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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 .
Jul 21, 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. The son of an ironmonger and a schoolteacher, Cairncross graduated from.
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.
Oct 10, 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.
Alastair Galbraith as John Cairncross, the fifth member of the Cambridge spies, Cairncross was recruited by the Soviets to spy for them inside the Foreign Office, Bletchley Park and finally MI6.
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,...
John Cairncross spied for the USSR at Bletchley Park in World War Two. In 1979 it was claimed that he was the ‘Fifth man’ in the Cambridge Five spy ring. John Cairncross was born on 25 July 1913 in Lesmahagow, Scotland.
May 26, 2015 · John Cairncross was labelled the ‘Fifth Man’ by the media in a reference to the known ‘Cambridge Four’. Cairncross was accused of being a spy for the USSR along with Anthony Blunt , Guy Burgess , Donald McLean and Kim Philby .
John Cairncross 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. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five.
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?
