RUSSIA TWO ON TRIAL NEITHER OF THE MEN WHO GLARED AT EACH 
OTHER ACROSS THE PRISONER'S DOCK IN A CROWDED MOSCOW COURTROOM LOOKED 
VERY MUCH LIKE A SPY . DAPPER GREVILLE MAYNARD WYNNE, 44, 
WAS A SALESMAN WHO LIVED QUIETLY IN LONDON'S FASHIONABLE CHELSEA SECTION 
WITH HIS WIFE AND YOUNG SON WHEN HE WAS NOT ON 
THE ROAD SELLING ELECTRICAL MACHINERY IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE . 
SLENDER OLEG PENKOVSKY, 44, WAS A MUCHDECORATED RUSSIAN WAR HERO WHO 
RECENTLY HAD HELD THE DELICATE JOB OF ARRANGING EAST-WEST SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES 
FOR A SOVIET STATE COMMITTEE . BUT LAST WEEK THE INCONGRUOUS 
PAIR WENT ON TRIAL FOR ESPIONAGE BEFORE A MILITARY PANEL OF 
THREE SOVIET SUPREME COURT GENERALS . WHILE KLIEG LIGHTS GLARED AND 
SOME 300 PERSPIRING SPECTATORS SAT ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS 
FOR FIVE DAYS, THE MOST BIZARRE SPY CIRCUS IN POSTWAR SOVIET 
HISTORY UNFOLDED BEFORE THEIR EYES . IF THE TWO MEN'S CONFESSIONS 
COULD BE BELIEVED, THE WEST HAD PULLED OFF A SPECTACULAR COUP 
IN THE COLD WAR STRUGGLE FOR INTELLIGENCE SECRETS . FOR 18 
STRAIGHT MONTHS, FROM APRIL 1961 UNTIL LAST OCTOBER, PENKOVSKY HAD FUNNELED 
TO WYNNE AND OTHER COURIERS A STREAM OF NEARLY 5,000 PHOTOGRAPHS 
OF SECRET SOVIET DATA ON MISSILE DEVELOPMENTS, TROOP MOVEMENTS, ECONOMIC AND 
POLITICAL INSIDE STUFF FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE ITSELF . 
JUST A CHAUFFEUR . IT BEGAN IN NOVEMBER 1960, WHEN PENKOVSKY 
GOT FED UP WITH HIS MOSCOW JOB . SEEKING " THE 
EASY LIFE, " PENKOVSKY SAID HE SENT A LETTER TO THE 
U.S . EMBASSY IN MOSCOW, OFFERING HIS SERVICES TO THE U.S 
. ACCORDING TO PENKOVSKY, OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON IGNORED THE OFFER, FEARING 
A TRAP . BUT PENKOVSKY WAS DETERMINED TO WORK FOR THE 
WEST . HIS CHANCE CAME AT LAST WHEN HE STRUCK UP 
A CONVERSATION WITH WYNNE THE FOLLOWING MONTH AT A MOSCOW RECEPTION 
FOR VISITING BRITISH TECHNICIANS . WYNNE WAS HAPPY TO MEET THE 
RUSSIAN, HE SAID, BECAUSE SOVIET CONTACTS WERE USEFUL FOR HIS MACHINERY 
BUSINESS . THUS, WHEN PENKOVSKY SHOWED UP NEXT APRIL IN LONDON, 
SUPPOSEDLY TO SET UP AN EXCHANGE WITH BRITISH SCIENTISTS, WYNNE WENT 
OUT TO THE AIRPORT TO MEET HIM AND SHOW HIM AROUND 
TOWN . WERE YOU MERELY A CHAUFFEUR ? ASKED THE PROSECUTOR 
. THAT'S IT, WYNNE REPLIED . EXPLODED PENKOVSKY TO THE COURT 
: " THIS IS A CHILD'S TALE . BELIEVE ME, CITIZEN 
JUDGES, I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY WYNNE TRIES TO MINIMIZE HIS ROLE 
. I DIDN'T NEED A CHAUFFEUR . I COULD HAVE TAKEN 
A TAXI . " TRUTH WAS, SAID PENKOVSKY, HE WAS ALREADY 
RELAYING FILM TO BRITISH INTELLIGENCE, AND NOW WAS IN TOUCH WITH 
THE AMERICANS AS WELL . IN LONDON HE DELIVERED TWO BULKY 
PACKAGES OF STATE SECRETS TO WYNNE, TRIED ON BRITISH AND U.S 
. COLONELS' UNIFORMS JUST IN CASE HE DECIDED TO DEFECT, EVEN 
DISCUSSED A POSSIBLE ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA BY SUBMARINE IF THINGS GOT 
HOT . HE RECALLED MORE RELAXED MOMENTS PUB-CRAWLING AND NIGHTCLUBBING . 
