Portland spy ring
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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 Establish
Konon Molody, who used the cover name Gordon Lonsdale, in 1961
Morris Cohen in the 1930s
Lona Cohen, on a 1998 Russian stamp
The former Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment on Portland
John Vassall
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William John Christopher Vassall was a British civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union, allegedly under pressure of blackmail, from 1954 until his arrest in 1962. Although operating only at a jun
Vassall photographed in 1984
