AN INTELLIGENCE COLONEL IN THE GUISE OF A SCIENTIST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600290070-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 70
• Content Type: NSPR

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E COLD = m TO GUISE OF A SCI1 4'xIST
In Ord*r to Condemn the English Businessman Wynn on an pions Charge
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identity of s Scientist.
been learned that the Russian scientist Pei*ovsky, vho had be
charge of spying against Russia with fish businessman
t on trial in Moscow, was not really a scientist but a
colonel of intelligence.
There are two suspects at this espionage trial which began in tease
7 May. One of theses is English businessman (3revil e Wynn, the other is
Soviet scientist 01*g Penkovsky. Both are accused of giving the West,
from 1961-1962, secret +iocum me pertaining to the Soviet Union's missile
East aeramtatny and Chineser-Soviet relations.
t revii o Wynne, o" of the accused? was arrested in But pest in
November 62 and sent to Russia. Wynne has been detained for six son-
Co Lot el P kov*ky, who was very popular in Diplomatic. circles
when be Vas Assistant ArzV Attache in Soviet bossy Ankara, from 1955-
1956, s sel teed to be a amber of the Cc ttee of Scientific Research
to an intelligence tactic of the Russians.
his i~a:,~ 3igernartea officer, to has no close or pct connection 'With
vith science, made many trip outside Russia in the guise of a "sci ti.st"
and tried to collect information.
ion received, t ovveky was born in 1919. He
t school in Kiev as ea Second-Lieutenant, in 1939.
waist Party in 1940 rising to lisee rank of
It-colonel in 1945 after the second arid war, Teen be was 26 a
g a colonel vben he ves. 31. Ho has received various pls.
55 he rk+e In Ankara. In 1956 he got on poor terms with fret
nee Chief C era1 Rubesnko and vas recalled to Moscow. After this,
e identity of a sciaen:t1et, and thus was able to contact
, scientists, sand delegations coming to Moscow. Thus the
g so far as to introduce Pankovsky to the 'West as a
by official 4*61aarations.
has been arrested and accused of spying
t fish businessman. Although his
in Moscow, it is understQo that this is preerras ed and
evicee to brine, about the sentencing of thee English burins
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