The recent confession by John Cairncross, a former intelligence officer and later a British treasury official, apparently resolves a puzzle that has confounded Western espionage experts for more ...

While studying at Cambridge University in the 1930s, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, John Cairncross and Anthony Blunt were recruited as spies by the Soviet Union. Over the course of the ...

John Cairncross III, 75, of Salisbury, formerly of Carlsbad, CA, passed away Saturday, April 30, at Tidal Health Peninsula Regional Hospital.

There have been books, articles, films and plays galore about Philby, Maclean, Burgess and Blunt, but nobody seems to know or care about the 'Fifth Man', John Cairncross ...

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.

The widow of a Scot who leaked secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II say MI5 documents show he was not part of a spy ring. John Cairncross was alleged to have been the fifth member of ...