• The Maclean Mission (MACMIS) was a World War II British mission to Yugoslav partisans HQ and Marshal Tito organised by the Special Operations Executive...
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  • commanding the Maclean Mission there. It has been widely speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James Bond. Maclean was born...
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  • radio operator. It was a part of the wider, Maclean Mission, which arrived in September 1943. The mission left Brindisi airfield in a RAF Halifax bomber...
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    that he would not come back for a "bloody third time". As part of Maclean Mission (Macmis), in 1944, he led the Commandos in Yugoslavia to support Josip...
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    prompted the Allies to support the Partisans, resulting in the successful Maclean Mission, but Tito declined their offer to help and relied on his own forces...
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  • of the Maclean mission on 17 September 1943 placed the relations between Tito and the British on a more formal and senior level. Fitzroy Maclean was the...
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  • Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers...
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    return to duty he was recruited by Randolph Churchill to serve in the Maclean Mission to Yugoslavia, and, early in July, flew with Churchill from Bari, Italy...
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  • John Norman Maclean is a journalist and author who has written five books on fatal wildland fires and a memoir, Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and...
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  • Maclean (6 July 1858 – 24 February 1943) was an Anglican bishop in the later decades of the 19th century and first four of the 20th century. Maclean was...
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  • recently arrived Brigadier-General Fitzroy Maclean in Mrkonjic-Grad. The new commander, heading his own Maclean Mission (Macmis) felt that Deakin, after three...
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    Steven Glenwood MacLean FRCGS (born December 14, 1954) is a retired Canadian astronaut. He was the president of the Canadian Space Agency, from September...
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    he met Maclean in his London club.[citation needed] The SIS planned to interrogate Maclean on 28 May 1951. On 23 May, concerned that Maclean had not...
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  • Oliver "Ollie" Maclean (born 19 May 1998) is a New Zealand rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he won...
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    support to the Yugoslav National Army of Liberation". Following the Maclean Mission and in Tito's meeting with Winston Churchill in Naples in August 1943...
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    astronauts. Marc Garneau – mission specialist on STS-77, STS-97 Mamoru Mohri – mission specialist on STS-99 Steven MacLeanmission specialist on STS-115...
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    STS-115 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    robotic arm, the Canadarm. MacLean performed a spacewalk, becoming only the second Canadian, after Chris Hadfield to do so. The mission patch worn on the clothing...
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  • ad-hoc. Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, Allied representative at Yugoslav Partisans HQ at Vis, and the commander of the Maclean Mission, came up with a plan: The...
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  • wounded in Libya and hospitalised in Cairo. In 1943 he joined Fitzroy Maclean's mission in Yugoslavia (Macmis) whilst on secondment to the Special Operations...
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  • OSS liaison officer to Josip Tito's Yugoslav Partisans, as part of Maclean Mission (Macmis), he submitted an assessment of anti-Nazi resistance. He was...
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    Harry Aubrey de Vere Maclean, KCMG (15 June 1848 – 5 February 1920) was a Scottish soldier, and instructor to the Moroccan Army. Maclean was born on 15 June...
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  • Eastern Approaches (1949) is a memoir of the early career of Fitzroy Maclean. It is divided into three parts: his life as a junior diplomat in Moscow...
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  • torpedoed Italian submarine. In 1944 he was made second-in-command of the Maclean Mission to Yugoslavia. He was appointed commander of the parachute brigade...
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  • King. Maclean was born on the Isle of Skye in 1869. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Skye in 1892 and was appointed to the mission church...
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    John Alexander Maclean, OAM (born 27 May 1966) is an Australian triathlete, rower, and motivational speaker. A promising rugby league player in his youth...
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    destroying it in what Maclean describes as a "notoriously brutal pacification of Allahabad". Prayagwals too targeted and destroyed the "mission press and churches...
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  • Cambridge Five Soviet spies, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and Donald Maclean, who whilst studying at the University of Cambridge are courted by Soviet...
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  • movie called Sword of Gideon and the 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich. Jonas, George (January 7, 2006). "The Spielberg massacre". Maclean's. v t e v t e...
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    destroying it in what Maclean describes as a "notoriously brutal pacification of Allahabad". "Prayagwals targeted and destroyed the mission press and churches...
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    His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation...
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