Jeremy Wolfenden
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Jeremy Wolfenden ( 26 June, 1934, England - 1965) Foreign Correspondent and British Spy at the height of the Cold War.
He won a scholarship to Eton where he was known as 'cleverest boy in England', then to Magdalen College, Oxford where he obtained a first in PPE. He was recruited by Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) before becoming the Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent in Moscow where he indulged in his twin passions for sex and alcohol and was eventually compromised by the KGB. He struck up a friendships with Guy Burgess the British defector, and Martina Browne, the maid of Ruari and Janet Chisholm who were working for SIS and were instrumental in the defection of Oleg Penkovsky - a colonel in Soviet military intelligence - who was responsible for disabusing the Kennedy administration of the myth that the 'missile gap' was in the Soviet's favour. Wolfenden subsequently came under pressure from both SIS and the KGB while in Moscow and swapped roles with the Telegraph's Washington correspondent, where he married Martina Browne. He died aged 31 in what appeared to be suspicious circumstances in Washington, though it now seems likely that he died of liver failure brought on by his excessive drinking.
A short biography of Wolfenden appears in the book The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks.