| Gervase Cowell | |
| Birth Date: | 1926 8, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Sale, Cheshire |
| Death Place: | Sutton, London |
| Education: | St Bede's College, Manchester |
| Alma Mater: | St Catharine's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation: | Intelligence agent, diplomat and Historian |
| Spouse: | Pamela Alger |
| Children: | Two sons and a daughter |
Gervase Cowell (1926 8, df=y -) was half of a British husband-and-wife intelligence team who handled Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet GRU military intelligence officer who provided the West with invaluable military secrets.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Gervase and Pamela Cowell replaced another couple, Charles and Janet Chisholm, after Janet became pregnant and was recalled to London in June 1962.[1] After Penkovsky was arrested on 22 October 1962, tried and later executed, the Cowells were expelled from the Soviet Union.[1]
After retirement he became chairman of the historical sub-committee of the Special Forces Club, for which work he was made an MBE in the new year's honours list.[6]
Cowell, G., Special Forces Club., & Great Britain. (1993). Ravensbrück: The women of S.O.E.F Section. London: Special Forces Club.[7]