BOX OF CHOCOLATES . AFTER LONDON, THERE WAS PARIS . WYNNE 
GAILY SHOWED THE RUSSIAN AROUND FONTAINEBLEAU, VERSAILLES, THE LIDO AND THE 
MOULIN ROUGE AND WILLINGLY PICKED UP THE TAB . PENKOVSKY HANDED 
OVER 15 MORE ROLLS OF FILM AND HAD FIVE SESSIONS WITH 
WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS . ON OCCASIONS WHEN WYNNE CAME TO MOSCOW 
ON A BUSINESS TRIP, PENKOVSKY USUALLY PASSED HIS INFORMATION TO HIM 
CONCEALED IN A BOX OF CHOCOLATES, WHICH WYNNE ALLEGEDLY GAVE TO 
MRS . JANET CHISHOLM, WIFE OF A SECOND SECRETARY OF THE 
BRITISH EMBASSY, FOR RELAY TO LONDON . WHEN MRS . CHISHOLM 
SUSPECTED SHE WAS BEING FOLLOWED, SHE SUGGESTED THAT WYNNE GIVE THE 
" CHOCOLATES " TO HER CHILDREN . ON HIS FLIGHTS OUT 
OF MOSCOW, WYNNE CARRIED BOOK-SIZE PACKAGES OF SECRETS WRAPPED IN PLAIN 
BROWN PAPER . PENKOVSKY SAID THAT WHEN HE DID NOT HAVE 
WYNNE AROUND TO ACT AS COURIER, HE USED HIS CODE NAME, 
" YOUNG, " AND DEALT DIRECTLY WITH U.S . AND BRITISH 
EMBASSY EMPLOYEES THROUGH AN ELABORATE SET OF SIGNALS AND TELEPHONE CODES 
. IT ALL WORKED FINE UNTIL LAST FALL WHEN THE SOVIET 
POLICE SWOOPED DOWN ON PENKOVSKY, EXTRACTING THE CONFESSION THAT IMPLICATED WYNNE 
. A FEW DAYS LATER, RUSSIA'S AGENTS LOCATED WYNNE IN BUDAPEST 
AND HUSTLED HIM BACK TO MOSCOW . LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE . 
THROUGH IT ALL, WYNNE DOGGEDLY MAINTAINED THAT HE WAS ONLY A 
BUSINESSMAN WHO HAD BEEN SNARED IN THE COILS OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE 
. AT FIRST, HE SAID, HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE 
BROWN PACKAGES OR BOXES OF CHOCOLATE REALLY CONTAINED . AFTER IT 
DAWNED ON HIM THAT HE WAS A SPY, HE DEMANDED NO 
PART OF THE " DIRTY BUSINESS, " BUT HIS SUPERIORS THREATENED 
TO WRECK HIS COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS, AND SO HE KEPT AT IT 
. " MY ANSWERS MIGHT SEEM NAIVE TO YOU PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN 
HERE, " HE SAID, TO THE LAUGHTER OF THE COURTROOM, " 
BUT I HAD NO IDEA HOW INTELLIGENCE OPERATED, I NOW KNOW 
EVEN BEFORE THE PROSECUTOR FINISHED HIS SUMMATION AT THE END OF 
THE TRIAL, THE GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER IZVESTIA APPEARED IN THE COURTROOM REPORTING 
HIS DEMAND FOR PUNISHMENT : A DEATH SENTENCE FOR PENKOVSKY AND 
TEN YEARS IN JAIL FOR WYNNE . THE MILITARY TRIBUNAL RETIRED 
TO CONFER, THEN PASSED JUDGMENT . PENKOVSKY WOULD BE SHOT ; 
WYNNE WOULD DO EIGHT YEARS IN JAIL . 