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John Cairncross (Lesmahagow, 25 luglio 1913 – Herefordshire, 8 ottobre 1995) è stato un agente segreto britannico al servizio dell'Unione Sovietica fin dagli anni trenta. Biografia
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 mag 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 ...
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14 mag 2018 · John Cairncross, la Dolce Vita del Quinto Uomo. Ricostruiti gli anni romani di una delle spie di Cambridge che passarono all’Unione Sovietica. MARCO ZATTERIN. 14 Maggio 2018. Modificato il: 14...
John Cairncross,linguist and spy: born 1913; twice married; died 8 October 1995. John Cairncross, the last survivor of the KGB's "Ring of Five", was a testament to misconceived idealism...
28 lug 2019 · Abstract. 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 ...
10 ott 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 was 82.
