Janet Chisholm, born Janet Anne Deane, was a British MI6 agent during the Cold War.
10 Facts About Janet Chisholm
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Janet Chisholm was born in Kasauli, India to a Royal Engineers officer.
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Janet Chisholm was educated Queen Anne's School, Caversham, in Berkshire, where she learnt Russian.
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Janet Chisholm's husband was a spy who headed the MI6 station in Moscow but worked under the guise of a visa officer.
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Janet Chisholm would meet Penkovsky in a local park and he would offer what appeared to be sweets, but were actually disguised documents containing military secrets about the Soviet nuclear weapons arsenal.
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Janet Chisholm had planned to write a memoir but died of malaria before he could begin.
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Janet Chisholm continued to travel around the world until well into her 70s.
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Janet Chisholm refused to talk about her experiences in Russia and took all of the secrets she learned to the grave.
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Janet Chisholm was portrayed by Lucy Liemann in the 2007 BBC Television docudrama Nuclear Secrets.
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The programme included covert KGB photographs showing Janet Chisholm meeting Oleg Penkovsky.