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Now, tbe first few daysuror, not only inwhat vade bin tick; what he wanted us to do 'for him;was willing to do for us; but to analyze ln the greatestfroa his own notes, what all tbe littleand everything were, on soae one hundredsoae typed, some written, of alsselery. Tbe peoplethis subjectcientific viewpointwould of course, analyze everything that thay neededthemselves, but we could at least contribute thisof expounding and extrapolating every abbreviationclear, but which he, having Inserted, knew about ashe aeant when he put lt ln. Thisonumentaldon't rememberree between London andiggling car,as yapping froa BuBslan asissile would or wouldn't do, and Bulikwith the others, which was ln English, we never hadto lift our
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flap with the British, but we managed to luck out. We took along two large suitcases, handhould say, much larger than this, with Mohawk, battery operated recorders, just ln case we vould need them. Unfortunately, they are albatrosses,
because we had no place to leave them, except. Eabasay. Therefore, in the hotel room, someone had to be with those damn pieces of equipment. On travelling, we took thea along, foil, when we hit Birminghamunday night, the Scotsmen came in With some very incongroua expressions which sounded like "whir oh whir, we are ine had hit the tail end of the world ln England. This part of the town, the center part, is still on direct current. ave no place toonverter at midnight on Sunday and the tape recorder can't work.
So, we said, "however, for three thousand miles we have carried those damned instruments of ours on battery. Let's see if they can pick up the slack." So we ran eight reels, and they
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all'cane out. Ono fron one machine, one from theto cover our four hour meeting. So, evenwas worthwhile taking thea along on the trip, theyat the time, we were glad vhen ve realised vethis, not only overtly, but vltb superbequipment. That'side light, andeverything be bad in his notes ve had one of oura very heavily and veil decorated one, even though hereports offleer. ould love to mention his name becauseone of the nost distinguished reportsnovname ie Leu, McCoy. He had spent time st CapeChurchill, nil the nlr foroe bases, he is
quite an adept and knowledgeable person ln anything relating to aisselery. He came out to give ua all the requirements and processed the material as faat as he could. The British were so Impressed by blm that they permitted him to handle all the British requirements. They threw up their hands, be vas so auch bead and shoulders above thea that they accepted anything that be vould. Of course ve vould need hla, not, at the meeting vith PENKOVSKIY but after the meetings. We tried to transcribe the tapes, but it vas totally Impossible. When youeeting of four hours,ay, lt vould take six months to finish all the tapes after ve brought themecause tbey vere Just catching up ahead of us all the time.
Well, amongst other things that he told us about, all of tbe associstiona ve reviewed carefully vith Marshall VARENTSOV. We beean. to tabulate aim unbelievable accessablllty to highly
classified documents. First, heomplete entree to the
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fund of GRU, vhich is the classified librarytheir Intelligence organ. Be could read anything ontbe headquarters of Marshallvns
there na his adjutant, about toeneral, would Just unlock tbe room and saynov you axeook in Russian from the English on missilery, that's vhy you have nil these research privileges. Please be ay guest. Don't take then out, but read anything here." So we Were getting a
pretty good idea of vhat their XCBM's oould do, vhere they vere, -about the Cuba situation and vhat their missilery there oould do, almost straight froa the horses south. In fact, thereublicationlllore complete reference to it later) called the Strategic Missile Bulletin, on ICBM's froashop. MOSKALENKO st that tlae had tvo hate. One he vas on the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense. Beaeaber, they have only one Ministry, tbe Aray, Mary, Air force are all under lt. The first hat vas, he vaa tbe first deputy to the Minister for all nev technical developments snd means of aass destruction and so forth. Tbe second hat vas at the same tlae ho vas the Commander in Chief of all Strategic Miasile Forces. That is, all the aanpover and officers and so oo, vho are scattered st the various ICBM sites. Tou knov already vhatposition vas, but they are olosely related. In fact, outside of the tremendously complicated geoastric and geophysical machinery and computation for guidance systems, the ICBM Russian style ia an expanded, enlarged practical alaslie, and probably is ln all countries. We didn't get vet into spsoe technology thank God, because thst vould have been just too much to svallov.
