Oleg Penkovsky
Spy, Deceased Person
1919 – 1963
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Who was Oleg Penkovsky?
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, codenamed HERO, was a colonel with Soviet military intelligence during the late 1950s and early 1960s who informed the United Kingdom and the United States about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba.
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