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  1. 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, referred to ‘a ring of five young men who were all known to one another and possibly University students together who had been recruited to the R.I.S. [Russian Intelligence Service] in the ...

  2. 13 de may. de 2019 · 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 Enigma and Tunny that influenced the outcome of the Battle of Kursk.

  3. John Cairncross (Lesmahagow, Schotland, 25 juli 1913 – Herefordshire, 8 oktober 1995) werkte tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog voor de Britse geheime dienst MI6. Hij speelde geheimen door aan de Sovjet-Unie. Uit het Mitrochin-archief blijkt dat hij het vijfde lid was van de Cambridge Five.

  4. John Cairncross (1913-1995) was a British literary scholar, civil servant, and Soviet atomic spy. In the 1990s, Cairncross was identified as the "fifth man" in the Cambridge spy ring, which consisted of four other Soviet double agents: Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Kim Philby. After joining the Foreign Service…

  5. References. John Cairncross, the youngest of four boys and four girls of Alexander Cairncross (1865–1947) and his wife, Elizabeth Wishart (1875–1958), was born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 25th July 1913. His father was an ironmonger and his mother, a schoolteacher. John Cairncross attended the village school before Hamilton Academy.

  6. 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...

  7. Following Philby's flight, British intelligence obtained confessions from Anthony Blunt (1907–1983, codename Johnson) and then John Cairncross (1913–1995, codename Liszt), who have come to be seen as the last two of a group of five. Their involvement was kept secret for many years: until 1979 for Blunt, and 1990 for Cairncross.