The Disappearance of Two British Diplomats

Uncertainty was the common denominator of Canadian diplomats in Washington and London’s preliminary reports on Burgess and Maclean’s disappearance. If Maclean truly was a Soviet agent, then his espionage and defection to Moscow might infringe on Canadian national interests. He had been privy to “restricted data” and secret American-British-Canadian (ABC) discussions of uranium and nuclear subject matter (CDMB00004).