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The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke and written by Tom O'Connor. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, and is based on the true story of a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to be a message conduit with Russian spy source Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze) in the 1960s. [3]
Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781849839297. Schecter, Jerrold L; Deriabin, Peter S; Penkovsky, Oleg V (1992). The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-19068-6.
Greville Maynard Wynne (19 March 1919 [1] – 28 February 1990) was a British engineer and businessman recruited by MI6 because of his frequent travel to Eastern Europe. He acted as a courier to transport top-secret information to London from the Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky.
One of Penkovsky’s contacts was a British civilian named Greville Wynne, who wrote an autobiography about his experiences. Review: In ‘The Courier,’ Cumberbatch is an everyman spy Skip to ...
In April 1961, Kisevalter became one of the case officers of GRU Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, who had volunteered to spy for the CIA and MI6, but in September of that year Kisevalter was relieved of that responsibility after it was reported to his superiors that he had gone to a London pub with a younger British case officer, gotten drunk, and ...
"Soviet Colonel Oleg Penkosky spied in the build-up to the gravest nuclear crisis of all time, when the world came close to annihilation." — Sean Pertwee's opening narration In 1960, Soviet Military Intelligence Officer Oleg Penkovsky passes a letter offering to share secrets with the U.S. Government to American students visiting Moscow , but ...
Gervase Cowell MBE (() 4 August 1926 – () 2 May 2000) was half of a British husband-and-wife intelligence team who handled Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet GRU military intelligence officer who provided the West with invaluable military secrets.
[1] [2] In Molody's biography of himself as the KGB illegal, Gordon Lonsdale (Spy: Twenty Years of Secret Service), he narrates the "legend" that he was from a Polish family from Lvov (Lviv) and two years younger than he really was (that is, Lonsdale was two years younger than Molody in the "legend" or backstory). Lonsdale in the "legend" had ...