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...Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt during and after World War II? For four decades, espionage fans have had no shortage of suspects. Last year Soviet defector Oleg Gordievsky published a book, KGB: The Inside Story, in which he fingered a scholarly Cambridge graduate named John Cairncross as the mystery man. Cairncross admitted long ago that he spied for the Soviets, but at the level of a footsoldier and in an effort to aid a wartime ally. The British government believed him and in 1951 allowed him to leave England. Now 78, he lives quietly in the south...
Last week Cairncross came clean. "I was made one of the Five during the war," he told the London paper the Mail on Sunday. While working at Britain's code and cipher school, he provided the Soviets with decoded messages that helped them defeat the Germans at Kursk in 1943. Later in the war, while serving in MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service, he told the Soviets about Allied plans for the future of Yugoslavia. Reflecting on his wartime misdeeds, he says, "I hope this will finally put an end to the 'Fifth Man' mystery...
...many years, John Cairncross, 76, has lived quietly in Italy and France. But his retirement was rudely interrupted last week when he was named the mysterious "fifth man" in Britain's most famous spy case...
...Cairncross's accuser is Oleg Gordievsky, who defected from the Soviet KGB in 1985 and is co-author of the new book KGB: The Inside Story. In addition to revealing in a TIME excerpt last week that President Franklin Roosevelt's key aide, Harry Hopkins, was an unwitting accomplice of the KGB, Gordievsky contends that Cairncross was a member of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt. Though Cairncross was ousted from a sensitive government post in 1951 for allegedly passing documents to the Soviets, his spy connection was never proved. Last week...
...industry. The sheer challenge might force Britain to break out of the debilitating cycle of low productivity, low investment and high wage demands that has led to the nation's mounting trade deficit (an estimated $6.2 billion for 1975). But as the Guardian's Economic Columnist Frances Cairncross has pointed out, "If you give a cold shower to a man with a weak heart, sometimes he dies." Complicating the argument is a recent report by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, which says that the effect of EEC membership on Britain's trade deficit over...