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  John Cairncross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Cairncross (July 25, 1913 – October 8, 1995) was a British intelligence officer during World War II who, along with four other men (Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt) passed secrets to the Soviet Union during the war.
Cairncross was educated at Glasgow University and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied modern languages.
He was the brother of economist Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross (Alec Cairncross) and the uncle of journalist Frances Cairncross.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cairncross   (331 words)

  
 polygamypage.info Book Review
Cairncross says of this "As an exercise in wishful thinking, tortuous reasoning and soliciting of the text, he is a model of truly mathematical rigour".
Cairncross is that "Like all his predecessors, he does not realise that he is part of a long tradition", even quoting Milton without appreciating that Milton supported him.
Cairncross is excessively liberal in his definition of what counts as "Christian" and so includes far too much, and in his appendix shows a fundamental misunderstanding both of the Bible and its doctrines related to the roles of men and women.
www.btinternet.com /~familyman/pcairncross.htm   (3983 words)

  
 Guardian | Secrets and spies
John Cairncross, with whom I lived for over 10 years and whose version of history I helped bring to press after his death in 1995, was, allegedly, this sinister figure.
The travesty of John's portrayal, however, is typical of the series as a whole, and serves to underline the fact that almost 60 years after the second world war and 13 years after the end of the cold war, we are no nearer to finding out what really motivated the Cambridge spies.
John came to the conclusion that Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby had been a different and more cynical kettle of fish than the ranks of communists and anti-fascists at Cambridge during the turbulent times of post- first world war chaos.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4669065-103680,00.html   (1590 words)

  
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CAIRNCROSS One striking lesson from Prue Leith's experience is that a few capable and experienced professionals, who really understand an operation, can make all the difference to the way it works.
CAIRNCROSS But America is not the only country in which people contribute directly to the cost of their health care.
CAIRNCROSS State-owned hospitals and schools know that their paymasters are civil servants and politicians, not their patients or pupils.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/analysis/transcripts/going.txt   (4627 words)

  
 Copy of extract from the ‘Weekly Scotsman’, 11th April 1931
Cairncross is the name of lands in Glenesk in Angus, which anciently belonged to the lay abbots of the Celtic Church in Brechin and Glenesk.
Andre of Wyntoun relates in his reliable history that Cairncross was one of the gentlemen of Angus who fought under Sir Walter Ogilvy, Sheriff of Angus in 1392, in the so-called Raid of Angus, and was slain along with the sheriff and others.
John Cairncross of Balmashanner gives a charter of his lands to his son and heir, James and his wife, Egidia, dated Oct 14, in Dundee, John Cairncross, burgess of Dundee, witness.
home.freeuk.net /iancx/App-3.html   (655 words)

  
 Summary of the Cullen Family History
Anne's father, John Cullen born 1808, was a member of the Brant Broughton Cullen family in Lincolnshire, a branch descended from the main line of Cullens in Upton, Nottinghamshire.
Captain John Cullen is said to be descended from Cullen, Prince of Cumberland and King of Scotland elected in the tenth year of the tenth century.
John F. Atterton's work was carefully researched and his claim that the families are related can not be dismissed so easily.
www.lrbcg.com /jtcullen/CullBrf.htm   (2653 words)

  
 John Cairncross
John Cairncross was born in Scotland in 1913.
Cairncross was one of Arthur's original suspects in 1951, after papers containing Treasury information were found in Burgess' flat after the defection.
Evelyn McBarnet recognized the handwriting as that of John Cairncross.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SScairncross.htm   (524 words)

  
 Untitled
Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross met while studying at Cambridge University and caught the attention of Prof.
John Cairncross was based there, his high intellect gained him entry to the top secret plans and knowledge of the Germans Eastern Front Defences along with troop movements that had been decoded from transmissions using the Enigma device, this alone probably enabled the Russians to stop the Germans and begin the long push back.
Out of all the five, it is John Cairncross who is considered to be the most successful and did the most damage, including giving including Britains nuclear capabilities and troop deployment plans in a war.
www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/11784/59915   (529 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cairncross, the last to be discovered also suffered greatly, both socially and economically.
Supposedly, when Otto John, an American agent, supplied accurate information about a plot to kill Hitler that was to be followed by a peace treaty Philby suppressed it.
But without Britain's knowledge, Philby and Cairncross were relaying all the important intelligence to their KGB contacts.
www.duke.edu /web/hst20s-04/Zulandt.txt   (3272 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Special Report | 1999 | 09/99 | Britain betrayed | The Cambridge spy ring
John Cairncross was spotted by Anthony Blunt at Cambridge and introduced to Guy Burgess.
Cairncross' information enabled Soviet spies to change their codes as British Intelligence were about to crack them.
John Cairncross was revealed to be the "fifth man" in the Cambridge spy ring
newsimg.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/09/99/britain_betrayed/444058.stm   (613 words)

