According to the report by the MI5 agent watching him, John Cairncross appeared 'tail conscious' as he boarded a bus in London 's Trafalgar Square to his home in Lansdowne Crescent.

A retired British civil servant living in France has admitted he was the mysterious ”Fifth Man” in the most famous spy network operated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The recent ...

John Cairncross Considered the first atomic spy, John Cairncross was eventually identified as one of the Cambridge Five, a group of upper-middle class young men who had met at Cambridge University ...

The spy plot on season three of The Crown is very real. Meet those known as the Cambridge Five. ... He confessed in 1964 and also named other spies, including John Cairncross, ...

The History Press, £20 Review by Trevor Royle On one level the title of Chris Smith’s ground-breaking biography says it all. His subject is John Cairncross, a self-confessed spy for the Soviet ...

His fellow spy, the impossibly louche Guy Burgess, told their shared Soviet handler that Cairncross ‘speaks with a strong Scottish accent and cannot be called a gentleman’, though he was ...

Blunt confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviet Union as part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring during World War II, ... who authored a biography of Cambridge Five spy John Cairncross, ...