Greville Wynne

GREVILLE WYNNE d1990. British engineer and businessman who was recruited by MI6 because of his frequent travel to Eastern Europe. He became known for acting as a courier to transport top-secret information to London from Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky. He and Penkovsky were both arrested by the KGB in October 1962, at a moment when some of the information their endeavours produced was instrumental to the West during the Cuban Missile Crisis and convicted of espionage. Penkovsky was tried and executed the following year and Wynne sentenced to eight years at Lubyanka Russia prison. Struggling with deteriorating health, he was released in 1964 after the British arranged an exchange of Soviet spy Konon Molody. He died in London aged 70 on February 28th 1990