^Anyvsy, next ve bad brought over vith courier aervioe suitcases full of photographs. eaumaber ve had covered something'available photographs froa all tbe assorted files of CIA, MIS and MX6. These vere all categorized by countries, vhen last seen and he identified aaybe*'7 toer cent of theae people. Tbe total number of GRU offlcera ln detail, depleted, described. Identified froa pbotosrsprts,as somewhere over one thousand. Tbe KGB numbers were less, some tvo or three hundred. Of oourse, the rosters of everyone vho vas ever in Turkey before him, during bis time and currently vaa like knowing his five fingers; not to mention everyone on tbe India, Pakistan, Ceylon, also Iranian and Egyptian desks, and the field stations; as well as everyone ln London, and Inter as you will see, everyone in Paris. That was Very, very significant. This la of courseX viewpoint, but hia
greatest contribution, aa lt became sore and acre developed came strictly ln the PI
alright. During thle "purTod ve have consolidated all possible ways of racontacting hint. We knev he vas going to cone back here. Becheduled return, knev there vouldery short Interval. We knev he vae cooing back per schedule to Londonelegation, nlone, for the purpose ofrogramater delegation. Thin gave blm even acre latitude and freedom of notion, and thle time he came very heavily reinforced vith influence from back home. He vas called ln by Army Oenernl SEROY, the Chief of Gnu, nnd,entioned before, tbe former Chief of KCB, and told "penkovskiy, ay vlfe and daughter arerip tonov you vlll be there nt the same time. Pleaseeather eye open for them and make sure there la noTes sir, be glad to do lt." Naturally, the Soviet Embassy gunned up evennr waiting for thea vhen tbey arrived, but penkovskiy did not. Be took thea to the hotel, he vlned thea nnd dined thea. He did everything, except net overdid lt. He began to play "footsie" vith Svetlana,agged him ony kneee almost. This is not the girl for you. Let ua not complicate life." "But sbe likes lt." "Look, PEKXOVSKTThere are others. Not this one." anyway, I'm not going to get into that phase of life. He ia very human, very normal, be likes toit. Anyvay, heerrific hit vith Mrs. and kiss SSROV and loaned then money because thay ran out. Be made sure tbey ran out. hey shipped all kinds of stuff home, heavy freight, by boat that vas parked somewhere
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in the Thames River, auchwinging artistic jsiort of affair for the garden. emember personallyut sventer for the General for the General to play tennis vith on the courts at his dacha and then ve ventbopping list vhlch was out of this vorld. Be saideed help. This Is operational." But the llet, the list vnsiece of paper. Itook. ook. And neatly depictedero page vere items for vho for vhat. In the middle of it
outlinesoot, bis wife* foot, his daughter's foot, hisfoot. Who hnoss these Englishhe foot. e had to get shoes, sandals and so on In sll sizes endto aatoh that. Heuit so vs aaaaured Mike Stokes vho looks soaetblng like hla, back toittle shorter and he vent to Oxford Street anduit for pknkovskiy. But the list, finally, i'a not going to describe the details. They are too unbelievable, but there vereuitcases of about That aeans veil, hov is he going to take ito problem. Well, here la hov he did it. WYNNE took them ln on hla official trip, betveen meetings. Bs set WYNNE at the airport. He had every pass in the book and vhen tbe custom officials vere there, he said "Don't stand there like apes. Thisuest of the Soviet Union. Help hla carry them." They vere all carrying thea into hie car. So aa he delivered WYNNE to his hotel* passing messages froa us and giving hla cachets in ths car, he drives off vith tbe rest of the baggage, to bis home, for further distribution thsre. WYNNE vould Immediately proceed to the British Embassy, vithout sven vashing bis face and hands, and his ovn personal little baggage there they could search to the hearts content, be vould deliver everything, he vould be clean, and on the return trip the meaaagea vould coae back in reverse. So that vaa ideal. That is hov he got them In. No problem.
