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OBS/1/2/1/2/2
Title
Maclean Cuttings
Date(s)
- 1952 (Creation)
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1 file
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Newspaper cuttings relating to the complaint case of Mrs Melinda Maclean, wife of the British diplomat and KGB spy Donald Maclean, during the 1950s, which is linked to the establishment of the Press Council. Mrs Maclean claimed that she was quoted by the Daily Express newspaper from an interview she never gave.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Tristan Jones
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- Kemsley Newspapers Ltd ([1937-1959]); newspaper company (Subject)
- Berry; James Gomer (1883-1968); 1st Viscount Kemsley; newspaper proprietor (Subject)
- Jones; Tristan (1913-1990); managing director of The Observer (Subject)
- The Observer (1791-); Sunday newspaper (Subject)
- Press Council (1953-1991); self-regulatory organisation (Subject)
- Maclean; Donald Duart (1913-1983); diplomat and Soviet spy (Subject)
- Bonham Carter; Lady; Helen Violet (1887-1969); Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; politician (Subject)
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