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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Mata Hari, Joan Pujol Garcia, Eddie Chapman, Mutt and Jeff, Donald Maclean, Sidney Reilly, Robert Hanssen, Radu Lecca, Aldrich Ames, Katrina Leung, Sergei Tretyakov, Roger Hollis, George Blake, Cambridge Five, John Cairncross, Oleg Gordievsky, Harold James Nicholson, Gunther Schutz, Edward Bancroft, Double agent, Brian Nelson, Alexander Solonik, Stanislav Levchenko, James Klugmann, Mary Stalcup Markward, Du an Popov, Yevno Azef, Eamon Broy, Earl Edwin Pitts, Pierre Alamire, William G. Sebold, Arthur Owens, Georgy Gapon, Jerzy Paw owski, Vincent Kraft, Herambalal Gupta, Mathilde Carre, David Crook, Geoffrey Prime, Karl Moor, Leandro Aragoncillo, Matei Pavel Haiducu, Heinz Felfe, Oren, Boris Morros, Mikel Lejarza, Roman Czerniawski, Michael Bettaney, April Fool, Christiaan Lindemans, Hans Clemens, Jacob Zhitomirsky, Henri Devillers. Excerpt: Donald Duart Maclean (pronounced; 25 May 1913 Marylebone, London - 6 March 1983 Moscow) was a British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five who were members of MI5, MI6 or the diplomatic service who acted as spies for the Soviet Union in the Second World War and beyond. He was recruited as a "straight penetration agent" (not a double agent) while an undergraduate at Cambridge by the Soviet intelligence service. His actions are thought to have contributed to the 1948 Soviet blockade of Berlin and the onset of the Korean War. As a reward for his espionage activities, Maclean was brevetted a colonel in the Soviet KGB. Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was the son of the Liberal politician Sir Donald Maclean, who was Leader of the parliamentary opposition for two immediate years following the First World War. Born in London, Donald Duart Maclean was the son of Sir Donald Maclean and Gwendolen Margaret Devitt. His father was chosen as chairman of ...