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	Penkovsky, Oleg - Spy Biographies @ Spy School
		Penkovsky told the SIS officers that he wanted to help the West and after convincing them that he was sincere, his offer was accepted.
		Penkovsky was arrested having finally been compromised by film of his meetings with the Chisholm family, George Blake having warned the KGB that Ruari Chisholm was a SIS Officer.
		The real problem with the whole Penkovsky saga revolved around the suspicion aroused by the knowledge that the KGB had indeed suspected Penkovsky for months before his arrest, but for reasons as yet unknown he was allowed to continue passing intelligence to the West.
	www.spyschool.com /spybios/penkovskyo.htm (622 words)

	Free Essays on Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovsky
		Oleg Penkovsky was born in a small town on the 23rd of April in 1919.
		Penkovsky was in this delegation that was bound for London (Richelson 276).
		One such theory is that Penkovsky was a KGB plant to serve the Soviets by providing the west with disinformation.
	www.123student.com /4962.htm (2846 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Oleg Penkovsky
		Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (1919–1963) was a colonel with Soviet military intelligence (GRU) in the late 1950s and early 1960s who passed important secrets to the west.
		Penkovsky's father died fighting as an officer in the White Army in the Russian Civil War when he was only four months old, a fact that later became important in his life.
		Penkovsky had a negative experience with his superiors while working in the Soviet intelligence services in Turkey in the 1950s, and returned to Moscow.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Oleg_Penkovsky (485 words)

	Greville Wynne Information
		He was an intermediary for Oleg Penkovsky, who was engaged in selling arms and weapons secrets to British intelligence.
		Unfortunately, Penkovsky's activities were revealed by Jack Dunlap, a double-agent working for the KGB, who swiftly drew the conclusion that there was a mole in their ranks and set about uncovering him.
		Penkovsky was arrested, giving up Wynne's name; the Chisholms were expelled from Moscow for behaviour incompatible with their diplomatic status.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Greville_Wynne (218 words)

	MI-6 versus KGB-FSB: The Battle in Moscow
		Penkovsky, described by one intelligence officer as the "best spy in history", was considered so important that a meeting was arranged between him and Sir Dick White, head of MI6.
		Penkovsky was immediately arrested and it was not long before he gave the name of Greville Wynne as his British contact.
		Penkovsky's case, being very old, is interesting for two reasons tying this case to the recent spying scandal.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=634 (1865 words)

	Oleg - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Oleg concluded commercial treaties with the Byzantine Empire in 907 and 911, making trade with the empire a major factor in the Kievan economy and opening the path for Greek Christian cultural penetration.
		Oleg Cassini, investors ink deal for He-Ro.(fashion designer and Stonehill Investment Corp. to acquire 80% stake in He-Ro Group Inc.; to be renamed Oleg Cassini Group International Ltd.)(Brief Article)
		Behind the throne: Oleg Garkhov is a shadowy figure with a murky past.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Oleg.html (440 words)

	JOE BULIK - 31.1.98
		This is a picture of Oleg Penkovsky in his uniform and all of his medals, which he earned during World War Two.
		JB: This is a photograph of Oleg Penkovsky taken by the Soviets during the trial in 1963 and one can see by the look on his face and by the facial features that he'd gone under hell, particularly when he's compared to a more visible one...
		JB: This is a photograph of Oleg Penkovsky taken by the Soviets during his trial in 1963 and I could see and one else can see the hell he'd been through by looking at his face, particularly when one compares with the previous photograph of him.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-21/bulik6.html (683 words)

	The New York Review of Books: A VERY IMPORTANT SPY
		Penkovsky suggested they stop meeting in public places but continued to deliver film and materials to her at diplomatic functions until Mrs.
		The campaign to brand Penkovsky a double agent was a KGB disinformation ploy to cut Soviet losses in the Penkovsky case, downplay his importance and lessen the impact of the vital materials he provided to the West.
		Oleg Penkovsky was an important spy for the West who delivered important information of use to American officials during the Cuban Missile Crisis—on this Mr.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/2528 (1368 words)

	Metal Gear Solid: The Unofficial Site » Dangerous Games
		Penkovsky established that this conviction was nothing but a white lie, peddled by Khrushchev perhaps in order to provide psychological security in the face of a declining economy in relation to the United States and Western Europe.
		The Penkovsky case also illustrates how reality can be as complex and unpredictable (if not more so) than the fiction which it gives birth to.
		The Penkovsky case (despite the fact that it occurred at the high point of Cold War tension as did Metal Gear Solid 3) was little more than a drop in the bucket when set against a spy game which encompassed almost one half of the twentieth century.
	www.metalgearsolid.org /show_features.php?id=459 (1189 words)

