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Codename. Liszt. John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that influenced the Battle of Kursk.
6 de mai. de 2024 · John Cairncross (born July 25, 1913, Lesmahagow, Scotland—died October 8, 1995, Herefordshire, England) was a British literary scholar and civil servant who was identified in the 1990s as the “fifth man” in the notorious Cambridge spy ring that included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt.
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The most important agent talent spotted by Blunt was the Fifth Man, the Trinity undergraduate John Cairncross. Together with Philby, Burgess, Blunt and Maclean, he is remembered by the Center (Moscow KGB Headquarters) as one of the Magnificent Five, the ablest group of foreign agents in KGB history.
29th May, 2019 in Biography & Memoir, Military. The Last Cambridge Spy: John Cairncross. By Chris Smith. Throughout the 1930s, Soviet ‘illegals’ – resident agents operating in Britain – carefully selected, recruited and nurtured emerging talent at Britain’s ancient universities of Cambridge and, to a lesser extent, Oxford.
28 de nov. de 2014 · John Cairncross threatens to expose Turing’s sexuality if Turing reveals he’s a spy Ruling: Fiction In the film, Cairncross says he will tell the government Turing’s secret sexuality if ...
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10 de out. de 1995 · John Cairncross, the "Fifth Man" in a ring of British spies that gave Western secrets to the Soviet Union, died on Sunday at his home in the west of England. He was 82.
Learn about the life and role of John Cairncross, one of the most influential Soviet agents in the British state, who was born and raised in a mining town in Lanarkshire. Explore the research funded by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland that reveals his early years, family background, and political radicalism.
