Gervase CowellMBE ((1926-08-04)4 August 1926 – (2000-05-02)2 May 2000) was half of a British husband-and-wife intelligence team who handled Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet GRU military intelligence officer who provided the West with invaluable military secrets.[1][2][3][4][5]
Gervase and Pamela Cowell replaced another couple, Charles and Janet Chisholm, after Janet became pregnant and was recalled to London in June 1962.[1] After Penkovsky was arrested on 22 October 1962, tried and later executed, the Cowells were expelled from the Soviet Union.[1]
After retirement he became chairman of the historical sub-committee of the Special Forces Club, for which work he was made an MBE in the new year's honours list.[6]
Bibliographyedit
Cowell, G., Special Forces Club., & Great Britain. (1993). Ravensbrück: The women of S.O.E.F Section. London: Special Forces Club.[7]
Referencesedit
^ abc"Gervase Cowell". The Guardian. 15 May 2000. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
^"Gervase Cowell, 73, Manager of a Soviet Turncoat Spy, Dies". The New York Times. 12 May 2000. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
^"Gervase Cowell: British Anti-Soviet Spy". Los Angeles Times. 13 May 2000. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
^Duns, Jeremy (3 November 2013). "The Spy Who Saved The World—Then Tried To Destroy It". Daily Beast. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
^"1963: Moscow jails British 'spy'". BBC news. 11 May 1963. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
^"Cowell, Gervase (oral history)". www.iwm.org.uk. Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
^Cowell, Gervase (1993). Cowell, G., Special Forces ClubRavensbrück: The women of S.O.E.F Section. Special Forces Club.
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