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 ...

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, ...

Cairncross, a civil servant turned intelligence officer who passed more than 5000 documents to the Soviet forces during World War II, was outed as The Fifth Man in the notorious Cambridge spy ring.

An attempt by the former Tory MP Rupert Allason to challenge a High Court ruling that described him as "a profoundly dishonest man" was described as "hopeless" yesterday.

British double-agent Guy Burgess was one member of the Cambridge Five ring of spies. Wikimedia Commons Like any good spy story, it started with cocktails. Stanley Weiss first encountered Guy ...