Well, vhat did vs get. We got, for about SSeautiful rocket, for the birthday vhleh vaa actually onh of September, although the birthday vaa on tbe 3rd. Tou see, youalendar switch aboutays. VARENTSOV vas about to get an Order of Lenin, already he did have tbe title of Chief Marshall, onh birthday, vhloh io vary customary for high-ranking people In Russia;ead to you from this order vhlch happened to penkovskiy'h great uncle. .For thia day and occasion PENKOVSKIY vas nominated to be tbe major domao. He got tbe singers, be got the dancers, he got tbe vhole list of guests and naturally be had to present hia ovn gifts too. old watch and he lmxedlatolj wanted it engraved "To dear Sergey Sergeyevlch froa the Penkovskiy's". aid we oould not
engrave tMs lr. London. Wo havo no cleared ongravrr. Wn could do that In Mosoov. He argued "What kind of an Intelligence eervice, you can't even put thle on?" "No!" That be had to take back hlaaelf. The big rocketilverou press buttonsigarettes comelgare coae out nnd light. It's one of those sort of things. Zt vaa very appropriate for VABXNTSOV, but tbe piece do resistance vns sonething else and this gaveSS problem. Eeottle of the rarest Napoleon-type brandy oognaa. exactly bravedears ago on the dnte of his birth. Oh vithears ve could do, buthatittle wore difficult. ase officers, vhich lt took, outside of us for support, to buy all theee things every day; they vere cosing hone vith buckets of assorted aaterial; vith the help of TSS on the label ve0 year old bottle. This bottle paid for Itself anny, many times over, during that cele radlon forh birthday. One of tbe first guests to enter vaa Rodlon MALIN0VSKIY,Hinleter of Defense. No one vas there vith less than tvo stars. One poor little
vaa there vith tvo stars, vho has long since retired for all times sake, KARI0PILLI vith three. Chief of Staff of the Sockets, this,that, Marahalls. Proa the Central Committee side CHUBAYEV, the poor peoples representative nt the Central Committee level, vhoacha0he poor comaunlete even bragged about lt at the party and got drunk. MALI NOV SKITee-line for this cognac, "Thle is better than ournd he vns slopping up our cognac like mad. At the same tine be vas predicting, depicting every thing he vas going to do vith the Berlin Wall; hov be vas going to do lt and hov the Americana vould avallev that pill, and be vas prepared to make usecond pill if KHRUSHCHEV van ted toifferent button} namely the second pill vould have been toeparate peace treaty vith East Germany, by prolonging the maneuvers of the Warsav Pact nations by three moreen strong. Hovever, IHR0SHCHEV himself, paseed that one up. Tbe first one, vhen lt vas reported, ve told then exactly hov be vas going to do this, hov ve could atop.itlock, probably for the cost0 vorth of gas, but it took
Washington throe months of deliberation before ve could give any eert of definitive auurver for vhat to do in Berlin. All kinds of speculation about future nuolear vara vas discussed at this meeting. They felt completely free, oiled vith our cognac didn'thing, fortunately, ao veoaplete report on this. This high level access, other than the tre-aandous amount of documentary aaterlal vas vhat vas really helping us out all tbe tlae and he vas delivering them to us ln cachets.
