Greville Wynne
Greville Maynard Wynne (born March 19, 1919 , † February 28, 1990 ) was a British secret service employee.
Life
Disguised as a businessman, Wynne controlled western spies in the Soviet Union . Soviet Colonel Oleg Penkowski was one of the spies he led . In 1962, Wynne was exposed, kidnapped by the Soviets in Budapest and kidnapped to Moscow . There he was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1963, but in 1964 he was exchanged for the Soviet agent Gordon Lonsdale in his home country .
He spent his twilight years on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca in Palma . There he worked as an author. He wrote an autobiography and several books dealing with the subject of espionage .
literature
- Axel Thorer: Mallorca - Lexicon of the island secrets , Hoffmann and Campe Hamburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-50006-6 , page 411.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wynne, Greville |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wynne, Greville Maynard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British secret service agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1919 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1990 |