Word: trofimovich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...semi-documentary spy drama so set on realism that it takes one of Britain's most pedestrian episodes of peacetime espionage as a model, apparently to avoid drama, thrills or sex. The movie re-creates events leading to the 1961 conviction of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, born Konon Trofimovich Molody, who was recently swapped back to the Russians in exchange for Greville Wynne. Still in a British prison for their association with Lonsdale are pub-crawling Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton; his plump, middle-aged sweetheart Elizabeth Gee, who filched diagrams, manuals and Admiralty fleet orders; and a pair...
From the Soviet side, walking between two Russian plainclothesmen, came London Businessman Greville Wynne, 45, who last May had been sentenced to eight years as a spy. From the British side came Konon Trofimovich Molody, 40, alias Gordon Lonsdale, who had been sentenced in 1961 to 25 years on the same charge. Wynne and Molody merely glanced at each other. To the British agents, Wynne said, "Good morning. I'm glad to see you." Then, unable to contain himself, he flung his arms around them. The London Times, not sharing Wynne's elation, grumbled that Britain was getting...
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