Nov, at thia second go-round of meetings ve bad tothe vhole operation ln terse of secure futurethe receipt of this Invaluable aaterlal that vas novvolume. First of all, veinnox camera entleman in the Ninth Bridge, an excellentBritish aore or leaa froze the "f" atop atouoff of it; sore or less froze on the {fiftiethemplate in centlaetershere the brovnthe eye piece vouldare in focus. Zt
takes practice but you are on focus, you can throe avay the chain, whichecurity risk if you are going to clandestinely carry the Minnox, the aore chains you have the sore complications you have, so you eliminate three variables. All the training then took place on the steadiness of hand and estimation of light.esult,the man produced aoaethlngerfect frames.ase had tvo bottom lines cut off. Zt beoauee ao hairy vith
this accuracy, ve wondered "could lt be possible the KGB ia
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doing thia." So at one of the aeetlnga, after we got the cachets, in London, we threw his oae Jus likeCatch" - "Take picture." "Where" "That vail, that sap, this'sap, thise vere brewing tea nov. Every four o'clock ia tea. We are ln Britain you knov. We are taking time out for tea, and you have this done. Zn aboutinutes vith the steadiest of band, "I'a done." He even squeezed outrames0 frame rollinnox. Tou can do this, but you have to have an awful lot of practice. Be threw It back to us. Tomorrov ve vlll see. The next day in gloss prints this big tbe Ninth Bridge brought them
developed. Out of this world. Out of thle vorld,hotographers masterpiece. Veil, obviously bs ean photograph. Whatever he learned, be learned well. o not mean be ean runinds of photographic apparatus, but the one be knows, he knows. The ease thing with the Russian version of the one tine pad We practiced vith thea. This Is all done by us. We had all the cocao support in tbe vorld. ember in Frankfurt gave us teat messages. He vould finally break it out. Haturally, be had the "yoith the Russian oodlng-decoding system, one time pad, and vith lt in thle Interval be came backittle typewritten message. Zn lt bs had gumsiil up one vord, onene letter. Begge said "mosb" instead of "naoh" vhlch means nothing really, beginning or our number one. aid "Becareful vith ournstead ofn yoTee, I'll not do lt ngaln." Tho rent vas perfect. hought "Well, gosh dnrnlt, vho le breaking this code." Again, lt took ae three hours to make two different type messages, old book, new book. It is tbe difference of one group. Again, ve are brewing tea. ald "Hereest pad. Break theseninutes be bad both messages done. Perfect. The nanechnician. So in one phase of coesto, in one phase ofthe sen vas absolutely superp. I've never seen one like lt and never expect to again in my life. But, vith hiscapability (and hehree Mlnnoxe vould send one ln for repairs on occasion to us viaight as veil be bung for one ns veil as threeand vhy change cachets in the middle of nn important operation) when be would go into tbe CSU room, ask for quiet, "don't disturbe looked for certain thinga of Interest.ibliography. onder vhat kind." Looks it over. In about tvo or three frame* heibliography of every document stolen froa the United States, and the correct title, right down tbe line, solitary manuals, all other kind of doc ua onto thatlaaslf led vnlue. The hell vith the documents. They are ours anyway, but nov ve knov vhat's been stolen from us. The same froa the French, Th* British, thehe bibliography. Hov many frames does lt take to
ibliography. Fwanuta! Bo got ua all tbaof tbe Krealln; vhat you call here the grayred line; complete, vbo'a on it, vhat number, bov they Veil, lt took us four frames for the vhole- thst'a big those directories. So be got uaclassified telephone directories. oapleteeverybody ss to his background, biatory. Academy oftbe ussr, and ita' flllale ln Siberia, and eightministry of Defense; Government of the ussr;those era tbe internal
dialing systems of three and four numbers. It vaa Veil, nov our ides is "Hov ahall vs keep this "Vhat channel?" At this point of history, thsan MI6 officer Ann, vas brought Into tbe aot. Bum vasMoscow. Ann came and vaa Introduced to penkovskiy inhere is the gimmick. Be had gonecientificvas an officer by the name ofenctualand he was ordered to go there and report and he He vent to the UK Embassy snd again said "Hov do youAnn. Therefore, she vas, her last name vas CBISOLM, onlist* Theyossier on her. He had anto meet vith ouch people because he vas sent there. like lt ln terms of frequency of meetings, outsidefunctions. He said "Veil look,eet her ontip my bat sndto.
