Word: abel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abel exchange LL.D...
...even rate column eight-the preferred Page One spot for the big story of the day. Once more, simply because it was a morning paper, the Tribune scooped the Deseret News on the apprehension of the killer. Even more embarrassing, the guilty man turned out to be one Abel Aragon, one of Mullins' neighbors back home in Price, who put a bullet in his head when FBI men stopped his car. "I never even suspected him," said Mullins ruefully, before stitching together what was by necessity largely an echo of the Tribune's earlier coverage...
...interview with TV's David Brinkley, James B. Donovan, 46, pooh-poohed outcries that he had done the Kremlin a favor by helping engineer the exchange of Spymaster Rudolf Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. "The only information Abel could communicate to Moscow now," insisted the Manhattan lawyer, "would be descriptions of life in the penitentiary in Atlanta." Donovan doubted, too, that the Russians would reassign Abel to espionage duty. Said he: "There would always remain the lingering suspicion-especially in a semi-Oriental mind -that he had made some private deal with me to become...
...result of this deal is the freedom of the two "spies." Colonel Abel, skilled in his field, will probably re-enter the area of espionage and continue his successful career. Gary Powers, unskilled in spying and following instructions, will probably return home to have a nervous breakdown...
...subject of this callous horse trading, it strikes me that we got the worst of the deal. What Yankee would take a permanently unemployed pilot for an intelligence agent who's willing and Abel...