The Fifth Man exposes:
- The life of the Fifth Man, who became a super spy concurrently for three intelligence networks
- Thenlife of Yuri Modin, Russia’s finest control agent, who masterminded the defections to Moscow of Burgess and MacLean in 1951, and Philby in 1963. He ran the Ring of Five after the Second World War.
- How the Fifth Man applied his espionage skills to steal all major UK/US weapons developments in the Second World War, including biological warfare, the atomic bomb and radar.
- How the Fifth Man and not Klaus Fuchs in 1943 became the first Soviet spy to supply Moscow with intelligence on the plutonium route to an atomic bomb, which the Soviets finally detonated in 1949.
- How the Fifth Man gave the KGB key data from Bletchley Park, where the vital German Army’s military codes were broken, helping the Soviet Union defeat Germany in the most important battles of the Second World War.
- How the Fifth Man allowed the KGB to combat every major bugging counterespionage operation run against them for twenty years after the Second World War.
- How the Fifth Man created a brilliant scheme to spy on the major US/UK military and communications installations in Britain.
- How the Fifth Man, with the assistance of the rest of the Ring of Five and Modin, covered up his identity for sixty years.
