BRITISH PAPERS ASK SPY SWAP WITH SOVIETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600290077-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: May 13, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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LONDON, May 12 -A swap
of a British business man,
Greville Wynne, sentenced yes-
terday in Moscow to eight years
as a spy, f-r Rcron Molody,
a R t .~ian psi. jailed in London
for 25 years two ykars ago, was
discussed in Britain today.
"Whether or not Mr. Wynne
was sping for Britain, lht' gov-
ernment should do the humane
and sensible thing and arrange
as soon as possible to exchange
the convicted Russian spy for
Mr. Wynne," the London Ob-
server said.
The Sunday Telegraph pre-
dicted such a swap would be
welcome ir.;. Moscow. It the-
orized that the Russians may
have arresters' Wynne, guilty or
Molody, who posed in London
as Gordon Lonsdale, a Canadian
engineer, was the central figurI
t
'
sensa-
s mos
in one of Britain
tional spy cases. In the docki
with him were an American,'
Morris and Lela Cohen, both'
i` refugees from the FBI, and two
, British employees at the under-
water research station in Port-
I land, Ethel Gee, and Mary.
1' Houghton.
The Americans were jailed'
for 20 years and Miss Gee and
Houghton for 15 years.
I Molody. a professional spy.
ive` uiur scretTf years as a
small boy with an aunt in Cali-
' fornia. During World War II he
one to trade' for Molody.
May Have Framed Briton
Another London paper, The
People, said foreign diplomats
in Moscow.. generally assume a
have been framed by the Rus- .h real lAmsdale probably
sians to get a hostage for Mol*
u-as captured by the Rucslann
ody were supported by a rev.ry
e 1, l died in a Russian p_
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ynn
today that
been Invited by Hungarian of. camp, enabling Molody, years
the fyospec.of a lush contract Molody went to prison claim-
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A. J. Cox, :.R Birmingham tr,J fim.
ently on Russian orders, e1
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he was smuggled Into Canada
'and assumed the identity of a
Finnish-born Canadian who had
been last beard from fi?htinrl
Russian war of 1940.
JMl lgdy for Wynne. were bol- ,
mowers, for an nmencan-ar-
f reste d Russian spy known as
J Col, Abel.