Word: abell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment, plus $3,000 in fines, by a federal court in New York City: stony-faced Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55, who, posing as an artist, served for nine years as one of the top Red spies in the U.S., until federal agents searched his Brooklyn studio and found an array of such spy-novel devices as hollowed-out coins and cuff1 links (TIME, Aug. 19 et seg.). Under the law, Abel could have been sentenced to death, but Judge Mortimer W. Byers apparently heeded the defense attorney's arguments that Abel might talk...
...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...
NKVD-trained Hayhanen finally got fed up with the job. According to his story, Moscow ordered Abel and Hayhanen to give $5,000 to the wife of convicted Atom Spy Morton Sobell, serving a 30-year term in Alcatraz. Finding Helen Sobell's Manhattan apartment well guarded by police, they buried the money 45 miles away in a state park. Hayhanen later reported to Moscow that he had actually delivered the money to Mrs. Sobell. Moscow sent another $5,000 for Mrs. Sobell, and suggested that she be recruited for spying. Abel banked this $5,000. Hayhanen then...
Quebec's Garage. Hayhanen's testimony brought not a flicker of reaction from impassive Spymaster Abel. Government lawyers hinted that even more damning evidence would be forthcoming. One agent whom Hayhanen had been told to contact was code-named "Quebec." He was, in fact, U.S. Army Sergeant Roy Rhodes, who had once worked in the garage of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and, according to a message from Moscow, had been recruited "on the basis of compromising materials." Try as he could, Hayhanen could never locate Roy Rhodes. But U.S. authorities found him. He was scheduled to take...