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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]
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 ...
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.
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.
The Courier (2020) – historical spy film about Greville Wynne, a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to deliver messages to secret agent Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s [31] [32]
Oleg Penkovsky at his espionage trial in Moscow in 1963, where he was accused of leaking Soviet state secrets to the West. (Bettmann Archive via Getty Images) (Bettmann Archive)
A former United States Postal Service employee in Charlotte, North Carolina was sentenced to prison for stealing more than $20 million worth of checks, federal authorities said. Nakedra Shannon ...
He had been a courier for information from Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel in the GRU—Russian secret military intelligence. Wynne was the subject of a show trial in Moscow in May 1963 and sentenced to eight years in prison; Penkovsky received the death sentence. [101]