John Cairncross (Alastair Galbraith) was known as a British literary scholar until he was later identified as a Soviet atomic spy. While a civil servant in the Foreign Office, he is recruited in ...

Marlene Dietrich is at her icy, imperious best as a sex worker who's recruited to work as a spy in the Austrian secret service during the First World War, and having earned redemption in the eyes ...

A 110-year-old lemon used by a German WW1 spy to send secret messages from Britain with invisible ink is going on display in MI5’s first ever public exhibition. The blackened and flattened fruit ...

It was shortly after joining the Foreign Office as a civil servant in 1936 that Cairncross was recruited as a spy. He was introduced to ‘Otto’, the first of several handlers, and they met ...

For the last decade he's taken tourists around NW3 on his monthly Hampstead Spy Walk, But recent releases have given him so much new material he's launching a second on Atomic spies.

He has also appeared in films such as Cowboys & Angels, Man About Dog, The Sweeney, and played the role of spy John Cairncross in The Imitation Game.

The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, who together made up the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century.

The National Archives has released declassified MI5 files, including the confession of a civil servant who worked in the Cabinet Office, Treasury and Foreign Office in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s – and ...

Yesterday the public got its first view of the last testimony of Anthony Blunt, art historian and Soviet spy, which had been kept under a lock and key in the British Library since he died, subject ...

The art expert was the fourth member to be uncovered of the notorious ‘ Cambridge Five’, a spy ring of British agents who passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the ...

Cairncross, the last of the spy ring to be publicly identified in the 1990s, admitted in a 1964 interview in the U.S. that he too had been recruited by Russian intelligence.

"She took it all very calmly and without surprise," it said. Cairncross, the last of the spy ring to be publicly identified in the 1990s, admitted in a 1964 interview in the U.S. that he too had been ...