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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. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five. [1]
6. Mai 2024 · Role In: World War II. John Cairncross (born July 25, 1913, Lesmahagow, Scotland—died October 8, 1995, Herefordshire, England) 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 ...
The Last Cambridge Spy: John Cairncross. By Chris Smith. Throughout the 1930s, Soviet ‘illegals’ – resident agents operating in Britain – carefully selected, recruited and nurtured emerging talent at Britain’s ancient universities of Cambridge and, to a lesser extent, Oxford.
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...
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.
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?
