Arthur Wynn (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Arthur Henry Ashford Wynn (22 January 1910 - 24 September 2001), was a British civil servant, social researcher, and recruiter of Soviet spies. Recruited by Edith Tudor-Hart in 1936, Wynn was the well known Soviet spy "Agent Scott" of the KGB. Wynn created the less prominent Oxford spy ring, the University of Oxford counterpart to the infamous Cambridge Five. Wynn was the son of a professor of medicine. Educated at Oundle School, he played rugby union. Wynn read natural sciences and mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Wynn was in Germany when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor. He resultantly married German communist Lieschen Ostrowski, to enable her to escape Nazi Germany.