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Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Пенько́вский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed Hero (by the CIA) and Yoga (by MI6) [1] was a Soviet military intelligence colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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.
When Oleg Penkovsky offered Soviet military secrets to MI6, she became the go-between. Outwardly, Janet was an ordinary mother of four children. She would meet Penkovsky in a local park and he would offer what appeared to be sweets, but were actually disguised documents containing military secrets about the Soviet nuclear weapons arsenal.
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.
Olesya Taylor and her 12-year-old daughter Olivia were among the 67 people who died in the D.C. plane crash on Jan. 29. Friend Olga Konopelko, who spoke with Olesya shortly before the doomed ...
Sheinelle Jones has a big family both on and off the Today show.. Born in 1978 to parents Sheila Kinnard and Judge C. Darnell Jones, who are divorced, Sheinelle is one of five siblings, two of ...
During World War II American spy Colonel Oleg Penkovsky served as the personal liaison officer for Varentsov. [3] At some point he allegedly said that Penkovsky was like a son to him. [6] It is disputed exactly how close Varentsov was to Penkovsky, but it is widely acknowledged that Varentsov had helped Penkovsky in his career. [7]
In 2010 Stephen Wampler decided to push the limits to raise awareness of disabled people and became the first person with Cerebral Palsy to climb Yosemite's El Capitan.The ascent took him six days ...