Moscow Spy Trial Soon

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30110, 19 April 1963, Page 9

Moscow Spy Trial Soon

ill l.f A -Keuier— Copyright) MOSCOW. April IK. The British businessman, Greville Wynne, charged by Russia with spying under a code which carries a possible death penalty, is likely to be tried within the next few weeks, according to Western observers. The Soviet news agency Tass. said last night that Mr Wynne had been charged under Article 85 of the Russian criminal code, which covers espionage by foreigners against the Soviet Union. 'Article 65 carries penalties

oi up to 15 yearr’ gaol or death. Tass announced earlier that Soviet security authorities aad completed their investiga tions into charges against Mr Wynne and against a Russian scientific worker Oleg Penkovsky. who. the Soviet C ummunisi Party newspaper “Pravda" has alleged, had ’direct Link*’’ with Mr Wynne Penkovsky is charged unde: rticle 64—high treason which also carries a penalty of up to 15 years’ imprisonment or death Mr Wynne’s trial is expected to be before the military section of the Soviet Supreme Court. No British diplomats will be allowed to see him until he has been tried Mr Wynne. managingdirector of Mobile Exhibitions. Limited, was arrested in Budapest last November 2

o. what Hungarian authorities called ‘"well-founded suspicion of espionage " He was -later handed over to Russia

In February. Mr Khrush ctiev told the Canadian news paper proprietor. Mr Roy Thomson tha‘ there would be “complete proof of the charges against Mr Wynne He said Mr Wynne’s activities were a "joint project started oy the British, who then shared their knowledge with the Americans.”

Mr Wynne "admits his guilt completely and he himself will testify to it" he added

Richard Jacob, a United States Embassy secretaryarchivist who was expellet', from the Soviet Union las' November, was alleged to have picked up secret information left in a Moscow building by Penkovsky.