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Abel: The True Story of the Spy they traded for Gary powers

Vin Arthey 2010

Apparently a British author.

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James Donovan - 1962

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was derived from James Donovan's (no relation to William Donovan) book by the same name.

written in 1962 or 1964. The movie is pretty accurate to the book,

where Donovan relates his very interesting role in brokering the exchange of the Soviet

spy ('illegal reszident') Rudolph Abel (real name Willie Fisher) and Francis Gary Powers, the

U-2 'spy plane' pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960.

This latter incident had a profound effect on the post war generation, which missed

World War II, and now found that the 'Cold War' was very real, and deadly, and the Russians

very scary adversaries. The Power's mission was yet another spectacular failure by Allen

Dulles, and his CIA - based on the Dulles hubris that the Russians could not possibly shoot

down a plane flying on the edge of space at 70,000 feet.

In those few short years of the late 1950's, the Russians launched Sputnik, passed the US in

the 'space race', and then shot down a U-2 spy plane flying brazenly over their territory, taking

pictures of the secret missile bases. Powers was supposed to kill himself with the secret pin

given to all the U-2 pilots, but somehow he failed to do this. In addition, most Americans

thought that Powers was too compliant at his Moscow show trial, which sentenced him to 10 or 20

years in Soviet prisons.

Unlike the Soviet show trial, Rudolph Abel was given a real trial, with the American Bar Association

appointing Brooklyn insurance lawyer James Donovan to defend him. Donovan was not a criminal lawyer,

but a decorated OSS veteran who helped prosecute the Nuremburg trials after WWII. When Donovan

lost his case, he wrote a convincing pre sentencing document to the Judge pointing out that, sooner

or later, an American spy would be caught by the Soviets, and they could trade a live Abel, spared

execution, for that American spy. Powers was not a spy, but the Soviets would be more than willing

to recover a key KGB asset for a mere air force pilot.

By the time of his capture, Abel was a colonel in the Soviet NKVD, and served in NYC as the

'illegal reszident' for all Russian agents in that area. Illegal reszident meant that he was a soviet

agent, not registered with the US government (naturally), and transmitting directly, via radio, to the

Moscow 'centre'. He was caught because another illegal reszident (Reino Hayhanen) in NYC defected to the FBI, and

revealed Abel. Hayhanen was a weak agent, an alcoholic, and never should have been deployed to

the U.S. by the NKVD - it showed an over all weakness in their approach.

Most American spies, such as the executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, had been captured by the 1957

trial of Abel. While the FBI had its notorious shortcomings, one thing it did have was cars, communications,

and manpower. It just eventually overwhelmed the Soviet apparatus.

You can still today go on a 'spy tour' in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the various places where the

American spies gave away atomic secrets right under the noses of the FBI and General Groves to

Soviet agents. One of them is the former 'Zooks' drug store, where a Stalinist agent plotted the assassination of

Leon Trotsky in Mexico, in 1940.

Rudolph Abel came from a german - Russian family who grandparents came from Germany, but

ended up in New Castle, England (not far from where Winslow Homer painted his famous seascapes).

Father Heinrich ran guns to the Bolsheviks in 1905, around the time that Rudolph (Willie Fisher) was born

in England. The family were dedicated Bolsheviks, and returned to Russia after the Revolution to support

Lenin. The British dutifully followed all this activity, while its intelligence services plotted to strangle the

newly formed Soviet government.

Willie (Rudolph) quickly joined the NKVD when he got back to Russia, and became a very active,

and prominent agent in WWII. After the war, he was trained to penetrate 'the main adversary', i.e.

the United States. Hence his deployment to New York City, a city full of communists, anyway, or

at least communist sympathizers. Abel was also the 'banker' for local agents, including some in the

atomic spy ring, but CPUSA membership was down to 3000 in the late 50's, and he did very little actual spying.

Mostly he painted, to maintain a local cover, and mixed with the locals.

What interested me in this book, was the British role in his life. Back in Moscow,

in 1931, he applied for and received a renewal of the British passport, which was a golden

document for any Soviet Spy - an open road to the West. Why did the British give it to him, when

he was already working for the NKVD?

Secondly, his overall boss in the NKVD was one Alexsandr Orlov, who designed the 'intellectual'

model for recruiting the Cambridge 5 - the infamous Soviet Spy Ring at the top levels of

British intelligence before, during, and after WWII. Orlov developed a theory that targeted the upper

British classes for recruitment to Soviet agents, which was counterintuitive to 'normal'

Soviet thinking, but brilliant in its results: All 'Cambridge Five' were pessimistic about British

commitment to stop fascism (for good reason).

They did not need Soviet money, and had automatic promotions in the British Secret Service,

due to their upper class social status The dumb Americans then watched for years as this cabal

killed their agents and destroyed their covert operations in the 1950's.

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The least well known Britisher was John Cairncross, who wrote his history thesis on 'When

Polygamy was made a sin.' Three of them ended up in Moscow exile, which was social and sexual

Purgatory for them, since part of their recruitment featured homo and bisexuality.

Another exceptional NKVD agent in the field in Austria, Arnold Deutsch, was said to be the real

author of the Orlov 'theory', and he combined Reich and Freud (both proven charlatans from later

experience) to target sexual weaknesses in targeted foreign agents.

After Powers was shot down, it did not take long for the KGB to put out back channel feelers for an

exchange of Abel for Powers. The Soviets knew that Abel was still loyal, but their daily practice told

them he could be turned. He had in fact told the FBI nothing, and unlike toda