The true story behind The Courier confirms that some of the intelligence Wynne received from his Russian contact, Soviet military intelligence colonel Oleg Penkovsky, informed the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba. Penkovsky's real-life codename was HERO.ĭid British spy Greville Wynne help to prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis? However, in real life, IRONBARK was the codename for the documents that Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky had been passing to the CIA. In the movie, the title refers to Oleg Penkovsky's codename. The Courier premiered at Sundance in January 2020 under its original title, Ironbark. The Courier fact-check reveals that, like his father, Penkovsky had become disillusioned with the Soviet system. The loosely allied forces that made up the White Army favored capitalism and social democracy, which stood in contrast to the communist ideologies of the Red Army.
Penkovsky's career in the Soviet military had been hindered by the fact that his father had died fighting as an officer for the White Army against the Bolsheviks (Red Army) during the Russian Civil War (1917 – 1923) and Penkovsky didn't denounce this legacy.
In 19, at the height of the Cold War, disgruntled colonel Oleg Penkovsky (portrayed by Merab Ninidze) became the highest-ranking Soviet military official to spy for the United Kingdom up until that time. Why did Oleg Penkovsky want to become a spy for the West? This provided a near-perfect cover for spying.
It required plenty of foreign travel, including to Soviet bloc countries. In 1950, engineer Greville Wynne set up his own business as an exporter of industrial engineering products.
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