WYNNE BACK AND 'OVERJOYED' 3ST. LOST IN PRISON BUT IN GOOD HEART

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100020010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Content Type: NSPR

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E WYNNE, the 45-year-old British %.
businessman gaoled as a spyby.the Russians,
was re-united with his wife and' elder son. Andrew,`
12, outside their Chelsea home yesterday.
The,-couple embraoed, then ran arm-in-arm
into 'the hnuse, Asked h'ow he felt after, his 18-
mo11th'o1?d I M
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, r. said: I feel as I look.
.So. you can judge for yourself."
Mr. . Wynne, who lost nearly three stones in
weight. during .his .17 months in' Russian prisons,
was flown home after being exchanged at a Berlin
border checkpoint -early, yesterday for. Gordon
"'Lonsdale, the Russian spy
gaoled for 25 years in
Britain in 1961.
Mr. Wynne's release followed
reports that his, health was
deteriorating, He was examined
by a London ,doctor, Dr.
E. C. A. Bott, two hours after
arriving home. . Dr. Bott said
Mr. Wynne is as well as can
be expected, He is in very
good heart."
Mr. Wynne had a,celcbrati
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dinner, and drank ' champagne
with his family and friends last
night,' While a policeman sto
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gu ird outside his house. Be
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POOR .BUSINESS "
Bargain against West
Meanwhile LonSdaJe an ...i.,..,_
somewhere behind the Iron `Cti
thin. + Lonsdale was the master'
M,Ofthe. Portland espio ... nage?t1ng,`
Looking thin and' strained, Mr.
Wynne came out of the aircraft
and posed for pictures at the top
of the steps, He was wearing a
well-cut prey suit. with a Notting
ham University tie,' and a fig t-
weight blue raincoat.
I1' would not speak to reporters
abo t the treatment he had e=
ceiv d in Russia, apart from saying.
that the three meals a day he was
offci ed in prison did not agree j
with him.
PRISON "MOVE"
Prelude to release
The first indication 'he had xhat
he might be going home came less
than 24 hours before he landed at
Northolt.
I ' was sitting 'in my 'cell in
Vladimir Prison (about 120 miles
from Moscowl when they came in
and told me I was to, be moved
from the gaol," he said, "I didn't',
know where I was going or any-"
thing about it.
"I was -Put In a plane and got
to East Berlin, at least I assumed
it was East Berlin, because I didn't
really know, The first time I knew'
definitely tj was being freed was at
four a,m. when I was handed
ver,"
Mr. Wynne said he heard no
ention of Lonsdale while yin
rison. He did not realise he was
me half of an exchange deal until
to was safely in the British ca'r
aking him to West Berlin.
Asked why" he had pleaded
uilty "with some reservations"
t his trial. Mr. Wynne said: "At'
he present time T ? am riot going
o make , any comment on this.`
tatter:"
"twenty minutes after leaving the
lane Mr. Wynne spoke to his wife;
y.telephone,. It was the first time'
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The exchange of" this -brilliant
Russian intelligence officer for n
Wynne's walk to Freedom-, aid
Lonsdale's Family-Back Pag '
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Englishman always described' as,
" a businessman " appeared to be
poor business for the West.
But to the Russians it was a fair
exchange. They alleged that Mr,:
Wynne .was the link between the;
Soviet traitor Oleg Penkovsky, a"
scientist and high-ranking ofcec;
of their security service, and the*
British Embassy in Moscow, which;
transmitted the , secrets he dis-
cl.
THIN AND STRAINED
Silent on treatment
After the Berlin exchange, Mr.
Wynne was flown to Nort.holt Air
port in an R A F Transport Com
mand plane, First aboard when:
the plane landed was a Foreign;
Office official, closely followed by
public relations. officers from the.
Ministry of Defence and the
Ministry of Civil Aviation.
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BY CA"TORS
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