  
 NY Times Shuns "Communism"
Four months later, when John Chamberlain, an even better known journalist and author, passed away, the Times obituary contained not a hint that he was an outspoken anti-communist.
Cairncross, an admitted Soviet spy, had worked in the British Foreign Office, Treasury and the Prime Minister's private office.
A Soviet source was quoted as saying Cairncross provided information about nuclear weapons, but this was set against the spy's claim that he had passed no information harmful to Britain's interests and that he was not a traitor.
www.aim.org /publications/weekly_column/1996/01/nytimes.htm   (613 words)

  
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Cairncross launches into a very scholarly, thoroughly researched, exposition on Christian polygamy, as can be attested to by the Bibliography of more than 90 references, some dating back as far as the 16th century.
Cairncross is a historian, merely laying out the (albeit fascinating) account of a suprisingly large number of arguments made in favor of, and even attempts to introduce, polygamy, in the Protestant world, some by well known theologians or authors.
(pg.214) Cairncross sums up "for a long time to come, there will still be an imbalance between the number of men and women able or willing to marry.
www.etext.org /Religious.Texts/Polyamory/ReformationPolygny.txt   (1390 words)

  
 John Cairncross born circa 1683 in Scotland.
She was born January 24, 1834 in Coldingham, Berwick, Scotland, and died April 25, 1896 in Flemington, Victoria, Australia, and buried April 27, 1896, Melbourne General Cemetery.
She married Thomas John Jones 13.12.1952 in Ascot Vale, Victoria.
John visited England and Scotland in 1850 returning to Cape Town, 9 Jan l851 on the "Hannah".
home.freeuk.net /iancx/F-T-38.html   (1316 words)

  
 HART'S WAR - Espionage Profiles
John Cairncross, Foreign Office secretary, private secretary to Lord Hankey, Secretary for Security, sometimes referred to as "The Fifth Man"
As one reads about them, there is an irresistible temptation to cast actors to play their roles in an epic film.
John Philby was at various times a British spy, a diplomat, and an adviser to King Saud.
www.courttv.com /archive/harts_war/cambridge/cambridge_2.html   (1266 words)

  
 The Spy Who Wrote Me   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Burns Library has added to its Graham Greene Archive correspondence between the novelist and John Cairncross, believed by some to be the "fifth man" of the notorious Burgess-Maclean-Philby-Blunt British spy ring.
His longstanding friendship with Kim Philby, a colleague in British intelligence during the war who was revealed to be a central figure in a Russian spy ring, is reflected in decades' worth of correspondence in the Burns Library.
So now is Greene's friendship with Cairncross, a British civil servant who admitted in his autobiography that he had passed secrets to the Soviets.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v8/o14/greene.html   (316 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Listen Again
Former ambassador to the UN and NATO Sir John Weston and former UN Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros Ghali on the allegations swirling around the UN's oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.
John Cairncross was supposedly the "fifth man" in the Cambridge spy ring.
John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/listenagain/zsaturday_20050205.shtml   (690 words)

  
 CORIOLANUS (1963)
John Neville looked straight at me — I had been cast as First Citizen (a good part which opened act one scene one and most recently played by Albert Finney in the Olivier Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon).
There was a moment of bafflement until it was explained that I was Tullus Aufidius — the ryhthmic similarity with “First Citizen” had been mis-interpreted by my agent over the phone.
For, given the chance as they were in the last act, John Neville, Leo McKern, Ian McKellen and Dorothy Reynolds delivered the poetry in a manner worthy of its direction.
www.mckellen.com /stage/00023.htm   (504 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
He claimed he was the author of a book published under the name of John Cairncross, the "fifth man" in the Cambridge spy ring.
Mr Cairncross gave Moscow intelligence from the government code and cypher school, the forerunner of GCHQ, about the German military build-up before the Battle of Kursk in 1943, a turning point in the second world war.
Gayle Cairncross, Mr Cairncross's widow, said: "I am just relieved this ordeal is over and I now want to get on with my with my life".
www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4278759,00.html   (669 words)

