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Ethel Gee was born on 10 May, 1914 in Isle of Portland, Dorset, England, is a British spy for the Soviet Union (1914–1984). Discover Ethel Gee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 10 May 1914
Birthday 10 May
Birthplace Isle of Portland, Dorset, England
Date of death 7 June, 1984
Died Place Poole, Dorset
Nationality Oman

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1914

Ethel Elizabeth Gee (10 May 1914 – 7 June 1984), nicknamed "Bunty", was an Englishwoman who helped her lover spy for the Soviet Union.

She was a member of the Portland Spy Ring.

The daughter of a blacksmith, Ethel Gee lived on the Isle of Portland, England.

She left school at 15 to begin employment.

1950

In October 1950, she became a filing clerk at the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment at Portland.

She thus handled top secret documents on Britain's underwater warfare work and HMS Dreadnought (S101), the Royal Navy's first nuclear submarine.

Single, Gee had limited social life, since her spare time was spent looking after ageing relatives, including her mother, aunt and uncle.

1955

Around 1955, Gee met Harry Houghton, a former sailor who had become a civil service clerk.

1956

Houghton was an alcoholic; his marriage ended in divorce in 1956.

They would later pose as a married couple when they booked into London hotels.

Houghton had been supplying military secrets to spies from People's Republic of Poland and the Soviet Union for some time.

Through Gee, he gained access to more classified material.

1960

In July 1960, Houghton introduced Gee to a man whom she claimed to know only as "Alex Johnson", allegedly a commander in the US Navy.

"Johnson" wanted to know how the British handled confidential information provided them by the Americans.

Houghton and Gee were already under surveillance by the British Security Service MI5.

A Soviet mole code named "Sniper", subsequently identified as the defector Michael Goleniewski, had warned Western intelligence that information was being leaked from Portland.

Houghton's extravagance, which went far beyond his salary, made him an obvious suspect.

MI5 identified "Johnson" as Gordon Lonsdale, a Canadian businessman.

(It would be only much later, when he was in prison, that he was identified as Konon Trofimovich Molody, a Soviet KGB agent.) Gee provided classified material to Houghton, who would photograph it and pass it to Lonsdale in London.

1961

On 6 January 1961, Gee left the naval base with pamphlets that contained details of a ASDIC sonar device used to detect submarines.

The following day, Houghton and Gee were arrested in London by Special Branch detectives.

Also arrested were Lonsdale and Peter and Helen Kroger (alias Morris and Lona Cohen), all of whom were spies working for the Soviets.

They were the core members of the Portland Spy Ring.

Houghton and Gee were both sentenced to 15 years in prison on 22 March 1961.

The other spies were given longer sentences but were exchanged early on for captured British agents and citizens.

1962

Gee always claimed that she had acted out of affection for Houghton, and that seemed to have been confirmed by letters (also released, in redacted form) that she had written to him in 1962.

Gee at first protested her innocence, maintaining her claim that she believed that Lonsdale was an American.

In the course of the trial, however, she finally admitted: "In the light of what transpires now, I have done something terribly wrong, but at that time I did not think I had done anything criminal".

1970

Gee and Houghton served nine years and were released on 12 May 1970; they married in 1971.

1984

Ethel Houghton died in obscurity in Poole, Dorset, in 1984, leaving an estate valued for probate at £16,474 (equivalent to £0 in ).

2019

Files released in September 2019 indicated that Houghton, and perhaps Gee, could have been arrested in 1957 but MI5 ignored warnings from his spouse as the "outpourings of a disgruntled and jealous wife".

The Security Service finally acted only after it received a tip from a CIA agent who was a mole in the Polish intelligence service.