World Famous Spies & Spymasters by Vikas Khatri & Vikas

Author:Vikas Khatri & Vikas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World famous, spies, spymasters, espionage, military intelligence, countrymen
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
Published: 2011-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

He was involved in intelligence activities during and after the war. He was accepted into the KGB and trained as a spy. He took another name Gordon Arnold Lonsdale from a Canadian who had moved to Finland and died. He journeyed to Canada and the United States and then moved to England in 1955, posing as a businessman (rented jukebox equipment), while actually uncovering information about British underwater capabilities.

He developed a relationship with Harry Houghton, a former Naval petty chief, working in the Underwater Weapons Research Establishment in Portland, Dorset. Houghton’s girlfriend, Ethel Gee, worked in the records office of the same Underwater Weapons Research Establishment.

Gee was introduced to Lonsdale who claimed to be a naval attaché for the United States interested in naval research information that Ireland was withholding in defiance of a NATO agreement. Gee agreed to provide secrets, bringing home top secret documents for Houghton to photograph and then returning the next Monday before thy could be discovered missing. Houghton and Gee met Lonsdale once a month.

Polish Intelligence defector, Lt. Colonel Michal Golienewski exposed Lonsdale, Houghton and Gee (as well as George Blake), which subsequently led to their arrests (as well as the arrest of Morris and Leona Cohen). The trio was caught with information about the nuclear submarine Dreadnaught, pamphlets and photographs and undeveloped film of classified British documents (January 7, 1961). Lonsdale was convicted of conspiring to pass classified information and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. In 1964, Lonsdale was exchanged by the British for British agent Greville Wynne and travelled back to the Soviet Union where he was hailed as a national hero, writing a KGB sponsored book (with the help of Kim Philby) entitled Spy in 1965. He suffered a heart attack outside his apartment and died in 1970.

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Donald Maclean

British Diplomat who Became a Spy for the Soviet Union

Born in London, England in 1913, Donald Maclean was the son of Sir Donald Maclean, a noted attorney and Scottish politician. Sir Donald served as a member of Parliament and was knighted in 1917.

He was educated at Gresham and then moved on to Cambridge where he counted within his circle of friends, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby. He was influenced greatly by leftist teachings and believed early on in the cause of communism. He was introduced, while at Cambridge, to a Soviet controller who recruited him into the service of the Soviet Union. He was convinced to disassociate himself from active communist party membership and activity so as not to draw undue attention to himself.

He graduated from Cambridge in 1934 and immediately gained a position in the Foreign Service (despite having acknowledged his leftist leaning while in school). Through contacts loyal to his father, Maclean moved his way up though the ranks of the Foreign Service, attaining a level where he had access to classified information. He passed this information to his Soviet handler.

He was assigned to the Foreign Office Central Department, responsible for Germany, Belgium and France and was assigned to an office in Paris in 1938.

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