So what I've done for the next part of the episode is I've done, I've gone through each of them one by one with the most boring first, Donald McLean.

As an undergraduate, McLean openly proclaimed his left-wing views

and was recruited into the Soviet intelligence service, then known as the NKVD. However, he gained

entry to the civil service by claiming to have foresworn Marxism. Well, gentlemen's agreement.

I have no further questions. You are still gay, aren't you? Good, good. Charlie good. Meet me in the bushes.

You will still be able to do the Pata song so the High Commission's Gilbert and Sullivan every year, right?

Oh, absolutely. Modern Major General, he'll be doing it. In 1938, he was made third secretary at the Paris Embassy, where he kept the Soviets informed about Anglo-German diplomacy.

He then served in Washington, D.C., from 1944 to 1948, achieving promotion to first secretary.

Here he became Moscow's main source of information about US thermonuclear policy.

By the time he was appointed head of the American department in the foreign office,

McLean was widely suspected of being a spy.

Yeah, because he told everyone he met.

Right, exactly.

This is something that we'll get on to in a moment about McLean and Burgess, who were two

of the spies who worked together.

The biggest drinkers.

I was going to say, I thought that I know Burgess, that rings a bell that he was a huge

alcoholic, but I don't know if McLean was too.

This is an amazing quote from the Wikipedia.

McLean and Burgess were soon known as the hopeless drunks.

Like, this is in Soviet intelligence, due to the fact that they had a hard time keeping their secret occupations to themselves.

How drunk do you have to be that a Russian intelligence officer is calling you a drunk.

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