RELEASE A SURPRISE. . . I DID NOT KNOW WHERE I WAS GOING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100020011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

c in Mr. Wynne
'IMES
23 April 1964
".RELEASE A SURPRISE, - - I DID N
CPYRGHIC KNOW WHERE I WAS GOING"
From a prison cell near Moscow to J clothes policemen. Reporters and
his home in a quiet Chelsea street within photographers outside his home were
24 hours -this was the speed with which joined'by neighbours, who cheered Mr.
the exchange was executed. Wynne, a rather bewildered tigurc, as
When Mr, Wynne arrived home he left the car. Police had to force a
;yesterday, he said he heard from the way for him through the crowd.
Russians while sitting in his cell on How did he feel ? " I feel as I look
Tuesday that he was to be moved from he. told reporters. "You must judge
Moscow. "They did not give me any for yourselves, gentlemen."
1 definite indication that 1 was to be What were his plans ? . " To get back
exchanged. They just said there was a to my family ", he replied, adding: " f
possibility that I was leaving the prison. sec them there" as he noticed his wife
I did riot know where 1 was going or' Pushing her way into the crowd to greet
anything about it." hint. They kissed and, embracing each
It was only yesterday morning, just other, walked up the garden path. A
before he was handed over to the British few feet from the doorway Mr. Wynne
authorities at the Berlin checkpoint, that saw his son in the entrance hall. Rushing
he was told about his release. forward he embraced him.
hat had brou
ht
and thin and with his head shaven he L.arcr rv-r, ,roscpn 1Saker, a triend of
and
a nef interview that the he the family, said Mr. Wynne was resting,
.cange said had come. tern a sue-that t himex- . He had not slept for two days. He had
declined have not reallycgllected my thoughts feel l like e ttit eat lunch , saying he did not
set two three
yet ". he stated. ." I am overwhelmed. 'f, was had
well.
I want to get back to normal life as stone, but was otherwise quite wsoon as possible." After visiting Mr. Wynne in the after-
noon, Dr. Edward Bott, of Montpelier
} NEIGHBOURS CHEER Square., Knightsbridge, said: " I found
He Said he had lost considerable him as well as could be expected. He
weight, He had found the, food in the is in very good'heart, but he has got to
prison " very difficult to take, not being take things quietly."
accustomed to it ". Mr. Ambrose Appelbe, the London
the accustomed
interview Mr, Wynne who acted for Harry Houghton
After
went and Ethel Gee, who were both sentenced
to a private room in the airport where to 15 years' imprisonment at the same
he telephoned his wife, who was await-, trial as Lonsdale for passing information
ing his arrival at their home in Upper, about the underwater weapons estab-
Cheync Row with their son, Andrew, llishment at Portland, said yesterday he
aged 11. Throughout the morning tele- intended getting in touch with them. He
grams of good wishes arrived a~ the considered it extremely unfair that the
houses mere subsidiary characters should
On the drive from the airport Mr, remain incarcerated while the principal
Wynne was accompanied by plain I character was released.
ANG LO-FRENCH TALKS ON
TRAINER AIRCRAFT
Aviation Ministry officials and their
French opposites are investigating the
possibility of a joint requirement for an
advanced training aircraf! for* the
Services. ,
A Ministry of Aviation ? spokesman
said: " The discussions are in the early
stages, and we have not' ',go't down to
'details about, 'the plane- itself. Both.
countries have a requirement'for a new
advanced trainer, and this is it possible
fiel41 fora joint project with the French."
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Humane . Exchange
e exchange of MR. WYNNE for 10R.
ILONSUALE was justified on humanitarkan
grounds, but there are dangers in
this sort of thing becoming a habit. The
Russians get a rook for a pawn, as they
did two years ago when they,exchanged
MR. FRANCIS POWERS for COLONEL
ADEL, In neither case did the disparity
matter very much in itself, for the
Russian pieces were no longer able to,
do serious harm. However, it would be
dangerous if the Russians ' were to
become too confident of western
humanitarianism. Every time one of
their spies was caught they would be
tempted to seize some minor courier, or
even a harmless tourist, and trade him
over the counter. It is not impossible
that this is what they were up to with
PROFESSOR BARGHOORN, who was not
released until PRESIDENT KENNEDY made
it clear that the entire progress of rela-.
tions between the two countries was
threatened. This was no tactical exag-
geration. Free and confident travel in
both directions is essential if the
detente is to make any sense. Fear of
arbitrary arrest is a serious obstacle, and
too much exchanging of prisoners could
increase it.
There is also a danger in reducing
the deterrent effect, that long prison sen-
tcnces must have on spying. The diffi-
culty here is that one's own agents suffer
as much as the enemy's. But 'spying
i
nevitablyfliihiie
concts wt cvlizd value ,
and most spies, knowing this, expect r o
me cy,. The desire to seek it on the it
elealf , is understandable, , Regrettably
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WOMAN RALLY DRIVER
IN HOSPITAL
iONACF ONTARIO, April 22.--Mrs.
Anne Hall, one of Britain's leading
women drivers, suffered cuts on the
head today when the car ?he.shared with
her Amcr'ican navigator, ' Mrs. Jean
Steagall,, overturned during the 4,000-
mile cross-Canada rally. Mrs. 1-tall was
taken to hospital at Dryden. 70 miles
west of here; she was expected to be
detained overnight. Mrs.,Stcagall was
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se on a patc of ice. ` Assoc/aier! Press,..