Historical person
Jeremy Wolfenden
1934–1965
Jeremy Wolfenden was educated at Eton and Oxford, won a fellowship at All Souls and was regarded as an exceptional linguist and scholar. He left academic life for journalism and became the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow during a period of intense intelligence rivalry.
Because homosexual acts remained illegal in Britain and Wolfenden lived relatively openly, Soviet intelligence was able to place him under pressure. He later moved to Washington and died in 1965 after years of heavy drinking. Wolfenden’s career illustrates the collision between private life, British social attitudes and Cold War intelligence operations in the early 1960s. Jeremy Wolfenden was born in England and died in Washington, D.C., United States.
In Sebastian Faulks’ The Fatal Englishman, the final life is Jeremy Wolfenden, an exceptional Oxford academic who abandons university life for journalism and is sent to Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Jeremy Wolfenden (1 book)
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