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John Cairncross. 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 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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John Cairncross. John Cairncross was known as a British literary scholar until he was later identified as a Soviet atomic spy. While a civil servant in the Foreign Office, he was recruited in 1937 by James Klugmann to become a Soviet spy.
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.
Watch a 1990 report on the claim that John Cairncross, a British intelligence officer, was the 'fifth man' in the Cambridge spy ring. Caircross denied the allegation in his autobiography, published after his death in 1997.
The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driv...
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25 de abr. de 2022 · John Cairncross, the fifth man of the Cambridge ‘Ring of Five’, was one of the most significant spies of the twentieth century. The KGB officer, Anatoliy Golitsyn, who defected to the West in 1961,...