	Guardian \| Janet Chisholm
		In Moscow, as an officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), she ran Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel in Soviet military intelligence (GRU), who passed Soviet secrets to the west at the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crises.
		Penkovsky had been trying to offer his services to the west for some years, blatantly buttonholing diplomats and businessmen at receptions and approaching tourists in the street.
		Penkovsky would wander by, stop to admire the youngest child and slip a box of sweets into its pram.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4991214-103610,00.html (823 words)

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		According to Gen. Chistyakov, chief of the KGB investigation department, written guarantees were read out to the accused that his life would be spared in exchange for full cooperation with state security agencies and a frank confession.
		Penkovsky had access to the highest military circles - take, for example, Marshall of Artillery Varentsov, with whom he had confidential conversations.
		Oleg Penkovsky was sentenced to death by firing squad while Wynne was given an eight-year prison term.
	english.mn.ru /english/printver.php?2003-18-10 (691 words)

	The Chronic Curmudgeon: I Spy... A Cold War Bar
		Having studied Cold War history in undregrad, I knew that Penkovsky was the source for some of President Kennedy's confidence during the Cuban Missile Crisis; it was Penkovsky who revealed to the West that the Soviets' nuclear arsenal was far smaller than they'd told the world.
		Penkovsky's information, before and during the crisis, was critical to western understanding in the early 1960s.
		Penkovsky told his superiors that British businessmen who might be open to either wittingly or unwittingly giving up crucial information would not likely consort with a Russian in public; he needed help to get a private sanctuary in which he might get the fops hammered and conduct his espionage in a safer environment.
	www.thechroniccurmudgeon.com /archives/2006/05/i_spy_a_cold_wa.htm (877 words)

	The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War. - book reviews Washington Monthly ...
		The transcripts of Penkovsky's debriefings were generously bequeathed to the authors by the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act.
		They show-as The Penkovsky Papers did not -that this most valuable agent revealed that the Soviets were playing a game of liar's poker with their nuclear weapons.
		Penkovsky divulged that the Soviets had a mere handful of ICBMs, whose electronics and fuel systems were dubious.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n5_v24/ai_12249385 (860 words)

	The Moscow News
		Baranov, you are one of the very few people who were present at the trial of Oleg Penkovsky and Greville Wynne.
		Rather, Penkovsky was counting on the tradeoff that had been reached at Lefortovo prison.
		In official documents, Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky was identified as an employee of the USSR Council of Ministers State Committee for Coordination of Scientific Research Projects.
	english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2003-18-10 (705 words)

	Amazon.de: The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War: English Books: Jerrold ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Granted access to transcripts of Penkovsky's debriefings in Paris and London by U.S. and British intelligence, Schecter and Deriabin bring into focus for the first time Penkovsky's character and personality, his motivations for betraying his country, and the dimensions of the risks he took.
		While Oleg V. Penkovsky may not, literally, have saved the world, this tellingly detailed saga reconfirms that the turncoat GRU colonel provided the West with priceless intelligence during the early 1960's, when the cold war very nearly turned hot.
		Penkovsky's information proved invaluable to JFK in his confrontations with Khrushchev prior to the Berlin Wall, as well as during the Cuban missile crisis.
	www.amazon.de /Spy-Who-Saved-World-Colonel/dp/0684190680 (660 words)

	Movie Info for Wynne and Penkovsky on MSN Movies
		The two-part British miniseries Wynne and Penkovsky was based on the true story of a Soviet G.R.U. colonel who worked as an undercover agent for the U.S. and Britain from 1960 to 1962.
		Until his arrest, Oleg V. Penkovksy (here played by Christopher Rozycki) was at the center of several volatile political incidents, and had been credited with providing the intelligence necessary for the Allies' successful maneuverings during the Berlin and Cuban Missile crises.
		It was Wynne's volume that served as the principal source for Wynne and Penkovsky, which first aired in the U.K. on January 2, 1985.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=531328 (158 words)

	CIA - 1960s - Penkovsky
		Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, a Soviet GRU colonel, served as an agent-in-place for U.S. and British intelligence from late 1960 until his arrest in October 1962.
		Despite the numerous quotations from Penkovsky's interviews with his U.S. and British case officers (he met with them 42 times), the authors present their text in a readable fashion.
		This conclusion is not to 'debunk' Penkovsky or to denigrate his espionage.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /cia_folder/cia60s_folder/cia60spenkovsky.html (1292 words)

	Oleg: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Oleg Pavlov is one of the most gifted exemplars of what has been dubbed the "renaissance in Russian literature." Like all of the...
		The spy who loved us by Tim Weiner KGB defector Oleg Penkovsky was dying to give America the Soviets deepest secrets...penetrate the steely Soviet shield -no one, in short, to listen when Oleg Penkovsky, a deeply disgruntled colonel in Soviet military intelligence...
		Byline: Oleg Cassini Loiewski EVEN in international playboy circles, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, who has died, aged 92, reveals a life that would sound far-fetched as a plot for the 1940s Hollywood...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/oleg.jsp?l=O&p=1 (1500 words)

