WYNNE REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600280012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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7 i JE REUNITED
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Briton Traded for Soviet Sp
Says Little of Ordeal
rating in prison,. and his treat-
ment in. a Moscow prison.' He
added nothing to what is known
about his case.
'I heel as I Look'
He said he could not conn-
ment at this time on having
pleaded guilty at his trial.
"They treated nee according
,to how they felt at the mo-
,ment," he said. "Just say that
I feel as I look."
Mr. Wynne would not elabo-
rate, Asked how he, thought he
looked, he replied, running a
'hand over his prison cropped
'hair, "You will have to judge
for yourselves." '
He said he had not been'told
he was going home ' when he
was taken from prison yester.
day. "Then," he added, "I found
myself in an airplane' and I was
home, Mr. Wynne gave crypti
answers to questions about hi
in the garden of his Chelse
ences, at the airport and late
weapons.
particularly its underwate
mind of a ring that obtaine
once writer. He was serving
son of a prominent Soviet sci
identified by the British polic
and East Germany.
? don Arnold Lonsdale a fe
and 12-year-old son.
a joyful reunion with his wif
prisonment on charges. of esplo
Wynne, a British businessma
thin and tired, Greville
By SYDNEY GRUSON
Special to The New York Times
from his cell in a Birmingham!
prison yesterday and flown se-I
security officer:: drove the Brit-
.,.on to the Necrstrlsse crossing
point early this morning. Brit-l
ish officers drove the Russian,
The two niens luggage also;
was exchanged. ? .
Russians Made Offer
The Foreign Office, in a State-
ment, said it had been informed
by the Russians April 7 that
they were willing to release,
'Mr. Wynne provided Mr. Lons-
dale was freed.
"The Government recently
learned that Mr. Wynne's phys-
ical condition has seriously de-
teriorated," the statement said.,
"Without prejudice to -the views
pressed abqut tltg procedure
followed with regard to
Wynne's arrest and trial and to
the guilt of Lonsdale, they con-
sider that in this exceptional
case humanitarian motives
should predmliinate."
Mr: Wynne, who traveled ex-
tensively in Eastern Europe as
managing director of Mobile
Exhibitions, Ltd., was arrested
in Budapest Nov. 2, 1962, hand-
ed over to' the Russians and
tried before a military court.
Confession by Russian
Oleg V. Penkovsky, a 44-
year-old Soviet scientific work-
er, was accused with him, Mr.
Z''cnlcovsky was shot after hav-
ish and United. States intelli-
gence services.
Lonsdale exchange were re-
ceived almost immediately aft-
er the Briton came into the,
Russians' ' custody, 20 months
The Government decided to'ro
reject them because, it was said, p
"this would make things too'
easy for the Russians, who
could arrest an innocent man
any time a Soviet spy was
caught'"'
Mr: Wynne was described by
one official as a "comparative-
ly Innocentman" ;why-"gotf into
Dru..wia i'reea in ieai for 6oviet 6py
Associated Press Cablephoto
reville Wynne lands at London Airport after flight from
Vest Berlin. The British businessman, sentenced to eight
>,ars' imprisonment by the Soviet Union last May; was ex-
fanged in Berlin for Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, Soviet spy.
fringes of espionage," prob,
ly by passing on bits of in l ::
oration that he picked upl
out the' Soviet economy while
iducting his business in East
Europe.
he official insisted that Mr.
mne was "'not one of the;
meaning a member of
espionage services. "If he been," the,-.official added
duty would' have been ton
and, if neebssary, to dte in
ion '~ 1
Lonsdale, who was serving
l''a 2.5-year prison pentence
in Britain as Soviet agent.
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