In 1951, Derek Walmsley’s house in Tatsfield, near Westerham, in Kent, was the scene of one of the most dramatic nights in the history of British espionage. It was here, in the dining room, that the spy Donald Maclean ate a supper to celebrate his 38th birthday, said goodbye to his wife and children, then left Britain, never to be seen here again. ‘Everybody still talks about it,’ says Derek, a retired electrical engineer, now aged 70. He says locals remember seeing a Morris Minor parked at the house, which they later found belonged to fellow spy Guy Burgess.

Share Recruited into the Soviet intelligence service while still at Cambridge, he entered the British Foreign Office on graduating and began leaking top-secret information in 1934. Three years later he made a crucial contact: a fellow Russian agent, Kitty Harris. Maclean – a striking man, blond and 6ft tall – would visit Harris in her Bayswater flat twice a week bringing papers for her to photograph, along with flowers and chocolates as presents. They soon became lovers and one evening he gave her with a locket on a thin gold chain.

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It was here, in the dining room,(now a living room) that the spy Donald Maclean ate a supper to celebrate his 38th birthday, said goodbye to his wife and children, then left Britain, never to be seen here again Maclean was so besotted with Kitty that when he was posted to the embassy in Paris in 1938, he persuaded his masters in Moscow to allow her to move there too. However, the affair was not to last.

Things fell apart when he met a pretty, seemingly reserved young American woman, Melinda Marling, in a cafe and fell for her immediately. They married in 1940 and spent the rest of the war being bombed out of one flat after another in London. Price £895,000 Location Tatsfield, near Westerham, Kent Bedrooms 4 Unique features Spy Donald Maclean’s former home, which he left on May 25, 1951, to defect to the Soviet Union; living room that was the dining room where Maclean ate his last meal with his family; acre and a half of grounds. Then they moved to Washington, where Maclean did his most valuable work as a secret agent, supplying the Soviets with secrets about US energy policy. There is no evidence that Melinda worked alongside Maclean as a spy but she certainly supported him in his double life.

In 1948, Maclean was moved to the British Embassy in Cairo, but the stress of duplicity was taking its toll by this time – he began drinking, brawling and even telling people about his life as a spy. Maclean was moved back to London, where he discovered that MI5 had broken his cover. So we arrive at that fateful evening when Maclean caught the train from the Foreign Office in London to have his birthday supper back in Kent. The house – which is for sale for £895,000 – has changed a good deal over the intervening years. In Maclean’s day it was a single, six-bedroom, smallish manor house, but in 1952 it was divided in two. Today, anyone fascinated by the house’s cloak-and-dagger past will not be disappointed. The dining room where the spy took his last supper is in Derek’s side of the property, although it is now a living room.

With four bedrooms, four bathrooms and three reception rooms, it was the garden that attracted Derek when he and his wife Maia bought the house in 2004. Donald Maclean with his wife Melinda Marling and his son Ronald in the 50s The story of the spy ring did not end with Maclean’s defection.

In 1953, Melinda and the children joined Maclean in Moscow. But the marriage failed and in 1976 she returned to New York, where she died in 2010. Guy Burgess drank himself to death in Moscow in 1963, aged 52, while Maclean, who made a new life for himself as a specialist on the economic policy of the West, died of a heart attack in Moscow in 1983, aged 69.

Live like a Russian spy: Suburban New Jersey home of married KGB agents who inspired The Americans TV show goes on market • Richard and Cynthia Murphy were exposed in 2010 as Russian spies Vladimir and Lydia Guryev • The Guryevs were among 11 sleeper agents who were sent to the US decades earlier by the KGB with instructions to blend into day-to-day life • The Murphys' story inspired the new FX drama The Americans, which follows the lives of Moscow operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings By Published: 05:54 GMT, 13 April 2013 Updated: 05:57 GMT, 13 April 2013. Stranger than fiction: The 2010 real-life spy drama inspired the new FX series The Americans, which follows two married undercover KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, played by Matthew Rhys and Kerri Russell Lawyers for the couple said the man was a stay-at-home father to two daughters and his wife worked for a New York accounting firm and made $135,000 a year. It was all an elaborate, illegal ruse straight out of the popular FX series The Americans, which was in fact inspired by the real-life spy saga. Like in the show, which follows married Russian sleeper agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, the Murphys - whose real names are Vladimir and Lydia Guryev - were part of a group of deep-cover Russian operatives who had been living in the U.S.

