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Old 16th May 2021, 16:30
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chopper2004
 
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Originally Posted by Lance Shippey
Hopefully released in British cinemas on Monday 17th. May Film "The Courier" a.k.a. "Ironbark" staring Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne.
The true story tells of Soviet Spy Oleg Penkovsky passing intelligence to Greville Wynne which contributed the ending the Cuban Missile crisis. Wynne was caught and swapped with Soviet Spy Konon Molody with the assistance of East German Lawyer Prof.Dr.Wolfgang Vogel, It was Vogel who negotiate the swap of Gary Powers and Fred Pryor for Rudolf Abels.

Lance Shippey.
I have read his biography ‚The Man with Odessa‘,including various adventures such as equivalent of SERE / interrogation course conducted by. Flaming haired giant of an operative in a cellar and passing with flying colors to been told there be a cushioned jump on the docks he escaped from a freighter in the Black Sea only to break his legs or ankle. This was to authenticate his role as a disgruntled member of the ships crew.

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