TELLS HOW RED HELPED WEST AVERT A-WAR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400110019-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
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JOURNAL AMERICAN
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dells How Red
Helped West
CPYRGHT Avert A-Nar
Sickened by e intrigues 01
top Soviet officials and fearful
that Nikita Khrushchev would;
touch off a nuclear war, e'
senior officer of Soviet Militar.';
Intelligence twice helped the
West ward off war.
The role played by Col. Oleg
Penkovsky, Russian war hero;
and Soviet Intelligence officerl,
was revealed today by a Brit-,
ish.busin essin an, Grevillc'
Wynne. Col. Penkovsky. is be-
lieved to be dead.
Mr. Wynne, co-defendant
when Penkovsky was arrested
'tried and convicted of espion-
age in Russia in 1963, spoke at
a press conference marking the
release of the "Penkovsky
Papers," published by Double-
day & Co.
"It it had not been for Pen-
.kovsky, you would have had
more than a blackout in your
city," Mr. Wynne declared.
CONTACT WITH WEST
Col. Penkovsky, using M4r.
Wynne to establish contacts
with the British and American
Intelligence services, transmit-
ted some 5,000 important pa-
pers to, the West during the
1960 Berlin crisis and the 1981;
Cuban missile crisis.
Because Penkovsky leaked thei
Information on Soviet moves to'
the Western powers, Khrush-
chev was forced to back down
in both crises, Mr. Wynne said.
The incidents are included
In the book, "Penkovsky's Pa-
pars," a compilation of trans-
lated manuscripts prepared by:
the Colonel and, smuggled out,
of Russia. Penkovsky reportedly)
died before a firing squad on'
May 5, 1963.
A completely new version of
the U-2 spy Incident in which
American pilot Francis Gary
Powers was brought down over
Russia In 1960 was provided, by
the papers.
,Col, Penkovsky reported:
"One of the 14 missiles fired
at Powers' plane shot down a
Soviet MIG-19 which went up
to pursue Powers, he wrote,
and the Russian pilot, a junior
lieutenant, perished.
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