In the spring of 1956, a letter from a Canadian citizen, Gordon Lonsdale, came to the Faculty of African Studies and Oriental Studies at the University of London with a request to accept him to study. Since the Canadian, according to the documents, had a solid bank account, his request was satisfied, and in September the same 56th Mr. Lonsdale descended from the vessel "America" in the port of Southampton to English soil. Thus began the illegal work in England, the most fortunate Soviet intelligence of the Cold War era. Conan Trofimovich the Young and... the history of electronic car security systems.

I must say that K. T. Young was a man of very interesting fate. He was born in Moscow in 1922. In 1932, with the permission of the Soviet government, Conan went to the United States and for six years lived in San Francisco with his aunt, who left for the United States in 1914. In 1938 he returned to Moscow, in 1940 he finished school and was called into the army. He spent the entire war in front intelligence. Demobilized in 1946, he entered the Institute of Foreign Trade, which he graduated in 51.
All in the same 1951 Young was involved in the work of the illegal intelligence of the state security agencies. Since 1956, he has been a resident of the Soviet intelligence in Britain under the guise of the Canadian citizen Gordon Lonsdale.
Like every illegal young man, he needed a good cover. Conan Trofimovich himself recalled that, in addition to studying at the University of London, he was required to engage in some business, which, on the one hand, had to take a minimum of time, and on the other hand to justify the existence of Mr. Lonsdale's decent funds, without which the intelligence officer is unable to engage in his business.

The young man quickly found such a business. He became one of the first dealers in Europe to engage in trading machines. These devices could trade any small commodity from chewing gum to condoms. At the same time, the tax authorities could hardly check their income. Such a device, being installed in a hard place, could "trade" almost any amount.

Lonsdale’s case quickly began to flourish. By the end of the 1950s, his company became a reputable company with a decent staff. And the youth intelligence has also reached impressive scales. He managed to have agents in many government institutions in Britain, several times personally attended closed parliamentary meetings as an honorary guest. Time for business with our intelligence was less and less. And then he decided to organize a new business that would be profitable, virtually without requiring his intervention. It was obvious to the young man that it must have been the production of some new product, and such that its potential consumers could become hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. Konan Trofimovich rightly believed that by setting up the production and wholesale sale of such a product, he would then be able to make a profit for several years, spending a minimum of time on managing the business.

The search for a suitable product for a long time did not bring results, but the young man helped the case. In the middle of 1959, a young man named Tommy Rourke, an employee of his machine service firm, told his boss that he had a serious business offer for him. “I want to introduce you, Mr. Lonsdale, to my father,” Tommy said. He invented a worthwhile thing.”

That same evening, the “Canadian” businessman visited Rurk the Elder. The old man turned out to be a busy man, and the device he invented was very promising.
The English "culibin" laid a black metal box on the table in front of our spy and removed the lid from it. Inside there were multicolored wires connecting various radio parts.

“It’s a guard,” said the old man proudly. The car guard. With these clamps you connect the device to the ignition system and the car starter. Now you will not be able to start it until you type the digital code on this disk.

After that, Rurk pulled his old Austin out of the garage and offered Lonsdale to start the engine. As soon as Gordon turned the key in the ignition lock, the car's clamps and headlights blinked. The car never managed to get started.

As it turned out, the old man already had time to patent his invention, worked on a new, more perfect model, but to find investors for the organization of production he failed. Realizing that he attacked the gold vessel, the young man promised to set up a mass release of car guards.

In the shortest time, our intelligence company created the company to produce the world’s first electronic alarm. The success did not come immediately, but a year later the company gradually began to make profits, and Lonsdale overturned its business of servicing trading machines.

The massive popularity of alarms came after the 1960 International Innovation Exhibition in Brussels. It was presented by Gordon Lonsdale and Rourke the Elder, and it won the Great Gold Medal "as the best British exhibition." After the exhibition, the alarms began to be sold throughout Europe. The company's turnover increased, a new model was being prepared for production, Lonsdale began to receive offers to buy a company from him for very decent money, but...

At the end of 1960, the Polish intelligence officer Mikhail Gonelewski fled to the West. Soon, the CIA transferred to the British intelligence services the data obtained from him about the agents of the illegal Soviet resident in England Ben (under such a code name passed in the closed documents of the Young) at the Navy base in Portland. He was monitored and in January 1961 Lonsdale was arrested during a conspiracy meeting with his informants.

In the course of the investigation, the British counterintelligence was unable to split our resident – he did not extradite anyone. Moreover, the British could not even know his real name - Conan the Young in all the investigation materials was under the name of Gordon Lonsdale. However, the court held over him in March of the same year sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Sitting in the English prison, Conan the Young continued to run his business until the end of 1963, when he became aware that he was going to be exchanged for British spy Herville Wynn, detained in the USSR. Then, according to some data, the Young sold his own control share of the company to the American electronic corporation "Saturn" (the funds from this transaction naturally filled the treasury of the Soviet Union). This company is known today in Russia for its alarms “Alligator”, “Pantera”, “APS”, “Jaguar”, “Clifford” and... “KGV”.

USSR folk artist Donatas Banionis repeatedly met with Conan the Young during the shooting of the film "Dead Season". It is unnecessary to say who became the prototype of the main character of the picture.

The Senior Lieutenant