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YOGA, HERO. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Russian: Олег Владимирович Пеньковский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed Hero (by the CIA) and Yoga (by MI6) [1] was a Soviet military intelligence ( GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky informed the United States and the United Kingdom about ...
Jul 24, 2020 · Updated February 27, 2024. In 1962, Soviet Colonel Oleg Penkovsky defied his country to save the world from nuclear war — then paid for his heroism with his life. In October 1962, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were on the brink of nuclear war after Soviet nuclear missiles were spotted in Cuba. While President Kennedy and Soviet Prime Minister Nikita ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky was a senior Soviet military intelligence officer who was convicted of spying for the United Kingdom and the United States. He was probably the West’s most valuable double agent during the Cold War. Penkovsky joined the Soviet Red Army in 1937 and served as an artillery.
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Mar 18, 2021 · Wynne agreed, and during his visit to Moscow the following month he wound up connecting with Oleg Penkovsky, a lieutenant colonel in the GRU (the Soviet Union’s foreign-intelligence agency) who ...
Russian Lt. Col. Oleg Penkovsky, portrayed by actor Merab Ninidze in the Benjamin Cumberbatch thriller The Courier (2020), is hailed as ‘the spy who saved the world’, the West’s most valuable Cold War double agent, and the man who risked his life to stop a nuclear war between superpowers. New research, however, suggests Penkovsky may have ...
Nov 3, 2013 · Penkovsky’s motivation was probably sheer desperation. He knew he would be executed for treason—as he soon was—and so this was a last-ditch attempt to take the Soviet Union down with him, by ...
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The recruitment of a well-placed spy, in this case a high-ranking Soviet military intelligence officer, lessened the tensions of the Cold War by providing information on the intentions, strength, and technological advancement of the Soviet Union. At the same time, the enormous risks for the spy himself became evident in the fate of Penkovsky ...
