How to pronounce “cairncross” in English

Cairncross is probably less of a communist, actually, than Denis Healey, the later Labor minister who was in the Communist Party at Oxford.

Cairncross was less inclined to attend.

Cairncross was in a very lowly position, not really advancing at all in the foreign office, passing on lots of documents on German military espionage,

Cairncross wasn't given that clear immunity.

Alec Cairncross, quite a well known economist, chief advisor to the government.

But Cairncross himself was not in this category.

in Cairncross's handwriting. And so it's this document, these summaries of his views on appeasement that incriminated, if you like, Cairncross, and led to his resignation

And John Cairncross himself, for a brief moment until the FBI caught up with him, was a professor of romance languages at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

By the time that Cairncross reached Cambridge, he'd done quite a lot before.

And John Cairncross met these exiled Italians and was very moved by what they told him, which was he had to work in an organized, underground way in order

So the possibility of Cairncross being influenced by Blunt diminishes, in my view.

And I would put Cairncross in that camp.

And so Cairncross would annotate these reports coming back from Spain.

This is what Cairncross says the day after, or perhaps even shortly after the meeting with Deutsche, with Otto.

And what Cairncross picked up from Strang returning and from other people in the office and so on, he passed on.

And for Cairncross, it was the biggest political issue.

But for Cairncross, he was a mentor, a friend, an academic referee, somebody he went to with advice on literary matters and all-round support.

questions with Cairncross that really don't-- I mean, one of the problems with Cairncross is that he is-- because he's the fifth member of this ring,

And one of the interesting things about Cairncross is that he was in the Spanish section of the foreign office during the Spanish Civil War, and he

"I had long talks with Cairncross on French and English ideas, on French history.

Burgess knowing full well that Cairncross had been recruited, Cairncross unaware that Burgess was working for the Soviets-- again, naivete, really, on his part.

What I would say is that Cairncross was not an ideological communist.

The real problem began for Cairncross, in some ways, when the war was over and the Cold War began, because from his position-- and this is how it's presented

He had no idea, Cairncross-- he was a member of a ring, and he had no idea, throughout his time, throughout the period in which was passing material

The accounts you might have seen of John Cairncross, he appears as a sort of figure in various general accounts

I should say, the Cairncross family, when I describe them as highbrow, continues to be well known.

But it also is different trying to understand Cairncross, because in 1932, he was a young Glasgow University student, 19 years old, traveling for the first time

"I had long talks with Klugmann"-- this is Burgess talking about Cairncross.

And it was his summaries of these conversations-- Cairncross's summaries of these conversations that fell into the lap of Guy Burgess in a meeting they had--

And for that reason, Cairncross has been described as one of the early atom spies.

So want to ask why, but-- John Cairncross, quite a different spy from the one

You might have seen "The Imitation Game," which also has a portrait of John Cairncross, which I'll talk about a bit later.

And his next brother up, Andrew Cairncross, was an expert on Shakespeare.

When his brother was told about his espionage in 1964-- he was then Alec Cairncross, chief economic advisor to the government-- it was the greatest shock of his life.

Graham Greene turned out to be, for Cairncross, probably his greatest ever friendship.

Again, didn't really apply to Cairncross.

None of these really apply-- or I would say they apply in a very different way to John Cairncross.

Again, these don't really fit into the character of John Cairncross.

And so the lines between fact and fiction are blurred very much in the case of John Cairncross, making him more of a mystery figure.

His niece, Alec's daughter, Dame Frances Cairncross was, of course-- led the recent "Cairncross Review" into the future of journalism-- some of you

I came across the idea for the book after writing a book about Klugmann and meeting John Cairncross's widow.

which we might think is slightly odd by today's standards but significant at the time-- was to recommend Cairncross to the Traveler's Club, one of the gentlemen's clubs

And one of the interesting things about the Bletchley Park view of Cairncross is that they kind of

It was a bit of an intellectual sparring match-- for Cairncross, something that, in a way, seemed to appeal to him.

The prime minister wasn't told about it, although the prime minister was told about Cairncross's confession.

And the lean Cairncross is played

And I've been lucky that, in addition to the papers available, John Cairncross, later in life, married a woman much younger than himself,

Actually, his uncle, T.S. Cairncross, the brother of his father, was an early influence on the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

Taken together, these secondary portraits, the fictional accounts of John Cairncross, have led to misunderstanding and misrepresentation,