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<text id=91TT2206>
<title>
Oct. 07, 1991: A "Fifth Man" Is Unmasked
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 35
COMMUNISTS
Mystery's End: A "Fifth Man" Is Unmasked At Last
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<p> Who was the "Fifth Man," the British spy for the Soviet Union
who worked with Kim 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 of France.
</p>
<p> 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."
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