I'lleport on it. Ofay hello tonow officially. Thia will givehance to paaaAll right, you can do thia once or twice, but beyond that you are gambling." The British aay "And what do you have American,ig mouth?1' They Just about were as nasty aa that. We didn't have very much going at the aoaent, but on .the road we had plenty ln what we call the pipeline. Our object waa to get an appropriate nan,in tbe Embassy under the appropriate cover, whichig headache, to whom penkovskiy could be officially sent by his people for official business. Then, we have no clandestine, risky meetings outside. eautiful thing,
except that you can'tIt always andtbatpredict tbe frequency of the lwitings. That vaeand we held out for lt as Ions as ve oould andInjected Into the plan to bare auch person er In tbe meantime, Ann vas briefed that "vhencomes, you vlll do this.** "Okay." We didn't needWTKKX vas going back and forth because that vasby the GfiD and the KOB for that matter, as
Bo, tine goes by nnd veessage through oinni tbat pretty soon he is going to the Wrench Exhibition ln Parle and he le loaded vith cachets, other than vhat WYNNE has already picked up. We are getting nil these things nil the time and ve are drooling. Wine, but this vas an svful beating because although lt saysh September lt vash October for tbe twelve meetings. We vereeptember. We didn't knov vhen the Trench vould give him his visa. We could not hurry then up or ehov any lntereet and the French vere playing fancy reciprocation. Tou make ua valt three veeka, ve aake you valt three veeks. So he le furious. What are they. Allies or not? ean, after he told us "Why the hell you keep ae bouncing ln place ln Moscow for threeell, ve vere bouncing in plnce in Paris for tbe same time, letting things develop normally. In the meantime, ve bad cued more sa fa houses and more meeting sites nnd everything else that ve needed in Parle than you can imagine. There, unfortunately, the British have assets far and avay above anything ve could dream of ln tbe vny of safehouses, eupport assets and everything you vant ln Paris. After all tbey are close to the continent theaeelvee, they have been there for many, many years and they knov hov to operate. So, (garbled) the British safehouse, the Britishot of themot of them right hand drive.ent fiom Orly to Is Bourget nndeautiful dletance of aboutr SO miles through French traffic; vepecial driver Soger King, vho droveeace track driver; vhen necessary he wouldour
respect for you Is his Bind. All right thst is fins for
felloe who sight want to work with you or defect. There srs
the ln-betveeners for whoa the tlslng la off, tbe concept is
ripe, but tbe tlslng Is off. Fully situations, obligations
which say change. Be sight say like pzhkoyukiy said "If you
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see Colonel Peak, give his ay greetings." reat deal without even knowing it hisself, of putting boss seeds of thought to cooperate vltb as la pxkiovskiyind. Bosaonesay get tha credit in the future for tbe contact, but there la where the seed cfisis ia. Ao aoo't paasthe (garbled) if the guj doean't want to play ball because be can't at thia tlae. {garbled port ion) but be can't telegraph to yeu aov or to anybody else bia views. Of course, ln the ease of tbe fellow who never would, you atlll have an aaaet to generate by creating reepect for you. At the very outside he who hates the United States sight at least tell another Soviet "Tou know, all Americans sren't sons of bitches. ct one whond even thislus by having this or desire to tbe Soviet. How do you do this? Mo two people are alike amongst us and no two Soviets are alike, but as sn objective, bow to impress favorably the Soviet, try tooncept. ust quote his own wordshe was dignified, be couldonfldeace,ould trust bis." hinkiece, as we teach down south, to quote someone like this is far sore seaalngful than to generate concepts of how to get alongoviet froa every other possible self-genera texl psychologicalbackground thinking. It is not quite the ease thing.
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