  
 Web site altered to support copyright lies of former MP | OUT-LAW.COM
In an English High Court decision, a former MP has lost his claim to the copyright in the 1997 autobiography of the late John Cairncross, believed to be the fifth member of the Cambridge spy ring recruited by the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Allason argued that he ghost-wrote the book for John Cairncross, and/or that Cairncross wrote the book and had orally assigned the British rights in the book to him to evade the publishing restrictions placed on former Foreign Office employees.
The court noted that Allason’s two arguments were inconsistent with each other: “In one John Cairncross was not an author, while in the second he was.” Pointing to evidence from Random House of manuscripts and material written by Cairncross himself, the court decided that the ghost writing argument “was quite hopeless.”
www.out-law.com /page-2120   (374 words)

  
 Kim_Philby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Ambala, India, Philby was the son of St.
John Philby, the British diplomat, explorer, author, and Arabist who converted to Islam and served as an adviser to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia.
He was nicknamed after the protagonist in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim, about a young Indian boy who spies for the British in occupied India in the 19th century.
www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=Kim_Philby   (1796 words)

  
 After Polygamy Was Made A Sin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cairncross presents summaries of what he considered to be the most important
Cairncross is that "Like all his predecessors, he does not realise that he is part of a long
Cairncross is excessively liberal in his definition of what counts as "Christian" and so
www.polygamy.com /Reviews/After-Polygamy-Was-Made-A-Sin.htm   (4292 words)

  
 Kim Philby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (January 1, 1912 - May 11, 1988) spied for the Soviet Union while an employee of British intelligence.
Philby belonged to the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross.
Born in Ambala, India, Philby was the son of Harry St. John Philby, the British diplomat, explorer, author, and Arabist who converted to Islam and who served at one time as an adviser to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/k/ki/kim_philby.html   (1200 words)

  
 Trout Fly Fishing, An Expert Approach - reviewed by Terry Lawton
Although this book is yet another of a similar type - large format, multiple authors and covering all aspects of trout fishing - this one is very much better than the others.
Martin Cairncross has fished for England and has developed his own fly patterns and these flies and his fishing techniques are based on experience gained in New Zealand and the USA.
John Dawson has won many championships and captained the English team at international level as well as having fished extensively in Europe, North America and New Zealand.
www.fishandfly.co.uk /bookrevs/expert.html   (628 words)

  
 Cairncross on Keynes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Alec Cairncross on John Maynard Keynes, from The Economist of April 20-26, 1996 (pp.
When I worked at The Economist for six months in 1946, one of my first assignments was to draft an obituary of Keynes.
Then I can begin serious writing." There was talk then of Bagehot, partly because I had quoted the Victorian as saying: "John Bull can stand many things, but he can't stand 2%," and Keynes wanted to know the source.
econ161.berkeley.edu /Economists/cairncrossonkeynes.html   (1077 words)

  
 eBay - Book: Cid Cinna (ISBN: 0140443126)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cid Cinna by John Cairncross, Pierre Corneille (1976)
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 TRAYNOR's Web Page
Shapland Egan, John Cairncross, Hugh Elliot, William Carroll, Ephraim Eustace, Charles Castlereagh, Visct.
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 Reviews by author R
Andromache, translated by John Cairncross (1667, translation 1967)
Berenice, translated by John Cairncross (1670, translation 1967)
Iphigenia, translated by John Cairncross (1674, translation 1963)
www.geocities.com /athens/academy/6422/byauthorr.html   (130 words)

  
 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.
www.newyorker.com /critics/books?020114crbo_books   (2910 words)

  
 Search Results for spy - Encyclopædia Britannica
Among the best examples of the genre are works by John Buchan, Len Deighton, John le Carré, and Sapper (H. Cyril McNeile).
Cairncross, John Britannica Book of the Year 1996
British government official who was identified in 1991 as the long-sought "fifth man" in the notorious Soviet spy ring that included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald MacLean, and Anthony Blunt (b.
www.britannica.com /search?query=spy&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (484 words)

  
 Joannis Miltoni Angli De doctrina Christiana
compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone, by John Milton; translated from the original by Charles R. Sumner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, by J. Smith for C. Knight, 1825).
compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone, by John Milton; translated from the original by Charles R. Sumner (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Co. - Richardson and Lord - Charles Ewer - Crocker and Brewster - Timothy Bedlington - R. and C. Williams, 1825).
Cairncross discusses Milton's sympathies with polygamy on pp.
home.comcast.net /~walkswithastick/DeDoctrina.html   (8076 words)

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