Oleg Penkovsky
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title:
Oleg Penkovsky
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Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, codenamed Hero and Yoga was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky informed the United States and the United Kingdom about Soviet military secrets, including the appearance and footprint of Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile installations and the weakness of the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program. This information was decisive in allowing the US to recognize that the Soviets were p
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British spy in the USSR (1919–1963)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Penkovsky
date created:
2004-07-16T19:07:10Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T01:59:23Z
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