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Spy: Twenty Years of Secret Service
twenty years in soviet secrets Gordon twenty years in soviet secrets Hawthorn FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Hawthorn Books, 1965. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light toning and spotting on page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 324064 Biography & Letters We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
250 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1964
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Gordon Lonsdale
1 bookKonon Trofimovich Molody (Russian: Ко́нон Трофи́мович Моло́дый; 1922 - 1970) was a Soviet intelligence officer, known in the West as Gordon Arnold Lonsdale. Posing as a Canadian businessman during the Cold War, he was a non-official (illegal) KGB intelligence agent and the mastermind of the Portland spy ring, which operated in Britain from 1953 until 1961.
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February 19, 2017
If you want to read a biography of which you can only believe what can be otherwise sourced, go right ahead. If the truth shall set you free, this one will put you in jail. Who wrote this thing? A committee of KGB hacks who congratulated themselves over a few vodkas how they stuck it to the Americans and the Brits? Lonsdale himself? And then, where is the charming individual he supposedly was? In this book Lonsdale comes across as a narcissistic arrogant UberSpy who can't do wrong, takes everything in stride and spits on his adversaries and their countries. His extreme contempt is reserved for the United States. Other than San Francisco, there is no city he likes. So which city does he compare Chicago or New York compare to? Moscow? Where have you been Gordon?
Anyway, somebody who lied as blatantly about a material fact, such as the role of the Cohens, cannot be trusted even when he speaks the truth.
Interestingly, when he rejected an extremely generous offer by the Brits for cooperation, including a life time pension, Lonsdale turned it down with extreme arrogance. One might understand his firm commitment to the "cause" (like the Cohens, Philby, and many others - btw. including myself), he did not know any better. But he was also looking forward to a glorious future in his beloved homeland. It did not turn out that way - he vanished in a land called Obscurity. An honest biography of this clearly fascinating man would be a great read. This one is nothing more than a textbook example of the Soviet propaganda machine doing its job, and not a good one for that matter.
Anyway, somebody who lied as blatantly about a material fact, such as the role of the Cohens, cannot be trusted even when he speaks the truth.
Interestingly, when he rejected an extremely generous offer by the Brits for cooperation, including a life time pension, Lonsdale turned it down with extreme arrogance. One might understand his firm commitment to the "cause" (like the Cohens, Philby, and many others - btw. including myself), he did not know any better. But he was also looking forward to a glorious future in his beloved homeland. It did not turn out that way - he vanished in a land called Obscurity. An honest biography of this clearly fascinating man would be a great read. This one is nothing more than a textbook example of the Soviet propaganda machine doing its job, and not a good one for that matter.
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