Greville Wynne
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Greville Wynne was a British businessman who acted as courier between MI6 and the Soviet military intelligence (GRU) officer Oleg Penkovsky.[1]
Trial and exchange
Wynne and Penkovsky were tried in Moscow from 7 to 11 May 1963. Wynne was sentenced to eight years and Penkovsky to death.[1] In 1964 Wynne was exchanged in Berlin for the Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale (Konon Molody).[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1963: Moscow jails British 'spy', BBC On This Day, 11 May 1963.
- ↑ Briton in Spy Exchange Ends Barbadoes Holiday, New York Times, 2 July 1964.