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    Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Russian: Олег Владимирович Пеньковский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed Hero (by the CIA) and Yoga (by MI6) was a...
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  • transport top-secret information to London from the Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky. Wynne and Penkovsky were both arrested by the KGB in November 1962, when some...
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  • Intelligence Service to be a message conduit with Russian spy source Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze) in the 1960s. Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley...
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    List of Eastern Bloc defectors List of KGB defectors Vitaly Nuykin Oleg Penkovsky "Heroes and Villains". MI6: A Century in the Shadows. Episode 2. 3 August...
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  • by the CIA. He had some involvement with Soviet intelligence Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, active in the 1960s, who had more direct relations with British MI-6...
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    Agency during the 1960s. The "Penkovsky Papers" were alleged to have been written by a Soviet GRU defector, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, but were in fact produced...
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    a third party or through resources not known to the field station. Oleg Penkovsky was a Soviet GRU colonel who served as a source to the United Kingdom...
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    best known for the roles of Walter Redlich in Nowhere in Africa and Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier. Merab Ninidze was born on 3 November 1965 in Tbilisi...
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    [page needed] Serov was removed from power in 1963 when his protégé Oleg Penkovsky was exposed as a double agent. Serov was stripped of his position, Communist...
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  • connections to American spy Oleg Penkovsky. He died in Moscow on 1 March 1971. During World War II American spy Colonel Oleg Penkovsky served as the personal...
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    Oleg Pavlov (1970–2018), Russian writer Oleg Pavlov (speed skater) (born 1966), Russian speed skater Oleg Penkovsky (1919–1963), Soviet colonel Oleg Perepelitsyn...
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  • betrayed two of its most important spies, Pyotr Semyonovich Popov and Oleg Penkovsky, that two UN-based Soviet intelligence officers who had volunteered...
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    joint operation with the American CIA, the MI6 recruited Colonel Oleg Penkovsky. Penkovsky ran for two years as a considerable success, providing several...
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  • may jointly operate an asset such as the joint U.S.–UK operation with Oleg Penkovsky. The allied officer may not actually provide access to his assets, but...
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  • station in Moscow but worked under the guise of a visa officer. When Oleg Penkovsky offered Soviet military secrets to MI6, she became the go-between. Outwardly...
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  • 1918 – Maurice Druon, French author and screenwriter (d. 2009) 1919 – Oleg Penkovsky, Russian colonel (d. 1963) 1920 – Eric Grant Yarrow, 3rd Baronet, English...
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    Osborn, then Chief of the SR (Soviet-Russian) Division, wrote regarding Oleg Penkovsky: "we have concluded that there is no possibility that this case represents...
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    GRU intelligence officer who defected to U.S. authorities in 1992. Oleg Penkovsky, a GRU officer who played an important role during the Cuban Missile...
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  • Robert Baer Ruth Fischer Yosef Amit Yuri Nosenko Oleg Penkovsky Vitaly Yurchenko Dmitri Polyakov Oleg Gordievsky Adolf Tolkachev Agnes Smedley Al Sarant...
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  • communications. Jeremy Duns stated in his 2013 book Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation: In 1952, an electronic...
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  • killed, while The Guardian reported in 1965, citing information from spy Oleg Penkovsky who had passed information to the West, that as many as 300 had died...
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    identification was made, in part, on the strength of reporting provided by Oleg Penkovsky, a double agent in the GRU working for the CIA and MI6. Although he...
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  • Victor Kravchenko, Vladimir Petrov, Peter Deriabin, Pawel Monat and Oleg Penkovsky of the GRU. Among Western officials who defected to the Soviet Union...
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  • Kondrashev. In April 1961, GRU colonel Oleg Penkovsky was recruited by the CIA and MI6 in London. Two weeks later, Penkovsky and his Moscow-based MI6 contact...
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  • ideological reasons, to service B (actually two B's, SIS and CIA), was Col. Oleg Penkovsky. Recruitment can be done through personal relationships, from casual...
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    Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-19068-6. OCLC 909016158. About Oleg Penkovsky. "Nonfiction Book Review: The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet...
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    Whitehall and the CIA. This was especially true when MI6 recruited Oleg Penkovsky, a GRU Colonel that led to the identification of MI6 officer George...
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  • information. Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet military intelligence colonel, who was a defector in place, was a joint US-UK espionage operation. Much of Penkovsky's product...
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  • waters, and this was later corroborated by information provided by spy Oleg Penkovsky. Three of the crewmen (reconnaissance officers Capt. Oscar Goforth,...
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  • Trần Ích Tắc Nguyễn Văn Trỗi Leonid Eitingon, during the Doctors' Plot Oleg Penkovsky, for providing GRU intelligence to the United Kingdom and the United...
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