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THE COURIER
The true story behind this energetic espionage drama is a gripping tale of morality, betrayal and unexpected friendship in the shadow of the Cold War.
How Colonel Oleg Penkovsky became “the focuses on his main British contact, Greville Wynne, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Wynne is a businessman who likes a drink and is won over quickly when, in 1960, the CIA and MI6 ask him to use his regular sales trips behind the Iron Curtain to courier covert information between the USSR and UK. The wimpy-looking Wynne is reassured by his British handler that “if the mission was the least bit dangerous, you’re the last man we’d send”.
