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- WORLD, Page 64World NotesESPIONAGEAnd Now There Are Five
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- 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.
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- 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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