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Konon Trofimovich Molody (Russian: Ко́нон Трофи́мович Моло́дый; 17 January 1922 – 9 September 1970) was a Soviet intelligence officer, known in the West as Gordon Arnold Lonsdale.
Konon Molody, who used the cover name Gordon Lonsdale, in 1961. The Portland spy ring was an espionage group active in the UK between 1953 and 1961. It comprised five people who obtained classified research documents from the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE) on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and passed them to the Soviet Union .
Aug 14, 1998 · TROFIM MOLODIY, son of the Soviet spy Konon Molodiy who passed himself off in Britain as Gordon Lonsdale and stole submarine secrets in the 1950s, was sick and tired of reading "rubbish" by...
Konon Molody was an ordinary Soviet intelligence agent posted to Britain. Unexpectedly for the KGB and himself, he became one of the richest people in the United Kingdom.
- Boris Egorov
When this all came to light in 1960, thanks to a Polish defector, their contact was found to be one Gordon Lonsdale, ostensibly a small-scale Canadian businessman whose real name was Konon Molody,...
Lonsdale was identified as an illegal Russian, Konon Molody, and sentenced to 25 years. He served less than four years and was released to the Russians in 1966 in exchange for Greville Wynne an...
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Sep 24, 2019 · Their disruption marked one of the Service’s most significant post-war counter espionage successes. This batch of files focuses on the three Russian illegals. Gordon Lonsdale – whose real...
