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Greville Maynard Wynne

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  • Gordon Arnold Lonsdale

    …the British intelligence agent Greville Wynne. His autobiography, Spy, was published in 1965.

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  • Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky
    Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky

    Wynne, a British businessman, he offered his services to British intelligence. Between April 1961 and August 1962 Penkovsky passed more than 5,000 photographs of classified military, political, and economic documents to British and U.S. intelligence forces. The information he provided on the Soviets’ relatively weak…

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    Wynne, a British businessman, he offered his services to British intelligence. Between April 1961 and August 1962 Penkovsky passed more than 5,000 photographs of classified military, political, and economic documents to British and U.S. intelligence forces. The information he provided on the Soviets’ relatively weak…

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