Did Oleg Penkovsky Actually Save The World?

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Code Name Hero: Oleg Penkovsky has been called The Man Who Saved the World, a Russian intelligence agent who spied for the West until he was caught and executed by the Soviets. But were things really as they seemed with him? Or was he a double agent?

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0:00.0	featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.8	This is The Shocking Details.
0:15.5	Hey there. Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details. I'm Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldoni.
0:24.5	And welcome to our first fresh mystery of 2024. If you've been listening, we took a few weeks off there for the holidays and did some reruns. Sorry about that, but I'm not sorry because, I mean, you know, old stanky, shocking details stories
0:38.7	are, they're wonderful. They're like fine wine. They age well, right? Yeah, I think so.
0:43.7	That's it. Yeah, but this week we are back with a fresh, fresh mystery. Cold War mystery,
0:49.7	as a matter of fact, we know how much of people love those. And this story
0:54.1	will be familiar to some of our listeners
0:56.1	because it was covered in a
0:58.0	recent film called
0:59.9	The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberback.
1:03.1	You may have heard of that one.
1:04.9	It's a good movie.
1:06.0	Yeah, actually it is. And here's a snippet from the trailer.
1:09.5	This is unexpected.
1:14.6	I can't believe I'm actually having lunch with spies. I'm just a salesman.
1:16.6	Exactly. You're civilians.
1:18.6	The KGB won't be watching.
1:19.6	It would be a real service to Great Britain.
1:22.6	What would you want me to do?
1:26.6	I'm here to open a door to the top manufacturers in the West.
1:32.3	When I'd be putting myself in danger,
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