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13 de sept. de 1999 · John Cairncross was spotted by Anthony Blunt at Cambridge and introduced to Guy Burgess. He was recruited to the Communist party in 1937 and worked in the Foreign Office alongside Donald Maclean. While working at the Treasury he was able to leak details about the military decoding centre, Bletchley Park.
In 1990, John Cairncross was identified as the ‘fifth man’ of the Cambridge Ring of Five. Historians have provided various motivations for Cairncross’ decision to spy for the Soviet Union. Yet, after three decades, he remains poorly understood. Proposed espionage motives have ranged from ideo-logical Communism, an impoverished upbringing ...
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27 de sept. de 2016 · In 1981, however, Margaret Thatcher revealed that another man, John Cairncross, had been the fifth member of the Cambridge spy ring, with the ring’s actual number likely being much higher than five. Mann was recruited in 1951 to head the NBS Radioactivity Section. He became a U.S. citizen in 1959, and his work at NBS included the development ...
Due to retirement and with a heavy heart the decision has been taken to close the shop and website from the 29th July 2023 when Cairncross of Perth will cease to trade. Mrs Rennie and all the staff send to all our very best wishes, we will miss you all.
1 de sept. de 2022 · The first biography of John Cairncross, the fifth member of the Cambridge spy ring and colleague of Alan Turing John Cairncross was among the most damaging spies of the twentieth century. A member of the infamous Cambridge Ring of Five, he leaked highly sensitive documents from Bletchley Park, MI6 and the Treasury to the Soviet Union – including the first atomic secrets and raw decrypts from ...
One of the most controversial features of the The Imitation Game involves the clumsy subplot featuring the espionage carried out at Bletchley Park by the Soviet spy, John Cairncross, one of the codebreakers there. The movie shows Cairncross as one of the key members of Turing's team - a gross inaccuracy, as Turing never worked with Cairncross and probably was unaware of his existence.
