![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Modin also details his friendships with Burgess and Philby (who defected in 1963) during their Russian exile Maclean, however, avoided all socializing. He is surprisingly lavish in his praise of Cairncross, who is generally regarded as the least significant of the five, revealing that he was the first to inform Moscow of the Anglo-American atomic bomb project and provided crucial information about the vulnerability of the Germans' main battle tank. Modin, who is retired and lives in Moscow, was their KGB desk officer from 1944 to 1955, and arranged the 1951 defections of Maclean and Burgess. In his richly informative memoir, Modin describes the personal relations among the quintet-and subtly speculates about their homosexual interaction. The so-called Cambridge Five-Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross-comprised what may have been the most notorious spy ring in history. ![]()
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