Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Oleg Penkovsky
Standard Name: Penkovsky, Oleg
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: About a week after the Cuban missile crisis...
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Late autumn 1962
About a week after the Cuban missile crisis eased, a Russian agent, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky
, used in a phone call to his MI6
contact the pre-arranged code that signified nuclear attack was imminent.
Rose, David. “The Closest Call”. The Observer, 3 Mar. 2002, p. Review 15.
