TELLS HOW RED HELPED WEST AVERT A-WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600250050-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 50
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NEW YORK
JOURNAL AMERICAN
Approved For Release 2001/07/26 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000
4ells How Red STATINTL
Helped West
Avert AaWar
Sickened by the intrigues of
top Soviet officials and fearfu;
that Niltita Khrushchev would
touch off a nuclear war, e
senior officer of Soviet Militai'f .
Intelligence twice helped the
West ward off war.
The role played by Col. Ole,:
Penkovsky, Russian war hero
and Soviet Intelligence officer,
was revealed today by a Brit-
ish businessman, Grevillr
Wynne. Col. Penkovsky is be-
lieved to be'dead.
Mr. Wynne, co-defendant;
when Penkovsky was arrested
tried and convicted of espion-I
age in Russia in 1963, spoke at'
a press conference marking the
release of the "Penkovsky
Papers," published by Double-
day & Co.
"If 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 Mr.
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 1961
Cuban missile crisis.
Because Penkovsky leaked the
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-
pers," a compilation of trans-
lated manuscripts prepared by
the Colonel and ' smuggled out
of Russia. Penkovsky reportedly
died before a firing squad onj
May 5, 1963. 1
A cpmpletely 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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