Talk:Oleg Penkovsky

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I think that this article should go more in depth with regard to the specific intelligence that Penkovsky passed on. I know, for example, that a major focus of the intelligence was missile-related. But as the article states, he brought a wealth of information which I believe we should include 68.106.99.114 03:19, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

____ I had to edit some of this, which was seriously NPOV and mocking western intelligence services and Penkovsky's motivation for becoming a spy.

Spies get pretty complicated pretty fast... Penkovskiy is now widely believed to have been a plant. Lonsdale is aka Rudolph Abel aka Konan Trofimovich Molodiy (all believed to be pseudonyms), who ran Harry Houghton (cyptonym Shah) at the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment, before Houghton got busted in 1960. This exposed Molodiy, which exposed Helen & Peter Kroger, pseudonyms of atomic spies Lona & Morris Cohen, sought by FBI since the '50s... They were known via VENONA (aka BRIDE), which also revealled the Rosenbergs had little to do with exposing the Bomb to the Sovs... VENONA was first broken by Armed Forces Security Agency cryppie Meredith Gardner, & the break was immediately revealled to the Sovs by William W. Weisband, who had penetrated ASA... Armed Forces Security Agency is predecessor to NSA, which was recently revealled to be back in the habit of intercepting civil communications, which it's reputedly been doing since the '80s via software CARNIVORE... Don't you feel so much safer now? Trekphiler 09:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Sounds like a mess of conspiracy theories to me. Shadowrun 21:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, exactly.Biophys (talk) 00:24, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not very funny end for a spy.

In the "Aquarium" book written by GRU defector to Britain Vladimir Rezun, he said he saw a black and white film where Oleg Penkovsky was burned alive by pushing him into a cemetery crematorium while tied to a strecher. 213.178.109.36 11:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC)