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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Oleg_PenkovskyOleg Penkovsky - Wikipedia

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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 ...

   • Rank: Colonel
   • Alma mater: Frunze Military Academy

   • Spouse: Vera Gapanovich
   • Cause of death: Execution by shooting

2. www.britannica.com › Oleg-Vladimirovich-PenkovskyOleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky | Cold War, Spy, Intelligence

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   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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3. allthatsinteresting.com › oleg-penkovskyHow Soviet Spy Oleg Penkovsky Saved The World - All That's ...

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   Jul 24, 2020 · Learn how Oleg Penkovsky, a disillusioned GRU colonel, became a double agent and shared vital intelligence with the West during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Discover how his espionage helped avert a global catastrophe and cost him his life.

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5. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › true-story-behindThe True Story Behind ‘The Courier’ - Smithsonian Magazine

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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 ...

6. spyscape.com › article › oleg-penkovsky-the-cubanCuban Missile Crisis: The Untold Story of Russian Spy Oleg ...

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   Oleg Penkovsky was a Soviet spy who smuggled military secrets to the West during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. He may have fanned the flames of the crisis with false reports and a megalomaniac personality, according to new research by CIA historian Ben Fischer. Learn more about his life, role, and legacy in this article.

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8. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullPenkovsky, the Spy Who Tried to Destroy the World ...

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   Jul 16, 2021 · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) lore and popular culture tout Col. Oleg Penkovsky as “the spy who saved the world” during the Berlin and Cuban missile crises. In fact, his contribution to U.S. intelligence and policymaking is exaggerated, distorted, and in several instances falsified.

9. www.cia.gov › readingroom › collectionLt. Col. Oleg Penkovsky: Western Spy in Soviet GRU

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   This web page contains a collection of declassified documents related to Oleg Penkovsky, a high-ranking Soviet military intelligence officer who spied for the US and UK in the 1960s. The documents include his recruitment, debriefing, and operational reports, as well as his fate and motives.

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    Who was Oleg Penkovsky?

    • Without the senior Soviet military intelligence officer — or his active role as a double agent during that time — the Cold War could have gotten very hot. On April 23, 1919, Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky was born in Vladikavkaz, Russia. The future double agent’s father died that same year fighting against the communists in the Russian Revolution.

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    Was Oleg Penkovsky a double agent?

    • Now a legitimate double agent, Oleg Penkovsky spent the next two years providing his Western contacts with stolen top-secret documents, war plans, military manuals — and nuclear missile diagrams. These were routinely smuggled through contacts like Wynne and given the CIA codename “Ironbark.”

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    Did Oleg Penkovsky die?

    • Stuzhin & Cheredintzev/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Some believe Penkovsky was burned alive as Soviet punishment for his treasonous espionage. Officially, he was shot to death. For Oleg Penkovsky, however, his world-altering espionage work hastened his death.

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    How did Oleg Penkovsky help prevent nuclear war?

    • Though much of America’s knowledge of the Soviet nuclear missile installations in Cuba came from spy plane photographs, one man defied his country to bring America vital intelligence that helped prevent nuclear war. Wikimedia Commons Oleg Penkovsky’s father died in the Russian Revolution.

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