A TALE OF TWO SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400090010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 26, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

~ -` CPYRGHT
On the rain-swept Ileerstrasse,
f:reville Wynne, in the car at left,
heads back home. Below, the man
whose freedom bought his,
Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, alias
Conan Trofrrnovich Molody.
BACK TO WORK
Ii Into the shadows or Soviet security slipped Lonsdale-
Mblody. He is fully expected to he put to work gainfully
by his espionage apparatus. It won't mean that he goes
back into the field again, he has been identified. But it
tool: years to expose him.
He. wasn't as big a practitioner of deceit as Col. Rudolf I I FOIAb3k
Ivanovich Abel, exchanged 1,; months ago at another East-
West crossing for our U-2 pilot-Capt. Francis Gary Powers.
But Lonsdale-Molody came within1 a' couple of years of
matching Abel. in short, he was very Important.
By Soviet standards, and almost certainly by West-
ern espionage measurements, Lonsdale-Molody was a gen-
tleman. So was Abel. They carried out their assignments
to the letter. Neither of them ever divulged anything of
value to their captors.'
for his avocation, because he-made-adinissions In his trial. ~ -?
It
th
CIA th
was
e
at masterminded the ring that used
Wynne. The agency would either stay' mum or deny any
such declaration. Other sources with access to its assess-
ments and findings can say, and have said, what a stun-
ning espionage exploit It was.
Caught, some people suffered, among them Wynne.
A key Soviet contact, Oleg Penkovsky, was executed. In
the several years during ,which the ring conducted its open.'.
and family connections that were impeccable. They were,
(`SRI Cs:4tJi9Ei1 he was found net.
A SHAKEN SOVIET
CPYRGHT
By Seymour Freidin
Executive Editor, Foreign News
At a bleak place called Heerstrasse, where British
sector juts into the Communist zone, a finger of Berlin's
two little knots of men shivered in the bitter pre-dawn cold.
Spokesmen on each side murmured official words of
acceptance. Then they nodded. A skinny Englishman,
his university necktie loosely knotted, hurried to his coun-
trymen. For the briefest of moments he stared at a Rus-
sian--expressionless, with hat clamped firmly around
Greville Wynne, British business anan and amateur'
spy, saw the veteran professional, Conan Trofimovich
Molody, glide past him into the Soviet sector. In just 12
minuiles an episode of the most sensational proportions
In the silent war was over.
Off-hainri it seemed the n-.1- -#- t.... +h.. L...++,... ..?
sci;ntist--whose own scientific methods in espionage were
ap,,;ied. as if by a master. Caught and sentenced to 25
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' The aftermath of the Penkovsky arrest, followed by
Wynne's abduction in the streets of Budapest by Soviet'
counter-espionage agents, shook Soviet security on a world-
wide basis. A Soviet marshal was retired. Ranking rocketry
experts were shelved. From around the world, Russian,
agents were summoned home.
Lonsdale-Molody's feat in the silent war-,was staggering
on its own even though it can't begin to compare with
.-Abel's or with the Penkovsky affair.
It is, however, worth taking another look at for Its.
detail and painstaking care. A pretty classic case, as &,
veteran in the know-on the other side--explained with
professional detachment,
"`'Molody acquired a Canadian passport and the name of
Lonsdale through his service. The original Lonsdale was
liquidated or " had died. Thoroughly briefed, Lonsdale-
' Molody slipped into Canada. But he had been prepared
long before that-around five years in the United States.
.-.."Y .' -Ift.11111. 221ere lie nooxeCL up w an apparatus
that served him for some years in London before he was
caught.
A Bronx football star of the 1920s, a devoted'Com-
munist with long experience, had installed himself In a
by the name of Peter
Kroger, and his wife was Lola. They seemed such a.nice,
middle-aged couple. always good for a pint at the pub
with neighbors.
Kroger was" born Morris Cohen; and he and his wife
were closely tied to Col. Abel. They had him around in
New York to a few parties. When the search for atomic
spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg got hot, the Kroger-
Cohens skipped the country. :.,~:....:.,..~ ,.:'_.
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