WYNNE BY DON DALLAS

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000600270030-7
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RIPPUB
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2
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November 17, 2016
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June 29, 2000
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30
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Publication Date: 
October 14, 1965
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NSPR
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PYRGHT UOTIIR8 Approved_For Release 2000118DBER IIIIAX*75-00149R000600270030-7 R787 WYNNE BY DON DALLAS LONDON OCT. 14 fREUTERS) CPYRGHT IT ISH 'us Es-'*-AN w,Q 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. Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600270030-7 41.1.V.0.4.11a14 Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00149R00060027003Q-7 CPYRGHT , 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. XM 11122A OCT 1 5 Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600270030-7 LI 196