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 spy ring — comprised of Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross — operated in the UK from the 1930s to the 1950s, and have been well-documented on TV and ...

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, ...

It operated from the mid-1950s, training Kim Philby and John Cairncross, later revealed as notorious double agents, and hosting Oleg Gordievsky, who made the opposite journey from KGB bureau chief ...

The files confirm that Philby recruited Donald Maclean in 1934, and how Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and the fifth spy, John ...

This week marks 110 years since the birth of the man dubbed Britain’s first atomic spy: the secrets Cairncross passed to the Soviet Union are said to have included sensitive discussions about ...

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.

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

The group included Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and John Cairncross. Philby, often seen as the ringleader, also recruited Burgess and Maclean, later tipping them off in 1951 when ...

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