Konon Trofimovich Molody (January 17, 1922 - September 9, 1970) was a Soviet intelligence officer, better known in the West as Gordon Arnold Lonsdale. He was an illegal resident spy during the Cold War and the mastermind of the Portland Spy Ring.
In London, on 7 January 1961, Special Branch officers led by Detective Superintendent George Gordon Smith arrested five people, all part of the "Portland Spy Ring".
One was a purported Canadian businessm...
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Konon Trofimovich Molody (January 17, 1922 - September 9, 1970) was a Soviet intelligence officer, better known in the West as Gordon Arnold Lonsdale. He was an illegal resident spy during the Cold War and the mastermind of the Portland Spy Ring.
In London, on 7 January 1961, Special Branch officers led by Detective Superintendent George Gordon Smith arrested five people, all part of the "Portland Spy Ring".
One was a purported Canadian businessman named Gordon Lonsdale who dealt in jukeboxes, bubble-gum and gambling machines. He often travelled to continental Europe, hosted many parties and had a number of lady friends.
Taken to Scotland Yard, Lonsdale told Smith he would not talk about anything, not even give his name or address. Western intelligence services, including MI5, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), had to resort to extensive enquiries to learn anything about him. All they could determine was that he was Russian, had a naval...
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