Portrayal in Popular Culture
Penkovsky was portrayed by Christopher Rozycki in the 1985 BBC television serial Wynne and Penkovsky his spying career was the subject of Episode 1 of the 2007 BBC Television docudrama Nuclear Secrets, entitled The Spy from Moscow in which he was portrayed by Mark Bonnar. The programme featured original covert KGB footage showing Penkovsky photographing classified information and meeting with Janet Chisholm. It was broadcast on 15 January 2007.
Penkovsky is also mentioned in three of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books: The Hunt for Red October, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, and Red Rabbit. In the Jack Ryan universe, he is described as the agent who recruited Colonel Mikhail Filitov as a CIA agent (code-name CARDINAL), and in fact had urged Filitov to betray him in order to solidify his position as the West's top spy in the Soviet hierarchy. The "cremated alive" hypothesis also appears in several Clancy novels. Furthermore, Penkovsky's fate is also mentioned in the Nelson DeMille spy novel The Charm School.
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