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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, a member of the infamous Cambridge Ring of Five, leaked highly sensitive documents to the Soviet Union.
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.
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,...
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.
Between 1937 and 1951, John Cairncross and the other members of the Cambridge Ring of Five (Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt), all entered into the service of the British state and into highly sensitive positions. All the while they were secretly leaking thousands of documents to Moscow. But why did they do it?
