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<text id=90TT2810>
<title>
Oct. 29, 1990: World Notes:Espionage
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 64
World Notes
ESPIONAGE
And Now There Are Five
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<body>
<p> For 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.
</p>
<p> 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 he continued to
deny that he is the missing link. But British intelligence
sources back up Gordievsky's story.
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</body>
</article>
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