HST 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Vasili Mitrokhin, Nocturnal Emission, Venona Project

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: History
• Course: HST 540
• Professor: Arne Kislenko

Document Summary

John cairncross: allegedly the (cid:862)fifth (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863, did(cid:374)"t really fit i(cid:374); gre(cid:449) up poor, did(cid:374)"t joi(cid:374) the apostles, 1942-1943: worked gchq (government communications headquarters, Leaks ~5000 documents over the course of his espionage. Influenced the battle of kursk: germans had planned an invasion, but because cairncross provided. British decrypts to the soviets, the germans were forced back: 1944: works mi6 counterintelligence, 1946: joins treasury, 1951: implicated in the maclean documents, 1952-1953: actually teaches in the us; the brits kept everything so low-key, the. States had no idea: harold (cid:862)ki(cid:373)(cid:863) phil(cid:271)y, graduates economics, bor(cid:374) & raised i(cid:374) audi ara(cid:271)ia (cid:894)father"s a diplo(cid:373)at, (cid:373)other"s a musli(cid:373)a sla(cid:448)e girl, fails foreign office exams, is a terrible student, becomes a journalist in austria. & spain here, becomes an anti-fascist: 1940-1942: joins the soe, courtesy of burgess, (cid:1005)94(cid:1006): he"s headi(cid:374)g mi6 i(cid:374) turkey, (cid:272)ourtesy of (cid:272)haris(cid:373)a, 1949: first secretary in washington; basically the top spy in north america; the.