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John Cairncross (* 25. Juli 1913 in Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, Schottland; † 8. Oktober 1995 in Herefordshire, England) war ein britischer Geheimagent während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, der zusammen mit vier anderen, die unter dem Namen Cambridge Five bekannt wurden, für die Sowjetunion spionierte.
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. Mai 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.
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13. Mai 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...
20. Sept. 2017 · Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt und John Cairncross gehörten zur Elite des Vereinigten Königreichs, ihr Verrat ist ein immer noch schwelendes Trauma der britischen...
25. Apr. 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. Okt. 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...
