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Rudolf Abel. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel ( Russian: Рудольф Иванович Абель ), real name William August Fisher (11 July 1903 – 15 November 1971), was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias when arrested on charges of conspiracy by the FBI in 1957. Fisher was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East ...
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Oct 19, 2015 · Even though Rudolf Abel was a better Cold War Spy for the Soviet Union than an actual painter, his role in the history of the two nations makes him famous. It’s for that reason that some of Abel’s paintings (that survive) should become posters. I think they would be in demand by a select group of people who are interested in real history.
Oct 9, 2015 · According to the Bridge of Spies true story, Oliver Powers, the father of captured U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, wrote to Rudolf Abel telling him that he was going to ask the United States government to make an exchange. Abel's wife Elena wrote James Donovan to see if he could get her husband clemency (like in the film, Donovan was aware that ...
Rudolf Abel (born July 11, 1903, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England—died November 15, 1971, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet intelligence officer, convicted in the United States in 1957 for conspiring to transmit military secrets to the Soviet Union. He was exchanged in 1962 for the American aviator Francis Gary Powers, who had been ...
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Image: 7/7. The James B. Donovan collection houses the extensive notes kept by Donovan’s assistant, Thomas Debevoise (later the Attorney General of Vermont), who made exhaustive lists of Abel’s aliases, code names, dead drop sites, associates (including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg), and the items confiscated from hotel rooms and apartments where Abel had stayed.
Oct 16, 2015 · That's the frame as we watch painter Rudolf Abel using a razor blade in his Brooklyn apartment to extract an encrypted slip of paper from inside a hollow nickel. He will shortly be apprehended by ...
Jul 11, 1903 - Nov 15, 1971. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, real name William August Fisher, was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias when arrested on charges of conspiracy by the FBI in 1957. Fisher was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England in the United Kingdom to Russian émigré parents. He moved to Russia ...
