in contact with any member of the group. The Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor rang Modin to check on this and found him angry that the false claims, changes and fraud on the British (and later US) public, had been made without his being consulted. Alan Rusbridger, who agreed with Roland Perry's assessment that Rothschild was the fifth man, also wrote in The Guardian: "Yuri Modin ... says in the English edition of his recent book that Cairncross was "the fifth man." Modin says he never used the term, which is not contained in the French edition of his book.' In an interview after publication of the book, Yuri Modin denied ever having named Rothschild as "any kind of Soviet agent". "Because he was in MI5 they learned things from him. This doesn't make him the fifth man, and he wasn't". Modin's own book's title clarifies the name of all five of the Cambridge spy group: My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller. Yuri Modin died in 2007 in Moscow. References Books Modin, Yuri, My Five Cambridge Friends, . Soviet spies KGB officers 1922 births 2007 deaths Spymasters