• 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...
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    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...
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  • the spy John Cairncross and father of journalist Frances Cairncross and public health engineer and epidemiologist Sandy Cairncross. Cairncross was born...
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    Sweeney. In 2014 he starred alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, as the spy John Cairncross, in The Imitation Game. Leech was voted sexiest Irish male in 2005...
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  • Blunt was the fourth member of the group to be discovered; the fifth, John Cairncross, was yet to be revealed. The height of Blunt's espionage activity was...
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  • John Cairncross (1913–1995), Soviet spy from Glasgow Robert Cairncross (died 1544), Scottish bishop of Edinburgh in the 16th century Sandy Cairncross...
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    Burgess (1911–1963) Anthony Blunt (1907–1983) James Klugmann (1912–1977) John Cairncross (1913–1995) GRO Register of Births: SEP 1913 1a 899 Marylebone – Donald...
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    Anne's College in 1993. Cairncross married the journalist Hamish McRae in 1971; the couple have two daughters. Her uncle John Cairncross was an intelligence...
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  • Germany in 1939, Turing joins the cryptography team of Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, Peter Hilton, Keith Furman, and Charles Richards in Bletchley Park...
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    Christopher John Boyce (born February 16, 1953) is a former American defense industry employee who alleged CIA involvement in the Whitlam dismissal in...
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    fascism by working for the Soviets. A few years later another Apostle, John Cairncross, was recruited by Burgess and Blunt, to complete the spy ring often...
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  • Cold War 1947 – 1991 Aldrich Ames  American  KGB  CIA (1957-1994)   John Cairncross "Liszt"  Scottish  MGB  Cambridge Five  MI5 (1941-1944)  GC&CS (1942-1943)...
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  • Cairncross." Second, Headline changed lines on page 104, now saying that John Cairncross was the Fifth Man: 'At the close of 1944, the name of John Cairncross...
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    (cryptonym 'Hicks'), Anthony Blunt (cryptonyms 'Tony', 'Johnson'), and John Cairncross (cryptonym 'Liszt'). There were many others that were accused of being...
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    University Press: Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, written by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev; Vassiliev's notebooks...
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  • The Spectator. London. 11 October 1940. Retrieved 21 February 2015. Pett, John (dir). "The World at War", episode 17. Thames Television, 1973/74 Rees, Jenny...
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  • make no mention of Rothschild as a Soviet agent and instead identify John Cairncross as the Fifth Man. Former KGB controller Yuri Modin denied ever having...
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    radio traffic. The Soviets, however, through an agent at Bletchley, John Cairncross, knew that Britain had broken Enigma. The "Lucy" ring was initially...
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    sent a ready agent, too (Klaus Fuchs)." Another important source was John Cairncross. Pavel Fitin reported to Vsevolod Merkulov: "Valuable information on...
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  • spy ring included Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross, although Michael Straight was also involved with the Soviet spy ring...
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    scandal (Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross), suspected homosexuality was also a common cause for being targeted...
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    sent a ready agent, too [Klaus Fuchs]. Another important source was John Cairncross. Fitin reported to Merkulov: Valuable information on Enormoz is coming...
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    regularly attended a 6:30 a.m. daily Mass for over a decade. Opus Dei member C. John McCloskey said he also occasionally attended the daily noontime Mass at the...
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  • returned to Cambridge. Soviet spies Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess and John Cairncross, three of the Cambridge Five, and Michael Straight were all members...
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    Cambridge Five Anthony Blunt Guy Burgess John Cairncross Donald Maclean Kim Philby Portland spy ring Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Ethel Gee Harry Houghton...
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    Cambridge Five Anthony Blunt Guy Burgess John Cairncross Donald Maclean Kim Philby Portland spy ring Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Ethel Gee Harry Houghton...
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    communications security (COMSEC). In the books of such spy novelists as Ian Fleming, John le Carré and Tom Clancy, characters frequently engage in tradecraft, e.g...
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    Cambridge Five Anthony Blunt Guy Burgess John Cairncross Donald Maclean Kim Philby Portland spy ring Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Ethel Gee Harry Houghton...
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  • intelligence officer. Alastair Galbraith as John Cairncross, the fifth member of the Cambridge spies, Cairncross was recruited by the Soviets to spy for them...
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