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...faces before him. Reino Hayhanen, testifying as a Government witness, told the court that he had come to the U.S. five years ago as a Soviet spy. His boss? Hayhanen pointed a pudgy finger at the expressionless, bird-faced man on trial for his life: Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, 55, a painter of modest talents, who was picked up by the FBI last summer, accused of being Russia's No. 1 spy in the U.S. (TIME...
Hayhanen, in his richly accented voice, detailed the life and times of a modern spy. He made his first contact with "Mark" (Abel's code name) merely by sticking a thumbtack into a sign in a Manhattan park, met Abel later at a prearranged rendezvous in a theater smoking room. From then on, Hayhanen, Abel and a few underlings passed information and money to one another by using a variety of Hitch-cocky gimmicks. The agents slipped their material into hollowed-out coins, flashlight batteries, pencils and bolts, left them in such courier drops as a lamppost, phone-booth...
...more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall on those who especially relished a Babylon that looked like a New Orleans nightclub or a celestial throne that resembled a Negro...
...McAllen, Abel confessed his identity and his illegal entry into the U.S. But of espionage he would say nothing. Assistant Attorney General William Tompkins sped to New York from Washington, quickly secured the indictment, got Abel shipped back to Brooklyn for arraignment and trial. Soviet diplomats declared that they would have "nothing to do with the case," refused to send Abel a lawyer or a visa. Needing a defense attorney, Abel asked a U.S. marshal to contact "Abt." The only Lawyer Abt in the Manhattan telephone directory is John J. Abt, 53, longtime counsel for Communists. Said Abt: "I know...
Even as Colonel Abel was arraigned in Brooklyn, two members of a second, probably unrelated Soviet spy ring were sentenced in Manhattan to 5½-year prison terms apiece. The two: Confessed Soviet Spies Myra Soble, 53, and Jacob Albam, 65, who escaped stiffer penalties by being "cooperative" with the U.S. Department of Justice. Already, secret testimony from Myra's husband Jack Soble has fingered two members of the ever-widening ring: onetime U.S. Army Intelligence Officer George Zlatovski and his wife Jane, now in Paris (TIME, July 22). According to U.S. officials, Jack Soble, tempted by the prospect...