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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.
John Cairncross, the last survivor of the KGB's "Ring of Five", was a testament to misconceived idealism among Britain's intelligentsia in the 1930s and to the futility of MI5's hunt for Britain's ...
28 de jul. 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.
12 de jul. de 2021 · 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 e...
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...
John Cairncross fue un funcionario británico que trabajó como oficial de inteligencia y espía durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Como agente doble, les brindó a los soviéticos los códigos Lorenz e influyó de manera considerable en el devenir de la batalla de Kursk. Durante los años noventa se le identificó como el «quinto hombre» de la conocida red de espionaje de Cambridge, que ...
John Cairncross (ur. 25 lipca 1913, Lesmahagow, Wielka Brytania, zm. 8 października 1995) – brytyjski naukowiec, agent sowieckiego wywiadu INO NKWD (później KGB) o pseud. „Moliere”, zwerbowany podczas studiów w Trinity College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge w 1935 roku.
