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The Fifth Man: Atomic Spy
After graduating from Cambridge, John Cairncross -- a brilliant man from a working class background -- went to work for the British Foreign Office. During the war, he drove carloads of documents from his office in Bletchley Park to the Soviet Embassy in London -- including information on the US and British atomic weapons programs. Cairncross (codename: Moliere) came under suspicion after his fellow spies Burgess and Maclean defected in 1951, but it wasn't until 1967 that he made a full confession in exchange for immunity. In his later life, he travelled around the world for the UN, using this passport. Cairncorss died in Southern France in 1995. |