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  Greville Wynne
Greville Wynne was released in exchange for Gordon Lonsdale in April 1964.
Wynne's sentence began last November when he was arrested in Budapest, Hungary, and handed over to the Soviet authorities.
Mrs Wynne later told reporters her husband had joked he was not expecting "a Butlin's holiday camp".
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSwynne.htm   (688 words)

  
  Greville Wynne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wynne was arrested in Budapest and smuggled to the Soviet Union.
Wynne was convicted of spying on May 11, 1963 and sentenced to eight years in prison; Penkovsky was sentenced to death and executed.
Wynne was released in exchange for the spy Gordon Lonsdale in 1964.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greville_Wynne   (235 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 11 | 1963: Moscow jails British 'spy'
Greville Wynne was sentenced after a four-day trial in Moscow
The Soviet authorities rejected appeals by Greville Wynne's lawyer but 17 months into his sentence, they agreed to exchange Wynne for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale, serving 25 years in the UK.
On his release, Wynne was in a poor state of health.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/11/newsid_2524000/2524239.stm   (476 words)

  
 Free Essays on Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovsky
Wynne's was sentenced to eight years in prison while Colonel Penkovsky was to be executed by the firing squad (Knightly 315).
Wynne served about one year in prison before he was exchanged for a man by the name of Conon Molody who was arrested as Gordon Lonsdale (Knightly 315).
Greville Wynne had been imprisoned in the Soviet Union and was indeed traded in return for Gordon Lonsdale.
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 Wynne - new and used books
WYNNE (Edward): - Eunomus: Or, Dialogues concerning The Law and Constitution of England.
Wynne wrote to Locke on 31 January 1695 suggesting that it "would be very useful to publish an abridgment of the Book [i.
No spy case since the war has attracted greater attention than that of Greville Wynne, the British business man, and Oleg Penkovsky, the Red Army colonel, who was perhaps the most valuable agent who ever came to the West.
www.isbn.pl /A-wynne   (828 words)

  
 KGB: Debriefing - THE KGB v THE CIA: THE SECRET STRUGGLE
SIS was able to move quickly because it had already recruited a British businessman, Greville Wynne, as an agent to try to penetrate the State Committee for Science and Technology, which functioned as a cover organisation for KGB and GRU agents spying on Western technology.
Wynne got eight years but in April 1964 he was exchanged for Gordon Lonsdale, a KGB officer imprisoned in Britain since 1961 (see the PERCY story).
Wynne was unable to settle down to a routine existence in Britain and went to live in Majorca.
www.pbs.org /redfiles/kgb/debrief/k_brief_ter_knightley.htm   (8154 words)

  
 mister bijou: Considering a career change?
He was a British 'businessman' arrested in 1963 by the Soviets for spying and released in 1966 in a spy swap that took place at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie: the Brits got back Wynne and handed over Soviet KGB spy Gordon Lonsdale, aka colonel Konon Trofimovich Molody.
Anyway, some months after his release and return to the motherland, Wynne did a tour of universities and colleges to meet undergraduates studying politics.
Wynne was still claiming to be a businessman wrongly imprisoned by the Soviets, but he and the minder's visit was a fishing trip: identify the radicals (not hard) and suss out sympathisers to Queen and Country (far fewer).
misterbijou.blogspot.com /2005/10/considering-career-change.html   (176 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Janet Chisholm
Chosen because she spoke Russian and had started her working life as a secretary with the Secret Intelligence Service at the age of 20, Janet Chisholm was considered the safest person to contact Penkovsky, who worked for the GRU, the intelligence directorate of the General Staff.
When Penkovsky - to whom Wynne had given a photograph of Janet Chisholm with her children - arrived, he proceeded to engage her in seemingly casual conversation.
Wynne was given a long prison sentence from which he emerged a broken man in exchange for Gordon Lonsdale, the Canadian who had spied for Moscow in London.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/06/db0601.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/06/ixportal.html   (935 words)

  
 News - Leeds Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Both Wynne and Penkovsky were arrested in 1962, with the Russian sentenced to death and the Englishman jailed for eight years.
Mr Metcalfe said: "Greville Wynne is a hero of mine, he was a very brave man and I think his name should be remembered.
Eventually Wynne's cover was blown, leading to him being kidnapped in Hungary and put on show trial in Moscow.
www.leedstoday.net /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1208769   (718 words)

  
 Gordon Lonsdale - spymuseum.com
Lonsdale was convicted of conspiring to pass classified information and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
In 1964, Lonsdale was exchanged by the British for British agent Greville Wynne and traveled back to the Soviet Union where he was hailed as a national hero, writing a KGB sponsored book (with the help of Kim Philby) entitled Spy in 1965.
Suffered a heart attack outside of his apartment and died in 1970.
www.spymuseum.com /pages/agent-lonsdale-gordon.html   (342 words)

  
 The Moscow News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Baranov, you are one of the very few people who were present at the trial of Oleg Penkovsky and Greville Wynne.
Oleg Penkovsky was sentenced to death by firing squad while Wynne was given an eight-year prison term.
On May 17 Penkovsky was executed while Wynne was subsequently exchanged for a Soviet mole, Konon Molody.
english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2003-18-10   (705 words)

