PENKOVSKY NOT ONLY ONE, SAYS BRITON 'WE HAVE MANY SPIES IN KREMLIN'

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1965
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Penkovsk Not Only One, Says Briton.
We Hive Many Spies
in Kremlin'
BY MILT FREUDEN)LIEIM
Daily News Foreign Service
NEW YORK - Greville
Wynne, Western contact man
who stood trial with Soviet
spy Oleg Penkovsky, says,
"There are certainly manymore like Pcnkovsky spying
for the West inside the,Krem-
tin now."
In his first interview in a
year, Wvnne added:
"Petkovsky was not' the
only one. You'd never have
heard about him if he hadn't
beep. caueht. Unless they are
cauhg'fjt, you won't hear of the
otherk either."
Publication of details about
Soviet spies and sordid privati
activities of high Russian lead-
ers will result; in_ a new shake
up in Moscow, he predicts.'
(The Pcnkovsky Papers cur-
en icily of the papers.
or suggesting that the' U.S.
Central
Intelligence
Agency
He
staid
is
:.ccmcd a n n io
o d" again
flank (rihnrv's
furfl,contin
hook on the papet when they
of Russia. Wynne said he had
nothing to do with the trans-
mittal.
Wynne -,aid he immediately
recognized Penkovsky`k ling
aerial when Gibney s h mr c ii
him the papers. however.
" It was just like Penkuv~ ki
talking,
ti1at1. of thethmr:, in she
papers .)`recce ckac'tly like o~?hatt.
ettsserl\vith me in great detail,';
1Wrvnne said.
Penkovsky didn't give, the
rently are be'it}g printed in papers to Wynne because "he
The Chicago Daily News). knew that T would have handed
"It seems to me a lot more theta over to the authorities,"
to lose their he added. 'It is possible in
people are goin
g
~
ol?~now," he said. "I could my view certain facts would
Gordon ?tlc. `'Vo'vrtne says flat owl,Wynne, believes, as a
give you a few Moscow-11,1. have been or should have been he is counter-more when the Rus-
left out. Bait Penkovskv didn't .. s Crlarn Pcnkovsky was
dressed where I would like' t~,
ktllled, but not until some time scans learned last tiprn,g that
see cppies of the Pcnkov~ks want this." after [lie Russsians puhlicl4 an Penkovskv's papers were to he
sent." THE MOSCOW t r i a I it nounced his execution. issued in the West.
which Penkovsk was con-
During this interim while: ASKED WHY Penkovskv
demned to death and Wynne Penkovskv 9t i 1 I was alive. should he believed in view of
Today's installment of to eight years' imp s iutt nt Wynne said he "kept fairly ur I the duplicity Penkovsky is ,was uplicity of his life cos a
papers nhom one. Th y, i c' cr."' only publishing some rely- Russian spy betraying his
on the Back Page. rt tin, (advance) agr,emenis lively superficial memoirs county, Wynne cited
made on 1}tnlh sides for the keep the newspapers at hay. seriously the Russians viewed
benefit of the Russian people," Now he plans to publish hisl all this -- 300 agents called
WYNNE branded as "non- Wynne said, own full memoirs. back (security chief Gen. Ivan)
sense" a statement in Tin> ,,F~i ~v~ l~gscd I t Serov not heard from recent ly."
maApprQttr{i do~i@ f c Sel 50 ~r ~ 0'~0 e n ict's 1
or, ovrei :P IS ec y t e oviets rn a "Then there was the Berlin
inns implying doubts about ''ps konon tilolody, known as rope under the, title "Spy" was elimhctnwn," Wynne added. "In
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the Iasi, [crl' years, the Rus-
sians have been pretty quiet,
compared to the. time when
Russian and American tank
wercpnse to nose in Berlin.
"Khrushchev, is gone, too. Ft
seems to me there is a very
strong connection between thi<
matter (ouster of Soviet l'rc
mier Nikita Khrushchev) and
the Russian discovery of Pen-
kovsky."
"1 cannot tell you more de-
tails, because I leave I h c s e
things for later," Wynne added.;
WYNNE A I, S 0 dircloscct
that he and Pcnkovsky dis
cussed Soviet relations w i t h.
Communist China, but said he.
prefers to keep silent on this.
'"at the'moment.;'
Eater in a news conference,
Wvnne said if it hadn't been
for Penkovsky's revelations tb
the West. "you would .li a v e
had more than a blackout in,
this city. This man saved (usl
b war." He said he meant at
the time of the Berlin and Cu
ban crises.
17xplaining how Pcnkovsky.
could nice[ him so openly in
spite of Soviet security. Wynne
said the Russians hoped to rc-
crtiit him as their agent. They
thought Penkovsky was work
ing on recruiting Wynne.
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