WEST'S SPIES ACTIVE, WYNNE HINTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600250047-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: November 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2001/07/26 W&SHM ?W1q$M0600250047-1
-N,D TIMES HERALD
NOV 12 1965
West's SpiesAcy,Wynne Hints
PYRGHT
GREVILLE WYNNE
" I shall never forget him."
.By Flora Lewis
Washington Poet Staff Writer
NEW YORK. Nov. 11-T
Englishman who was freed
x
from a Moscow jail in
n
change for Soviet py Gard
Lonsdale today -indicated t t
there are to estern sp
t
Q n,t'he Soy
now function~
Union. '
Greville Wynne, who served
as contact for Western intel-
ligence with Soviet State Se-
curity Colonel Oleg Penkov-
sky, appeared at a press con-
ference here to help launch
The Penkovsky Papers. The
book, now being serialized in
The Washington Post, is said
to be Penkovsky's memoirs
smuggled to the West before
the writer was convicted of
spying and executed in Rus-
sia.
Wynne was arrested in Hun-
gary ten days after Penkovsky
for a long time." Wynne said
e
was arrested in Moscow. The
Englishman was taken to Rus-
he did not believe that Rue-
sians were aware of his own
sia immediately, tried, sen-
real role In the espionage link
tented to eight years in pris-
despite his prison interroga-
on but sent home after 18T
months in return for Lons
dale.
He spoke with ardent ad-
tfon and learned the story
iiiy wsj en he came back and"
made j ltd
writin' own book disclosures. He is
about
the of air
m a ion o ,
whose main aim in providing
valuable information to the
West was "to prevent a war,"
Wynne said.
"There are other people
like him," he said, "But, of
course, you don't hear about
them until they get caught."
Penkovsky "was in the holy
of holies and he blew it sky
high," Wynne said, describing
his late friend's importance.
"They (the Russians) haven't
recovered yet and they won't
o s ae, w a
has also' published a book
about his activities in the
West. Wynne said this extra-
ordinary change in Soviet.pol-,
icy against discussing Mos-
cow's intelligence activities
was almost certainly provoked
by word that The Penkovsky
Papers would be published.
Lonsdale's book naturally
puts Soviet espionage in a
good light while The Penkov-
sky Papers does exactly the
opposite.
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