WONDER IF RUSSIANS TRAPPED BRITON FOR SPY ECHANGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600280008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 27, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CHICAGa TRIBUNE
APR 2 7.1964
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S-`-range Ordeal Russian came up to him an Moscow the naval secrets,. and
perhaps a lot more.
shed Wynne if he know "any
mportant people,, in London. Molody's usefulness in col-
'
.
Makes a True Jo said he was going to Lon- lecting secrets vanished` with
arrest. But he was still
on himself in a few weeks and his
valuable property to his mas
Life i r1 l i e n shed Wynne, as a favor if he
ters a
. What had he told his cap
vould carry a small parcel, to
tows? And what had he learned,
BY ARTHUR VEYSEY he British people who were
even while under arrest, abouC
[London Bureau Chief] cting as his host. It :would
British counter-intelligence op-
[Chicago Tribune Press service] . elp so much in. facilitating his
erations? From questions put
April reacts rrangements.
to him, his sharp mind should
like a true life story of a. spy'' Red Spy Sentenced
sort out what Britain knew of
who came in from the cold- The Russian was named
the soviet spy system.
this strange experience of the leg Penkovsky. At the time
Russians Lacked Prisoner
British business man who e was director of the foreign
nearly died in a Russian prison. ection of the central commit-
But how to get him back?
His name is Greville Wynne.
A swap was the obvious solu-
He is 45 but looks 60 the effect eo for scientific research. But
tion-a trade like that between
of having become a pawn ill: or six years, in the 195.0's, he
Russia and the United States
-vicious cold-war espionage. ad been military attache in
Russian spy Col. Rudolph Abel
Wynne, who was exchanged urkey and then, at least; was
for American U-2 pilot Gary .
last week for a Russian spy, , member of the soviet intel-
Powers.
entered a hospital on a stretch- Hence net.
But the Russians had no
or here today. Physicians said Looking back, he was prob-
Briton as prisoner. If only
he was going thin a nervous bly still a spy member, and
someone could be arrested.
and physical reaction to the' n important one, that day in
strain of recent events. oscow when he sought out And there, in Moscow, ready
at hand, was Wynne. Could Pen
Wynne's business was arrang- ynne.
.kovsky lead him into a trap?
Greville Wynne
ing ? small exhibits for British
f i r m.s ..seeking to sell their
wares behind the iron curtain.
He traveled thru eastern and
central Europe with a big truck
fitted out as a display room.
He mot many persons. r
II He was in Moscow In the
early spring of 1961. One day
Three weeks earlier, the most
important Russian spy ever
aught in Britain had been sen-
tenced, in' London's Old Bailey
riininal court, to 25 years in
;rison. Ile was Konon Molody,
major in the soviet air force.
In London he had masqueraded
or five years as a Canadian
itizen, Gordon Lonsdale, deal-
r in anti-burglary devices. He
ived,in a fancy London, apart-
ent house galled the White
Ouse, a name which must
lave caused many chuckles in
oscow.
Melody had been a very ef-
ective spy. With the help of
wo British naval employes, he
ad winnowed submarine war-
are secrets out of the British'
nderseas research center. Two
mericans, Peter and Helen
roger, ran a secret radio sta-
ion for him in their London,
uburban home, passing on to
Wynne apparently carried the
parcel to London. In itself, the
parcel was harmless. But it
lead him into the hands of Brit-
ish intelligence. British agents
saw in Wynne .a new opening
into Moscow. They, according
to Wynne's evidence later at
his Moscow trial, urged him to
develop the contact with Pen-
kovsky..He said he agreed to
act as courier only after a
man he assumed to be chief
of British intelligence -- tho
never introduced by name.-
pleaded, with him as a British
patriot, and threatened to ruin
his business, if he refused.
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