Arthur Wynn

Arthur Henry Ashford Wynn (22 January 1910 – 24 September 2001) was a British civil servant, social researcher,[1] and recruiter of spies for the Soviet NKVD.

While at the University of Oxford he joined the Clarendon Club, and met and married Margaret 'Peggy' Moxon, a student and a fellow member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

In the 1998 book The Crown Jewels by writer Nigel West and the former KGB officer Oleg Tsarev, the NKVD London station reported a significant intelligence coup, stating that Edith Tudor-Hart had recruited "a second Sohnchen," the code name used for Kim Philby.

Recruited to the NKVD's British team, Wynn began sending reports on Oxford members of the Communist Party.

[1] He was the National Coal Board's scientific member from 1955 to 1965, and then a senior civil servant in Tony Benn's Ministry of Technology until his retirement in 1971.

The double life of Wynn was exposed in The Weekly Standard magazine by historians John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev.

When the KGB confirmed the existence of "Agent Scott" in 1996, the mole was incorrectly described as an Old Etonian, a Scotsman and a member of the Foreign Office: Wynn was none of these.

[4] From information uncovered by Vassiliev, a memo dated July 1941 from Pavel Fitin, the NKVD's war time head of counter-intelligence, to NKGB chief Vsevolod Merkulov, named "Agent Scott" as Wynn.

About 35 years old, member of the CP (Communist Party) of England, graduated from Oxford and Cambridge univs, radio expert, design engineer for the Cossor Co. recruited in Oct. 34 by "Stephan" (Mally) from "Edith's" (Tudor Hart) lead.Arthur Wynn died in London in 2001 and his ashes were buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.