LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Colonel Oleg Penkovsky in dress uniform. (CIA)
2. First contact: the typed letter Oleg Penkovsky handed to American student Eldon Ray Cox on 12 August 1960. (CIA)
3. The team: Mike Stokes, Harry Shergold, Joe Bulik and George Kisevalter in the Mount Royal, London. (CIA)
4. Penkovsky, left, toasts CIA officer Joe Bulik in the Mount Royal Hotel in London. (CIA)
5. Harry Shergold listens intently as Penkovsky expands on a point during a debriefi ng. (CIA)
6. Penkovsky poses in the uniform of a US colonel, left, and a British colonel, right: prestige and acceptance were extremely important to him.
(CIA)
7. Military passes used by Oleg Penkovsky, 1961: top, his pass for the General Staff and Ministry of Defence buildings in Moscow; bottom, his pass for
the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence. (CIA)
8. Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev examines the wreckage of Gary Powers’s U-2. (CIA)
9. East German workers reinforce the new wall dividing the city near the Brandenburg Gate. Bunkers, spotlights and firing and observation posts were
also added. (NARA/IPS)
10. Behind the Wall . . . East German troops and police behind the new frontier. (NARA)
11. SS-4 on parade in Red Square, Moscow. In combination with the manuals provided by Penkovsky, CIA analysts determined that these missiles were on
Cuba. (National Security Archive)
12. Crisis trigger: a Soviet truck convoy deploying missiles near San Cristóbal, Cuba, on 14 October 1962. This photograph, taken by Major
Richard ‘Steve’ Heyser in a U-2, was the first picture that proved Russian missiles were being placed on Cuba. (The image is dated the day it was printed.) (US Air Force)
13. A map of Cuba showing US targets that Soviet intermediate- and medium-range ballistic missiles could reach. (CIA)
14. 18 October 1962: Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, on the right of the sofa, meets with Kennedy in the White House and tells him the Soviet
Union has no offensive weapons on Cuba. But Kennedy has already seen the U-2 photographs, so knows this is untrue. (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
15. CIA director Allen Dulles. (NARA)
16. Following the Bay of Pigs disaster, Kennedy replaced Dulles with John McCone, here being sworn in. McCone became convinced the Soviets had
offensive weapons on Cuba – and was proven right. (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
17. EXCOMM meeting, 29 October 1962. Kennedy and his advisers, including John McCone, try to hammer out a solution to the crisis. (John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and Museum)
18. CIA document outlining US intelligence’s perceptions of the Soviet strategy for nuclear war – including the possibility of preemptive
strikes – from July 1962. Note the stamp ‘IRONBARK’ in the top-left corner, indicating that it used intelligence from Oleg Penkovsky. (CIA)
19. Janet Chisholm – codenamed ANNE by MI6 – with her children in a Moscow park in 1961. Penkovsky would approach her and place microfilm
hidden in a box of sweets in her youngest child’s pram. (Janie Chisholm)
20. Ruari Chisholm, MI6’s head of station in Moscow, Janet Chisholm (right) and their daughter Janie in Moscow, 1961. (Janie Chisholm)
21. 2 July 1962 – KGB surveillance cameras capture Greville Wynne arriving in Moscow. The man picking him up, seen bending down in the centre
image, is Oleg Penkovsky. By now the KGB had known Penkovsky was a traitor for at least six months, and yet he was still photographing highly classified documents and passing them to MI6 and the
CIA. (KGB)
22. KGB surveillance photograph of Richard Jacob unloading Penkovsky’s dead drop, 3 November 1962. (KGB)
23. A KGB surveillance still of Greville Wynne, right, on 12 April 1961, as he prepared to fly back to London from Moscow. The KGB probably
photographed everyone coming in and out of the country systematically. (KGB)
24. Cool head: MI6 officer Gervase Cowell received the emergency signal that a nuclear strike was imminent, but decided to ignore it. (KGB)
25. This image is from KGB surveillance footage of Gervase Cowell having his passport checked at Moscow airport. The Cowells were expelled from the
Soviet Union in May 1963. (KGB)
26. A KGB film shows Alexander Zagvozdin, who was one of the KGB officers investigating Penkovsky. (KGB)
27. A KGB illustration showing how they conducted surveillance on Oleg Penkovsky’s apartment in Moscow: an observation post across the river, a
camera in the balcony, outside his window, and a peephole camera looking down on him from the flat above. (KGB)
28. Sergei Kondrashev was George Blake’s controller in London; on becoming chief of the KGB’s disinformation division in 1968, he was
apparently informed that Oleg Penkovsky had been betrayed by an agent in the West. (KGB)
29. Felicity Stuart, Ruari Chishom’s assistant in Moscow during the early stages of the operation. She was named in the trial. (KGB)
30. A photograph of Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow taken by Felicity Stuart from her flat during the Penkovsky operation: Penkovsky would mark
telephone pole 35 in the street to tell his handlers they should clear his dead drop on Pushkinskaya Street. (Felicity Stuart)
31. Purported KGB still of Penkovsky operating his radio transmitter to receive coded messages. This image seems to have been filmed from within
Penkovsky’s flat, suggesting the scene was reconstructed after his arrest. (KGB)
32. Purported KGB surveillance footage of Penkovsky photographing a document with a Minox camera, taken from the command post across the river from
his flat. (KGB)
33. Espionage paraphernalia used by Oleg Penkovsky and shown at his trial in Moscow. Pictured are three Minox cameras, their cases, several rolls of
microfilm and a fake pack of cigarettes, which Penkovsky used to pass material to Janet Chisholm. (Bettmann CORBIS/SCANPIX)
34. High treason: Greville Wynne, top, and Oleg Penkovsky, below, both in centre of frame, on trial in Moscow, May 1963. (Bettmann
CORBIS/SCANPIX)
35. ‘Don’t forget the fruit gums, Mum!’: Giles’s cartoon in the Daily Express. (Daily Express)
36. The funeral of British traitor Guy Burgess, September 1963, Moscow. From left, Reuters correspondent John Miller; British Communist George Hanna;
Daily Telegraph correspondent Jeremy Wolfenden; Donald Maclean (partially obscured); and Burgess’s brother Nigel (in glasses in front). (John Miller)
37. Jeremy Wolfenden, left, hands over as Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow to John Miller, previously with Reuters, on the steps of
the British Embassy, 1964. Wolfenden drank himself to death a year later, aged 31. (John Miller)
38. Journalist, drinker and spy: Jeremy Wolfenden. (Daily Telegraph)