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of Commons until February 1974. He was an accomplished travel
writer, often visiting Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and died
in June 1996.MACLEAN, MELINDA.A student at the Sorbonne in 1939 from a
wealthy New York family, Melinda Marling marriedDonald Mac-
leanin Paris in June 1940 and accompanied him to London when the
British embassy was evacuated. Shortly before their marriage he told
her that he was a Soviet spy, and she became his willing coconspira-
tor. When hedefectedin May 1951, she participated in a charade at
their home in Tatsfield, Kent, which had been wired for sound by
MI5, to conceal the identity of their visitor,Guy Burgess(whom she
referred to as ‘‘Roger Styles,’’ for the benefit of the microphones).
Following his departure, Melinda moved with her three children to
Geneva, and from the end of July 1953 until early in September, ac-
companied by her children and her mother, she stayed in Cala Rat-
jada on Majorca. Almost as soon as they returned to Switzerland,
she unexpectedly took her children by train to Austria, where they
disappeared, only to emerge in Moscow. Between 1967 and 1969 she
had an affair withKim Philby, and she later moved to New York,
where she now lives.
Highly suspicious of her sudden departure to Moscow in Septem-
ber 1953, MI5 suspected she had received instructions from the Sovi-
ets while in Majorca, and theorized thatToma ́s Harris, the wartime
MI5 officer who had been close to Philby and then lived in Majorca,
might have acted as a conduit to her.
MAD DOG. Special Operations Executive(SOE) code name for a
plan to sabotage all rail and road links to the east in Spain in the
event of a German occupation, to be undertaken by H Section. SOE’s
Spanish branch was assembled inGibraltarin April 1941 for de-
ployment if the worst happened and occupied an office there to su-
pervise operations in Iberia and northwest Africa, headed by Peter
Quennell and Harry Morris, but a mission codenamedrelator, con-
sisting of John Burton, David Muirhead,Adrian Gallegos, andPeter
Kempwas organized for operations in Spain. H Section’s existence
remains a secret to this day and the name of its head, Major L. J. W.
Richardson, appears in none of the official histories. Nor, for that