Rudolf Abel
Soviet intelligence officer (1903–1971)
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A Soviet spy who ran a New York operation under a borrowed name, caught when a hollow nickel split open on a Brooklyn sidewalk, then traded back to Moscow for a downed U-2 pilot in the Cold War's most famous prisoner exchange.
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William August Fisher was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1903 to Russian émigré parents, moved to Russia in the 1920s, and became a radio operator in Soviet intelligence before fighting the Germans in World War II. After the war, the KGB sent him to the United States to work in a New York City spy ring under the alias Rudolf Ivanovich Abel — a name he adopted to signal his handlers when the FBI arrested him in 1957. Convicted in federal court on three counts of conspiracy in what became known as the Hollow Nickel Case, he was sentenced to 30 years at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He served jus…
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