Penkovsky was a colonel in the gru soviet military intelligence and the highest level soviet officer to spy for the united states or great britain up to that time. Thus ended oleg penkovskys career of spying for the united states and great britain. He is an experienced and formidable military strategist, as well as a classical scholar with a deep knowledge of military history. Major talked about intelligence gathering during the cuban missile crisis and the interrogation of col. Oleg vladimirovich penkovsky, senior soviet military intelligence officer who was convicted of spying for the united kingdom and the united states. The case of oleg penkovsky in their own highly bizarre fashion, these two books represent what seems to be the first public encounter, via the literary confrontation of its agents, between the. It is 50 years today since soviet military intelligence officer oleg penkovsky was. How a soviet colonel changed the course of the cold war. Colonel oleg penkovsky, a soviet military intelligence officer, passed along vital espionage about soviet missile systemsincluding technical manualsto. A colonel in soviet military intelligence, oleg penkovsky, was working for them as an agentinplace, photographing thousands of topsecret documents with a miniature camera, and delivering the resulting microfilm in disguised packs of cigarettes and boxes of sweets to chisholms wife janet. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, the times does. The russian who spied for the west, doubleday, new york, 1966. They focused on human intelligence and the impact that the.
Gervase cowell, who has died aged 73, has a place in espionage history as a member of the husbandandwife team from the british secret intelligence service. This is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. This explosive book records the secret life and adventures of one the greatest spies of the 20th centuryoleg penkovskiyand reads with the excitement of the greatest of suspense novels. The spy who saved the worldthen tried to destroy it. The case of oleg penkovsky 19 nov 1965 the spectator. Carnets dun agent secret by penkovsky, oleg and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. As a top ranking russian officer, penkovsky sank into the depths and rose to the heights of international intrigue.
The capture and execution of colonel penkovsky, 1963. He was probably the wests most valuable double agent during the cold war. Oleg vladimirovich penkovsky soviet officer britannica. The penkovsky papers fontana books oleg penkovsky on. Former kgb major general oleg kalugin does not once mention penkovsky in his comprehensive book. Kgb defector vladimir sakharov suggests penkovsky was genuine, saying, i knew about the ongoing kgb reorganization precipitated by oleg penkovsky s case and yuri nosenkos defection. The book was commissioned by the central intelligence agency see howard hunt, everette. Meet the russian spy who saved the world from disaster during the cuban missile crisisand.
10 868 300 467 324 893 552 534 1372 570 1279 575 457 168 1350 1667 1610 1350 516 1170 78 121 1148 1538 1364 478 388 860 1601 1522 879 1347 1160 97 377 528 1278 833 865