For years under the guise of leading seemingly normal lives. Guryevs and eight others – including the redheaded beauty Anna Chapman - were arrested in June 2010 after a decade-long counterintelligence probe that led to the biggest spy swap since the Cold War. Both pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country and were deported not long after their arrests. The Guryevs lived in New Jersey for more than 15 years and had two children: Kate, 11, and Lisa, 9, who were later taken away by FBI agents. Fixer-upper: Neighbors say Murphys' former residence has fallen into disrepair, with overgrown bushes and brown lawn in the front yard Prosecutors described a ring that used techniques both elaborate and seemingly out of a Cold War spy movie. The group meshed into American life while engaging in clandestine global travel with fake passports, using invisible ink and engaging in practices so sophisticated the government would not describe them in open court.

It was all toward the goal of infiltrating U.S. Policy circles and learning about U.S. Diplomacy and weapons information. Cynthia Murphy provided financial planning for venture capitalist Alan Patricof, a political fundraiser with extremely close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton. When the case broke, the secretary of state's spokesman issued a statement as an attempt to distance Mrs Clinton from the spy ring.

'There is no reason to believe that the Secretary of State was a special target of this spy ring,' her spokesman said. In 2009, authorities allege the Guryevs were asked to find out information from people involved in U.S. Politics and foreign policy about President Obama's impending trip to Russia and how he would negotiate with regards to the START nuclear arms treaty, Afghanistan and Iran's nuclear program. Authorities said they found $80,000 in crisp $100 bills in the Montclair home, which was paid for by the Russian government. The home has an unfinished basement and a $444,900 list price with Fast Track Real Estate Co., of nearby Waldwick.

Double-life: Richard Murphy (left) shown with suspect Christopher Metsos (right) was a mostly stay-at-home dad to two pre-teen children with his wife who worked for an accounting firm that had close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton The sale comes after a default judgment in a federal civil case that ordered the marshals to sell the property. Rta Xsara 1 9 Td Pdf To Word. Until recently, the dwelling was plastered with ‘No Trespassing’ signs and other court documents. Neighbors in Montclair told that they were relieved that the house finally has been put up for sale because over the past three years, it has become an eyesore. According to the real estate site Zillow.com, the average-looking house at 31 Marquette Road sold in September 2008 for $481,000.

The two-story residence has four bedrooms, one-and-a-half baths and was built in 1950. 'If there is an 'Ozzie and Harriet' road in Montclair, it's Marquette,' real estate agent Roberta Baldwin told NJ.com in 2010. 'You couldn't get more normal.

You couldn't find anything more quiet and demure.' In The Americans, which takes place in the 1980s, Philip Jennings, played by Matthew Rhys, and his wife and spy partner Elizabeth, portrayed by Kerri Russell, live in a similarly ordinary house in a quiet Washington DC suburb. Agent provocateur: One of the Moscow agents caught by the FBI in 2010 was the redhead stunner Anna Chapman, who since being sent back to Russia has turned into a TV personality As young KGB agents, Philip and Elizabeth were sent to the US in the 1960s with instructions to lead a normal life, build a family and blend in while fulfilling their mission to serve the Motherland. When they are not trying to steal state secrets or outsmart their FBI agent neighbor, the pair of sleuths moonlighting as travel agents are struggling to keep their marriage from falling apart.

Like the Guryevs, the Jenningses have two young children, which significantly complicates matters for them. In fact, several couples who were exposed as Russian spies in 2010 also had kids, some as young as one year old, who ended up being left behind when their parents were sent back to Russia. According to court documents filed in the case in 2010, like in the case of the fictional characters in The Americans, the Guryevs’ main objective was to blend in. Sony Ericsson Hcb 100 Manual. One message from their handlers back home read: ‘You were sent to USA for long-term service trip. Your education, bank accounts, car, house, etc – all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. To search and develop ties in policymaking circles and send intels [intelligence reports] to C[enter].’.