Robert, 200
Ordzhonikidze (Soviet cruiser), 359
Orlov, Alexander, Handbook of Counter-Intelligence and Guerrilla Warfare, 86, 94
Ormsby-Gore, Mary see Mayall, Mary, Lady
Ormsby-Gore, William (later 4th Baron Harlech), 58, 88
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four, 357; The Road to Wigan Pier, 74
Oslo, 297–8
OSS (US Office of Strategic Services), 137, 154
Ottawa, 169–70; Commonwealth Conference (1932), 36
Our Fighting Navy (film; 1933), 39
Ouspensky, P.D., 198
Overlord, Operation (D-Day landings; 1944), 134, 139, 277
Owings, Mrs (Washington neighbour), 192
Oxford Union, 59
Oxted, Surrey, railway station, 1, 288
Page, Chantry, 167, 169
Pain, Patience, 285–6
Pakenham, Frank, Lord (later 7th Earl of Longford), 28–90
Palestine, 105, 205–6
parental relations, of Cambridge Five, 55–6, 110
Paris: British Embassy, 88, 91, 95, 109, 117, 118, 120; Café Flore, 109, 111, 114; Gare d’Austerlitz, 338; Hôtel Montana, 111; Luxembourg Gardens, 93; Palais Bourbon, 120; Place de la Bourse, 333; Place de la Madeleine, 92; Restaurant du Forêt, 324; rue de Bellechasse, 95; Saint Germain des Prés, 109; Scribe Hotel, 325
Park Royal tube station, London, 129
Parker, Albert, 204
Parker, Charlotte, 204
Partridge, Frances, 258, 271
Paterson, Geoffrey, 282, 283, 290, 293–4, 304, 309, 312–13, 329
Patterson, Robert P., 188
Paul, King of Yugoslavia, 130
Paul, St, 378
Pavlov, Vitali, 170
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack (1941), 136
Penn, Buckinghamshire, 11, 36, 372, 378–9, 380; Elm Cottage, 11, 122–3
Penn, William, 11
Pentagon building, Virginia, 201
Petrov, Vladimir, 336–7, 357, 367
Petrovna, Nadezhda, 377
Petsamo, Finland, 136–7
Philby, Aileen, 265
Philby, Eleanor, 373–5
Philby, Kim: family background, 34; early life, 34, 56; appearance and character, 34, 47, 133, 160, 232; at Cambridge, 34; friendship with Guy Burgess, 34; DM first meets, 34; in Vienna, 47; recruitment as Soviet agent, 47–8, 50, 55, 61, 70, 106; and recruitment of DM and Burgess, 47, 51, 53–4, 62; reporter in Spain during Civil War, 74, 126; works at MI6, 159–60, 172; reaction to Nazi–Soviet Pact, 100; wartime espionage, 92, 116–17, 126, 133, 134, 159–60; and attempted defection of Konstantin Volkov, 168–9; and defection of Igor Gouzenko, 172, 174; and Elizabeth Bentley disclosures, 176; and “Venona” decrypts evidence, 229, 232–3, 265; posting to Washington Embassy, 233, 236–7, 264, 275; and Walter Krivitsky’s partial identifications, 237–8, 283, 291; and Burgess’s posting to Washington, 265; and security services’ investigations of Washington Embassy leaks, 283–4, 290–91, 293–5, 297, 309; and Burgess’s recall to London, 295; and DM and Burgess’s defections, 307, 309–310, 313, 329–30; recalled to London, 331; questioned by Jim Skardon, 331; holds press conference denying espionage, 60; defection, 373; life in Soviet Union, 364, 373–5; memoirs, 366–7
Philby, Rufina, 375
Philby, St John, 34, 50
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 211–12
Philipps, Wogan (later 2nd Baron Milford), 18, 74, 382
Phillips, Cecil, 217
Phipps, Sir Eric, 88, 90, 95, 103, 109
Pieck, Hans, 106
Pokrovsky, Mikhail, Brief History of Russia, 43
Poland, 98, 132, 155, 157–8, 207, 277
Pollock, Peter, 60
Pontecorvo, Bruno, 263–4, 330
Pontecorvo, Gilberto, 263
Poole, Alan, 324
Poretsky, Ignace, 104, 144
Portsmouth, 359
Potsdam Conference (1945), 161, 181, 182, 186
Potter, Beatrix, 365
Prague, 335, 338–9
Pravda (newspaper), 163, 359
Pravdin, Vladimir, 144–5, 150, 154, 176, 298
Presbyterianism, 11, 14, 23, 28
Profumo, John, 328
public schools, 13–14; see also Gresham’s School; Rugby School; Westminster School, Eton College
Quebec Conference/Agreement (1943), 185, 186
Quebec Conference (1944), 150, 218
Queen Elizabeth, HMS, 140
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Queen Mary, RMS, 204, 298, 303, 320
radiograms, 159
Raina, Ivan, 306
Randall, Miss (Washington Embassy staff member), 297
Ranken, Gavin, 276, 297
Rassemblement Mondial des Etudiants, 53, 96
rationing, 122, 164
Reed, John Leigh, 167, 169
Rees, Goronwy, 35, 100–101, 130, 265, 286–7, 336
Reform Club, 261, 305, 307, 316, 320
Regent’s Park, London, 48
Reich, Wilhelm, 48–9
Reif, Ignace, 54
Reilly, Sir Patrick, 95, 296, 305, 315, 368
Reiss, Ignace, 104, 144
Reith, John (later 1st Baron Reith), 14, 17
Rennes, 5, 337
Rhayader, Leif Jones, 1st Baron, 52
Rhineland, remilitarisation (1936), 68
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 99
Ridley, Cressida (earlier Bonham Carter), 57, 60
Ridley, Jasper, 60, 270
Ridsdale, Sir William, 242
Rient, Trudi, 228–9
Roberts, Sir Douglas, 168
Robertson, James, 296, 309, 331
Romania, 151, 158, 182, 277
Rome, British Embassy, 69
Romilly, Esmond and Giles, 59, 60
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 76, 146, 147, 150, 155–6, 157–8, 185, 186n
Roosevelt, Theodore, 149
Rosenbaum, Erna, 254, 256–7, 259–60, 261, 266, 268, 270, 271, 287, 297, 301
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 181
Rothschild, Victor, 3rd Baron, 38, 130, 197, 261
Royal Automobile Club, 305, 307
rugby, 7, 52
Rugby School, 242
Ruislip, Middlesex, 279, 303
Rumbold, Sir Anthony, 57, 64
Rumbold, Sir Horace, 57, 64
Saanenmöser, Switzerland, 351
Saarland, reintegration into German Reich (1935), 67
Sackville-West, Edward (later 5th Baron Sackville), 271
St Ermin’s Hotel, London, 106
St Gall, Switzerland, 344
Saint Jacut, 44, 316
Saint Malo, 5, 322, 337
St Mary’s College, Lancaster Gate (school), 13
Samara see Kuybyshev
San Francisco, 144
“Sandwichmen, The” (DM; schoolboy short-story), 21–2
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