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In 1933, Liddell accompanied [[Frank Foley]], the Berlin station chief of [[MI6]], on a liaison visit to Nazi Germany.<ref>Francis Stonor Saunders, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n07/frances-stonorsaunders/stuck-on-the-flypaper Stuck on the Flypaper], ''London Review of Books'', 9 April 2015.</ref>
 
In 1933, Liddell accompanied [[Frank Foley]], the Berlin station chief of [[MI6]], on a liaison visit to Nazi Germany.<ref>Francis Stonor Saunders, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n07/frances-stonorsaunders/stuck-on-the-flypaper Stuck on the Flypaper], ''London Review of Books'', 9 April 2015.</ref>
  
John Costello's 1988 ''Mask of Treachery'' speculated that Liddell was the so-called Fifth Man, in a Soviet Spy Ring, later named by [[Christopher Andrew]] and [[Oleg Gordievsky]] as [[John Cairncross]].<ref>David Wise, Molehunt: How the Search for a Phantom Traitor Shattered the CIA, Avon Books, 1992, p.xx.
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John Costello's 1988 ''Mask of Treachery'' speculated that Liddell was the so-called Fifth Man, in a Soviet Spy Ring, later named by [[Christopher Andrew]] and [[Oleg Gordievsky]] as [[John Cairncross]].<ref>David Wise, Molehunt: How the Search for a Phantom Traitor Shattered the CIA, Avon Books, 1992, p.112.</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 22:51, 10 April 2015

Guy Liddell was a senior MI5 officer.

In 1933, Liddell accompanied Frank Foley, the Berlin station chief of MI6, on a liaison visit to Nazi Germany.[1]

John Costello's 1988 Mask of Treachery speculated that Liddell was the so-called Fifth Man, in a Soviet Spy Ring, later named by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky as John Cairncross.[2]

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Notes

  1. Francis Stonor Saunders, Stuck on the Flypaper, London Review of Books, 9 April 2015.
  2. David Wise, Molehunt: How the Search for a Phantom Traitor Shattered the CIA, Avon Books, 1992, p.112.