List of Famous people with last name Cairncross

John Cairncross

First Name John

Last Name Cairncross

Born on July 25, 1913

Died on October 8, 1995 (aged 82)

Born in United Kingdom, Scotland

John Cairncross was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five. He is also notable as a translator, literary scholar and writer of non-fiction.

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