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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 .
- 8 October 1995 (aged 82), Herefordshire, England
World War II. John Cairncross (born July 25, 1913, Lesmahagow, Scotland—died October 8, 1995, Herefordshire, England) 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.
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29 mag 2019 · 29th May, 2019. The Last Cambridge Spy: John Cairncross. 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.
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, 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...
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 ...
