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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The Fourth Man led to the Fifth, John Cairncross, and to lesser, unnumbered agents. |
 | | (In comparison, Burgess supplied 4,605, Maclean 4,593, and Cairncross 5,832.) He carried on providing low-grade information for five years after the war; his last major contribution was to act as liaison man for Burgess and Maclean's defection. |
 | | At the end of last year, he presided over a case in which Allason claimed authorship and copyright of the memoirs of the Fifth Man, John Cairncross, and therefore large amounts of royalties from the publisher, Random House. |
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