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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 ...
Sonya Cassidy (born 1986 or 1987) [1] is a British actress. Her credits include The Tudors (2009), The Paradise (2012), Vera (2012–2014), The Great Fire (2014), Survivor (2015), Olympus (2015), Humans (2016), The Woman in White (2018), Lodge 49 (2019), The Last Kingdom (2022), The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022), The Hunt For Raoul Moat (2023), and season 3 of Reacher (2025).
"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.
Justin Hartley's CBS series Tracker was tasked with writing off a major cast member after a surprising exit — but how did the show execute the onscreen change? During the season 2 premiere ...