One foggy morning in Berlin, a yellow Mercedes from the Soviet zone drew up at the tollgate at the Heerstrasse crossing point. Two other Mercedes limousines had already arrived from the British sector, and in the pale light the exchange was effected.
From the Soviet side, walking between two Russian plainclothesmen, came London Businessman Greville Wynne, 45, who last May had been sentenced to eight years as a spy. From the British side came Konon Trofimovich Molody, 40, alias Gordon Lonsdale, who had been sentenced in 1961 to 25 years on the...
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