BRITISH SPY ON REDS' DIRTY TACTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600280007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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'CPYRGHT
By Adrian Berry
0/ The Herald Tribune Stall
. Greville Wynee, British
business man released by the
Russians' in April in a cold
war spa' trade, admitted here
yesterdW his Communist In-
terrogators "almost broke
me"- during his pre-trial in-
carceration in a Moscow pri-
son.
"They've got many .dirty
methods," Mr. Wynne, who
served nearly a year of a So-
viet-imposed eight-year sen-
tence, told a reporter aboard
the Queen Elizabeth before
sailing for home after a four-
week .recuperation cruise to
the Caribbean and New York.
His wife, Mrs. Sheila
Wynne, said she learned one
of the, methods used by the.
Russians was. ? to withhold
parcels she sent her husband
while he was In prison unless
he promised his interrogators
he "would do as they asked.."
Although Mr.. Wynne re-
fused to give details of his
treatment by the Russians,
his bitter outbursts against,
the Communists yesterday
gave some hint of Its severity:
"The Communist cancer is
spreading," he almost
shouted, passing a hand over
his forehead. "They haven't
CPYRGHT
changed at all; ,they're still
fighting the bloody revplu-
tion. They have quite dif-
ferent ideas about treating
people from what they have.
in America and Britain,"
"At my trial, as you know,
I pleaded guilty with reser-
vations," Mr. Wynne said,
"but I had nothing on my
conscience."
Had he been Recorded
proper legal rights before and
during his Moscow trial In
May, 1#631
"The only rights I had.
were those given me by Rus-.
sian law," he replied.
Mr. Wynne was reticent on,
his relationship with Oleg
Penkovsky, the Russian sci-
entific aid who. was tried
with him and shot. The
the trial. At that time he collapsed at his London home
testified that he had been and was hospitalized soon
pressured into working with after his return from Russian...."
Penkovsky by two ? Foreign Imprisonment. '
Office men named Ackroyd The Wynne said yesterday-
and King, who successfully they were on vacation so that
"commanded" and '.'threat Mr. Wynne could recover
ened" him. .?; ,from "general nervous ex-
Mr. Wynne, now 45, man- haustion.". Mr,- Wynne, who
aging director of Mobile Ex- ,,.looked fit, said: ,
hibitions, Ltd., was arrested "I have plans to travel, but,
in Hungary . in November,'` not behind the Iron Curtain,
1962, by Communist secret because I don't think I'll ?be
police. Despite strong protests welcome there."
by Lord Home, then British
Foreign Secretary and now,
Prime Minister Douglas-
Home, he was removed to
Moscow for trial. .
He was exchanged by, the
Russians in Berlin April 22
for Gordon Lonsdale, alias
Conan Trofimovich Molody, `
Russians of helping Penkov- who was jailed by the British'
sky pass information back to in March,' 1961, for master
the West. minding a spy ring con-
"Yes, I knew Penkovsky," cerned with British under-
Mr. Wynne said, adding: "I water weapon experiments..
may be writing a book about The British Government
all this when I get home, but
at' the moment I prefer to
say nothing." In April in some British cir-
Asked if he had been told cles that the Wynne-Lon-
by the British Foreign Office sdale exchange, made on ac-
to remain silent, he retorted: count of Mr. Wynne's deteri-
"It is a free man's right to orating health, was a mistake
say nothing ,if he chooses." in view of Lonsdale's form-
His remarks. were in con- idable skills.
tract. to those he uttered at ? Mr. : Wynne, reportedly
has always denied Mr.
Wynne was a spy. it was said