  
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DAPPER GREVILLE MAYNARD WYNNE, 44, WAS A SALESMAN WHO LIVED QUIETLY IN LONDON'S FASHIONABLE CHELSEA SECTION WITH HIS WIFE AND YOUNG SON WHEN HE WAS NOT ON THE ROAD SELLING ELECTRICAL MACHINERY IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE.
WYNNE WAS HAPPY TO MEET THE RUSSIAN, HE SAID, BECAUSE SOVIET CONTACTS WERE USEFUL FOR HIS MACHINERY BUSINESS.
THROUGH IT ALL, WYNNE DOGGEDLY MAINTAINED THAT HE WAS ONLY A BUSINESSMAN WHO HAD BEEN SNARED IN THE COILS OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE.
www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at /~andi/somlib/data/time60/ghsom/files/T262   (732 words)

  
 Oleg Penkovsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He even approached some students on the Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow in July 1960.
Eventually he persuaded Greville Wynne to arrange a meeting with British intelligence officers during a visit to London in 1961.
For the following eighteen months he supplied a tremendous amount of information to his SIS handlers in Moscow, Ruari and Janet Chisholm.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oleg_Penkovsky   (233 words)

  
 Biblio: The Man from Moscow the Story of Wynne & Penkovsky by Wynne, Greville: Details
Biblio: The Man from Moscow the Story of Wynne and Penkovsky by Wynne, Greville: Details
Wynne, Greville: The Man from Moscow the Story of Wynne and Penkovsky
The spine is a little loose and the cover is discoloured in places, while the text block is still tight.
www.biblio.com /books/3014233.html   (264 words)

  
 Journal of Intelligence History
On trial were the GRU-Colonel Oleg Penkovski (1919-1963), who had been accused of espionage, and his English liaison, Greville Wynne.
But even after thirty-four years and notwithstanding the political changes that had occurred in Russia in the meantime, the protocol of the third day (9 May), which had been closed to the public, is still missing.
His statements in court made it possible for Wynne to play the role of a businessman who had been used by intelligence despite the fact that Wynne had been a British secret service man since 1939.
www.intelligence-history.org /jih/reviews-1-2.html   (1699 words)

  
 J. Lyons & Co.
It had been ordered in the early 1960s by Greville Wynne, the British businessman, as part of his equipment when travelling to eastern Europe and it was designed to conceal a British Leyland Mini.
He was arrested in Hungary in November 1962, accused of being a spy and was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment.
In April 1964 he was exchanged for the spy Gordon Lonsdale but Colonel Oleg Penkovsky Wynne's go-between in Russia, was executed.
www.kzwp.com /lyons/normand.htm   (432 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - wynne, Children's Books, Fiction Books, Non-Fiction Books items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Wynne's Infallible Hunter Exposure Meter with Tin etc..
Diana Wynne Jones "Chrestomanci The Magicians." PB Perf 
Conwy Welsh studio pottery vase Carol Wynne Morris 
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 Greville Wynne book 'Man from Odessa' (Concorde/Tu144)
If you want to read the story of the Concorde plans "theft" and the connection to the TU144 crash in Paris.
Find a copy of Chapman Pinchers book "Their Trade is Treachery." He was the "unofficial spokesperson" for MI5/6 and has a whole chapter on the "theft", the changes made re centre of gravity,and the Paris airshow crash when The Concorde and The TU144 were put through their paces.
Had a look at the links during lunch and both made for a really good read.
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 Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660
Kuhl, 'Contemporary Politics' = E. Kuhl, 'Contemporary Politics in Elizabethan Drama: Fulke Greville', PQ 7 (1928), 299.
Larson, Fulke Greville = Charles Larson, Fulke Greville, Twayne, 1980.
Morgan, 'Fulke Greville's Birth', TLS, 4 November 1944, 535.
shakespeareauthorship.com /bd/bib-jm.htm   (2987 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk -zShops: Wynne Greville:: The Man From Moscow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Amazon.co.uk -zShops: Wynne Greville:: The Man From Moscow
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The spy story of the 1960s involving Greville Wynne and Oleg Penkovsky.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The spy story of the 1960s involving Greville Wynne and Oleg Penkovsky.
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 eBay.co.uk - wynne, Children's Books, Fiction Books, Magazines items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Diana Wynne Jones - The Magicians of Caprona AS NEW 
The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones.
Diana Wynne Jones DROWNED AMMET Rare 1st Ed.
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 CIA - 1960s - Penkovsky
Trial in the Criminal Case of the Agent of the British and American Intelligence Services, Citizen of the USSR, O.V. Penkovsky, and the Spy Go-Between, G.M. Wynne, 7-11 May 1963.
Clark comment: Wynne's account of his involvement with Penkovsky should in all instances be crosschecked with Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World.
Rocca and Dziak: "An autobiographical introduction to Wynne's role in the Penkovskiy case.
intellit.muskingum.edu /cia_folder/cia60s_folder/cia60spenkovsky.html   (1296 words)

  
 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home
In Copenhagen, the head of the little mermaid statue is stolen.
Russians swap British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned as a spy, for Gordon Lonsdale, jailed for his part in an espionage ring uncovered in 1961.
Britain's first pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, begins broadcasting from the Channel, outside British waters.
www.britannia.com /gov/primes/prime51.html   (239 words)

  
 Penkovsky Oleg @ Cold War Guide
His blow up came first in 1963, due to his expensive way of life.
His contact officer, Greville Wynne, was arrested too, but was later exchanged for G.Londsdale.
The Soviets later tried to proclaim that Penkovskiy was a phony, delivering prepared misinformation and that he's still alive, but that was probably the KGB trying to calm down the affair.
www.cold-war.info /people/penkovsky-oleg.html   (303 words)

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