Janet Chisholm (May 7, 1929 – July 23, 2004), born Janet Anne Deane, was a former British MI6 agent during the Cold War. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS) colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom 's external Intelligence agency. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the
She was born in India and educated in Berkshire studying Russian and French. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Berkshire (ˈbɑːkʃə or /ˈbɑːkʃɪə/ say Baak-shuh/-sheer sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a Home County in the South This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. After school, she worked in London before joining the Allied Control Commission and moving to West Germany. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Following the termination of hostilities in World War II, the Allied Powers were in control of the defeated Axis countries Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. There she met her future husband, Ruari Chisholm, and began working for British Intelligence.
Her husband was a spy who headed the MI6 station in Moscow but worked under the guise of a visa officer. When Oleg Penkovsky offered Soviet military secrets to MI6 she became the go-between. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, codenamed "Agent Hero" (Олег Владимирович Пеньковский born April 23, 1919, Vladikavkaz The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 To all outward appearances, Janet was an ordinary mother of three children. She would meet Penkovsky in a local park and he would offer what appeared to be candy, but was actually disguised documents containing military secrets about the Soviet nuclear weapons arsenal. Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water to which a variety of flavorings and colorants is added A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion.
Their cover was eventually blown by another British agent named George Blake who had defected to the Soviet side. George Blake (born George Behar, November 11, 1922) is a former British spy known for having been a Double agent in Penkovsky was quickly arrested and executed and the Chisholms were deported. Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. Controversy surrounds Penkovsky's death with many believing that MI6 put him in danger after Blake confessed all to the Soviet officials. For their part, MI6 have always maintained that he insisted on continuing to feed the British information even after his life was threatened.
The Chisholms went on to work in Singapore and South Africa until Ruari's retirement. Singapore The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa He had planned to write a memoir but died of malaria before he could begin. for other uses see Memoir (disambiguation As a literary Genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire Malaria is a vector -borne Infectious disease caused by Protozoan Parasites It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions including Janet continued to travel around the world until well into her 70s. She refused to talk about her experiences in Russia and took all of the secrets she learned to the grave.
The Chisholms were featured in Episode 1 of the BBC series "Nuclear Secrets", entitled "The Spy from Moscow". The programme included covert KGB photographs showing Janet Chisholm meeting Oleg Penkovsky. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, codenamed "Agent Hero" (Олег Владимирович Пеньковский born April 23, 1919, Vladikavkaz The programme was broadcast on 15 Jan 2007. [1]
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