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Executive(SOE) inCairo, but in the absence of any missions to
undertake, he obtained a transfer toMI9and went to Istanbul to or-
ganize escape lines for Allied evaders. In April 1943 he was invited
byJulian Ameryto accompany him and Smiley onconsensus,a
mission toAlbania, and they dropped intoGreeceand trekked
across the mountains and over the frontier, escorted by Greek guerril-
las. In June 1943 they made contact with the Communist partisan
Enver Hoxha, and they remained in Albania until November when
they were extracted by a motor torpedo boat to Bari.
In April 1944 McLean went on a second mission to Albania and
remained with Hoxha until October when he was exfiltrated to Italy.
He then returned to London to report directly to theEarl of Selborne
and volunteered for duty in Ceylon. Disappointed by the lack of mis-
sions available from Colombo, he flew to Delhi and was assigned to
Kashgar in the Himalayas, but by the time he returned to India, SOE
had ceased to exist so he was attached to the viceroy’s staff. McLean
finally returned to London and resigned his commission in 1947,
only to be recruited byAlan Hareto participate invaluable, the
Secret Intelligence Service’s scheme to overthrow Hoxha in Alba-
nia. The operation failed, and in December 1954 McLean was elected
the Conservative MP for Inverness at a by-election, a seat he retained
until October 1964. He died in December 1986.MACLEAN, DONALD.One of the notoriousCambridge Five, Don-
ald Maclean, the son of a Cabinet minister, was a Soviet spy recruited
byArnold Deutsch. Maclean supplied Deutsch with documents as
soon as he joined the Foreign Office in October 1935 and continued
to spy until hisdefectionto Moscow withGuy Burgessin May
- He knewKim Philbyslightly and briefly worked in the same
office asJohn Cairncross. Codenamedwaise(‘‘orphan’’ in Ger-
man) and laterhomerby theNKVD, Maclean was run in London,
and then in Paris when he was transferred to the British embassy
there in September 1938, byKitty Harris. Maclean married Melinda
Marling in Paris in June 1940 and was later transferred to the British
embassy in Washington, D.C. Prolonged study of thevenonames-
sages sent from New York in 1944 finally incriminated Maclean in
1951 but he fled England before he could be confronted byMI5.He
finally emerged at a press conference in February 1956 held jointly