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. He emerged from his ...

Years ago, Willy Russell wrote a musical called John, Paul, George, Ringo…. & Bert. Among the five Cambridge spies, John Cairncross is very much the ‘& Bert’ figure. There have been books, articles, ...

Early in The Crown's third season, there's a reference to the "Cambridge" spy ring, also known as the Cambridge Five. Since little explanation or context is given on screen, there's a good chance ...

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 Union who attended Cambridge University and gained ...

It was a moment of sheer terror. For more than a decade, John Cairncross had been a loyal, discreet and entirely undetected servant of communist Moscow. Yet now ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied for the Soviet ...

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 the ...

Early in The Crown's third season, there's a reference to the "Cambridge" spy ring, also known as the Cambridge Five. Since little explanation or context is given on screen, there's a good chance ...