	Segured.com
		Penkovskys revelations simply would not have been decisive without overhead reconnaissance, and without McNamaras reevaluation of the wisdom of a massive, spasmodic nuclear strike against the Soviets.
		While the take from Penkovsky was invaluable in the case of Cuba-his data on Soviet missiles gave the White House time to think-other factors were at least as important in helping Kennedy reach his decision.
		The official recognition of Penkovsky as the most valuable agent ever to come to the CIA from inside Russia should be evaluated in light of the CIA:s treatment of others.
	www.segured.com /index.php?od=9&link=7717 (1674 words)

	Oleg Penkovsky
		Oleg Penkovsky was born in Russia in 1919.
		In 1955 Penkovsky was appointed military attaché in Ankara.
		Penkovsky alerted the West to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, and his information about the Soviet nuclear arsenal shaped the American approach to the subsequent Cuban missile crisis.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSpenkovsky.htm (523 words)

	Daugherty \| Handler of the "Spy Who Saved the World"
		A "case officer" is a staff officer in an espionage agency who recruits foreign nationals ("agents") to spy against their own country, and then "handles" or manages the operation ("case) so that the agent’s safety is protected while he or she provides secret information to the case officer.
		Penkovsky’s intelligence was vital to JFK’s ability to resolve the crisis without war (including nuclear) against either Cuba or the Soviet Union.
		Ashley’s recounting of Kisevalter’s life is thorough, and the details of the Popov and Penkovsky cases are sufficiently adequate for readers to come away with a good sense of the difficulties they presented, the operational modalities they involved, and the vital importance of each.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/item/2005/0709/book/book_daugherty.html (991 words)

	Spies: Segment Summaries and Discussion Questions
		Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet WWII military hero, becomes America's eyes and ears in the Soviet Union.
		How did Penkovsky "get into the mind of the Khrushchevs of the world?" Eyewitness Joe Bulik states that this was a "weapon that no technical amount of information can give you." Explain what he means.
		Oleg Kalugin, the KGB Chief of Counterintelligence, states, "I did not conceive, I did not plan, I was not involved in any execution, but I was aware.
	turnerlearning.com /cnn/coldwar/spies/spys_dis.html (1132 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Oleg
		945, duke of Kiev (912-45), successor of Oleg as ruler of Kievan Rus.
		The capital moved to Kiev under Rurik's successor, Oleg, and members of his...
		Oleg Zhivetin Russian icon painting is a profound influence in Oleg's work.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Oleg (793 words)

	CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Oleg Penkovsky's Letter
		In 1960 Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet colonel in military intelligence, grew disillusioned with the Soviet system and began working with Western governments by sharing secret Soviet documents.
		Below is a letter from Penkovsky, translated from the original Russian, to top government officials in Great Britain and the United States -- requesting military rank and citizenship in exchange for information he could provide.
		In 1962 Penkovsky was arrested and later executed for his activities.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/21/documents/oleg.letter (379 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Obituary: Janet Chisholm
		The wife of a fellow spy, she became the conduit for information passed to the West by Soviet Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel in military intelligence.
		After Penkovsky's treachery was discovered and punished by the KGB, the Chisholms had to leave Moscow in a hurry.
		When Oleg Penkovsky made it clear his military secrets were available, MI6 decided to see just what he had to offer.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/3559020.stm (629 words)

	JOE BULIK - 31.1.98
		And it wasn't until the U-2 planes were photographing Cuba that they photographed these very sites and when John McCone, Director of CIA, saw the sites, compared the information that Penkovsky gave us, he was convinced that these were offensive missiles and he took them to President JFK and convinced him that these were missiles.
		There was still a danger there, but he was also told that Khrushchev was a great bluffer and to try and work his way out of it, which he did.
		Bobby Kennedy said that the Cuban Missile Crisis, which Penkovsky helped us with, was worth all of CIA from 1947 to 1961, all the money that was spent on CIA to that time, it was worth, at least financially that's what it was worth and of course it saved our country.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-21/bulik3.html (1188 words)

	JOE BULIK - 31.1.98
		Tell me what your job consisted of at the point when Penkovsky came into your life, and you can explain in as lively a fashion as possible.
		JB: The first meeting with Oleg Penkovsky was about seven p.m.
		April twenty first 1961 and he was told what room to go to at the Mount Royal Hotel in London and thanks to my MI6 friends, they permitted me, since he first wanted to meet the Americans, to be the one to answer the door and meet him.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-21/bulik1.html (1032 words)

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