Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Russian: Олег Владимирович Пеньковский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963) codenamed HERO was a colonel with Soviet military intelligence (GRU) 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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1919-04-23
birth place
North Ossetia–Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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