WYNNE BY DON DALLAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600270030-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: October 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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WYNNE
BY DON DALLAS
LONDON OCT. 14 fREUTERS)
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IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA AS A SPY 3AID TODAY A CONCRETE
1BUNKER HAD BEEN BUILT AT THE SOVIET EMBASSY IN LONDON
FOR INTERROGATION PURPOSES.
GREVILLE'WYNNEp WHO SERVED MORE THAN A YEAR IN PRISON
IN RUSSIA, TOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE CALLED BY A
LONDON PUBLISHER THE BUNKER WAS BUILT WITH THE HELP OF
HUNDREDS OF PARCELS OF A CEMENT...HARDENING MIXTURE
BROUGHT INTO THE COUNTRY FROM RUSSIA BY SOVIET CITIZENS.
THE PRESS CONFERENCE WAS CALLED BY THE PUBLISHING FIRM OF
COLLINS IN CONNECTION WITH THE PUBLICATION NEXT MONTH OF A BOOK
CALLED "THE PENKOVSKY PAPERS."
THEY COMPRISE A ?SERIES OF NOTES, SKETCHES, AND COMMENTS,
MADE IN 1961 AND 1962 BY OLEG PENKOVSKY, RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC
AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER EXECUTED IN RUSSIA FOR
SPYJNG IN 1963.
THE COURT THAT SENTENCED PENKOVSKY GAVE WYNNE 10 YEARS DETENTION
FOR ALLEGEDLY ACTING AS LIAISON MAN WITH THE RUSSIAN FOR BRITISH
AND UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE.
WYNNE WAS RELEASED IN APRIL, 1964 IN EXCHANGE FOR RUSSIAN SPY
GORDON LONSDALEt SERVING A 25...YEAR SENTENCE IN BRITAIN,
WYNNE TOLD THE PRESS CONFERENCE THE "PENKOVSKY AFFAIR" CAU.:.ED P
'WHOLESALE SHAKEUP IN THE SOVIET SECURITY APPARATUS AND ALSO
SAID HE WAS WARNED BY THE RUSSIANS TO KEEP QUIET AFTER HE
'RETURNED TO BRITAIN.
WYNNE 46, SAM 'BE immmuLAITTI TO PUBLISH HIS OWN
ACCOUNT OF HIS EXPERIENCES IN RUSSIA, IN SPITE OF THE
WARNING.
HE SAID HE WAS TOLD BEFORE HE LEFT RUSSIA "REMEMBER YOU HAVE
A WIFE AND A SON." HE SAID SINCE HIS RETURN HE HAD -
"FURTHER HINTS."
HE SAID THE PENKOVSrY AFFAIR "PUT A BOMB" IN THE WORKS OF
RdSSIAN SECURITY. THERE WAS A WHOLESALE SHAKEUP
AND MANY PERSONS LOST THEIR JOBS, HE SAID.
WYNNE SAID IN THE SECTION OF PAPERS BEING PUBLISHED, PENX0V,Y
PICTURED CORRUPTION AND EXTRAVAGANT LIVING BY THE RUSsIAN
'ELITE, WITH WILD PARTIES AND ORGIES*
WYNNE SPOKE OF PENKOVSKY AS "AN ASSOCIATE AND LATER A
FIRM FRIEND." HE SAID THE RUSSIAN WANTED NOT MERELY
TO GIVVINTELLIGENCE INFORMATION BUT ALSO TO LET THE
BRITISH AND AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT HIS
MOTIVES.
HE SAID PENKOVSKY ON ONE VISIT TO LONDON BROUGHT WITH HP:
A SMALL BAG WHICH HE GAVE TO AN OFFICIAL AT THE RUSsIAN
EMBASSY.
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, PENKOVSKY DID NOT maw AT THE'TIME WHAT IT COiTAIN Di BUT FOUNE
OUT LATER IT WAS A HARDENING MIXTURE FOR CEMENT,
SYSNE SAID HUNDREDS OF VISITORS TO THE aovrET EMBASSY BROUGHT
SIMILAR PACKAGES. FORM THEM THE UNDERGROUND CONCRETE BUNKER
AT THE EMBASSY WAS BUILT.
"THE PENKOVSKT10.PAPERS" WILL BE PUBLISHED BY COLLINS, LONDON
SEPT. 0 AND DOUBLEDAY OF NEW _YORK SEPTA 1B.
-THEY ARE EDITED BY AMERICAN WAITER FRANK GIBNEY.
GIBNEY, IN AN INTRODUCTION QUOTED AT THE FIRES6 CONFERENCE,
SAID BY HIMSELF PENKOVSKY CRACKED THE SECRITY SYSTEM OF ,THE
WORLD $ MOST SECURITY?.CONSCIOUS aDVERWIENT AND "LEFT
IT VIRTUALLY IN PIECES AFTER HIS DISCLOSURES,"
RE SAID PENKOVSKY S BETRAYAL OF THE RUSSIAN REGIME RANKED WITH
CLASSIC ESPIONAGE CASES.
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