abel AY DASE ACTON MSTA nO CS OEE CA OES 9 ’ : Me RBI RYPSlnne eee mpi snd ene mieelnaee: Pemmmvens im me daemons ee Chief of Station, Londen,- 7 '° 1S Maren l3c2 © . C Operaticnal/REDWOCD/LCINPROVE/AELADLE ee Michael #@YNKE-ELLIS J@ a TT Ss pottnc nova eda; Car of a OGED See below 8° Quéuh4D mQ O¢08 Cray OELW-19307, 23 January 1962 Guorw appreciated the KGB document forwarded with Reference and have submitted the following comments and questiong: i Soe 1. "We have a number of questions about thig document on which we should be grateful for your coments, and as background to some of thege we think 1t will be useful for you tohave. an account of @YNNE-ELLIS dealings with AELADLE: Coe os ns) - a, “Phey date from June 1961 when he was con- sidering a visit to the U.S.3.R. He mentioned thia to the Soviet Ambaszador, whom he met at. the Queen's Brthday Celebration in Helsinki, (he did not realise at first that _. dt was the Ambassador co whom he was talking), The Ambassador 2°" guggested that he should get in touch with Ivan Efimovich SERGEEV, an identified R.1.5. officer, ob bd, “Between 5th and 15th July 1961 (nine -ELLtS. Coo went to the Consular Section of the Soviet Embassy to 8¢6 -gbout the viea. Apparently hé.did not see SERCZEV but met AELADLE who ahowed a good deal of curiosity about him and asked whether he had ever been to the U.S.3.R. before, whether he had applied in London for a visa, what he was doing in Helainki oto. The possibility of ABLADLE taking English lessons from (WYNNE-ELLIS was mentioned and AELADLE gaid he would get in®’touch with WYNNE“ELLI fppout this. He asked for a short biogebhy of E~ELLIS)~ ec. “He brought the visa application forms and his biography to AELADLE two days later and although AELADLE was _apparently very busy he seed WYNNE-ELLIS) for slarification - gf various details. AELADLE dfé not; take Engliah lcesaons from (WYNNE-ELLIS Job G é. ot % the end of September, or beginning of Octobexs 1961, (WYNNE-ELLIS )received a letter from AELADLE AN king for the address of’his pen friend in Rugesia, Staniaiav yo (ALKIN, who had been concerned in (WYNNE-ELLI 1, renruiltment by the R.I.8d (WYNNE-ELLIS telephoned AELAD to say that he did not have the new address. AELADLE told him that if he wanted it, he could have a visa ‘tomorrow! to visit ‘Stalingrad (now Velcograd) and.in.the ceurse of conversation gaid ‘sometimes it is better to visit places but nol old frionds!, We wondered at the time, and ever more after AELADLE's defection, whether this remark had any special eignificance. , : ry, e. “On 16th November AELADLE invited (WYNNE-ELLIS) to attend a Soviet concert, AELADLE told nim that he nad been granted a tourist viea but that if he wished to visit his pen friend he would require a letter of invitation Crom him. ARLADLE asked about Hs British frionds in Helsinkl and said that he would phone ((YNNE-ELLID) next week to make a further appointment. He id pot do this, ~ APTIOEG ene mee Mes me ee CLASSIFICATION e Bee och os
14-00000 Pee Cane CONTINUATION OF DISPA.CH SECRET /RYBAT - CELA-25=534 cf. "A further development whieh may be of interest de that in early January 1992 (4YKNE-ELLIS) received a further letter from his Kuesian pen friend giving him a fairly preasing invitation to visit himoG@¥NKE-ELLIS) who was not aware of AELADLE'e defecticn, wrote to AELADLE telling him that he had now receivea the invitation, and inviting his to coffee at hie house} t 2, "We thought that the arrival of this letter (1t C , , i wae dated 25.12.61) so ehortly after AELADLE's defection, 9 : and after a long gap in the correspondence between WYNNE-ELLIS) and his pen friend, might indicate that the R.I.S. suspected that NE-ELLI d had a hand in AELADLE's defection. o6 (WYNKE-ELLIS) was never aware that AELADLE waa an R.1I.S. “officer. you know from an earlier conversation about this 3e of As WYNNE-ELLIS/)is a most unsatisfactory character to deul with, and we believe that the R.I.S. have found him . suppose that -v but we would not exclude this as a possibility - or at ledet would not exolude the possibility that he might have eoneidered this. &, “Our questions on the( WYNNE-ELLIS) document aupplied by AELADLE are aa follows: a, “What ie the manuscript word at the top of the firet page, and what ia its significance? — sa RE RACED nee OOO b, “The two typed words, one immediately below the manuscript word on page 1 and the other te the left, are not legible on our copy. ' November being in inverted commag, thus & “We are puzzled by what at firat sight appeared to be a date, 22.XTI.1961, in the heading immediately above the text on page 1. In fact the Roman numerals 'Xii? are the ecyrillie letter x7, but we do not understand their meaning, Can .AELADLE. explain this? e. “What is the name in which the document is signed, and does AELADLE imow the true identity of this person? So RPC Wika USER tas 6 By cee eed en es REE a 4 we tf. "ye are a little surprised at the cyrillic trans~ siteration of UyNNECELLTS 9s name, We should have expected the KGB to have a eystem which would enable them to get bask to the correct English spelling. Admittedly (RINNE-ELLIS} ¢ name is an awkward one to deal with. oG: g. ."We eghould have expected that AELADLEZ would hava - pent: a trace request to his Headquarters shortly after the first meeting with (1YNNE-~ELLIS) in July 1951, Yet the reply was apparently sent~only on lith November, Oan AELADLE comment on this? % ; i i 4 { i | i oe, "Ze there anv significance an fhe date lith "9 i ton Meuse MEER! Or oe ay OANA TLE GAN BE FEB ade A hb TAREE R A ey oe 6 STO 5. "We do not wish to suggest by these comments that We suspect that this dosument maght be a forgery, but we would be grateful for your confirmation that you do not consider this a possibility, Yn
14-00000 aor) . Lt ba 88 Pe ee See ee CONTINUATION OF . DISPATCH SECEET /PYBAT | CELA-25934 6. "You will no doubt in due couree be queetioningg( AELADLE in detail on hie kmowledge of the WYKNE-ELLIS) case. We do not at thia etage wish to suggest detailed questions except to remark that we do not kncw the real nagee of any of the R.I.S. officers who dealt with him - including the gan whom, it is etated in the AELADLE document, be (vt in L the U.K. There te some mystery about this because WY SNE@9, ELLIS \deniee having met any R.I.S. officer in the Ke» he did however have contact with various Russians here {including an R,I.3. officer) and we suspect that the miLisy never identified himself as such 0 WYENE- 06 nate fost boy etd NER Ie, hese elie Distributions 3 e Chief, SR” 2» Chief, WE ercnaperonommenaniaiareertse caren tart sont Set AAO ELITE AS EE BA ES AYES CO SAETN NOS CD NNER HN Cr TH Os meena te RE a iP