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...physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer who helped engineer the 1962 swap of American U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, also across the Glienicker Bridge. Soon Vogel was dealing as well for Bulgarian Penyu Kostadinov, indicted in 1983 for buying nuclear weapons secrets in New York City, and for Alice Mickelson, an East German arrested last year at New York's Kennedy Airport in a smuggling attempt...
Secret agents, once their work is done, are lionized in the U.S.S.R. Richard Sorge, a German who spied for Joseph Stalin in Japan during World War II, is honored on a postage stamp. Rudolph Abel, one of the most notorious Soviet agents of the '50s, was awarded the Order of Lenin after he was traded for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962. KGB anniversaries are occasions for rallies and testimonials. "The competent organs," a common euphemism for the intelligence services, make up a kind of superelite. For years it was a basic tenet of Kremlinological wisdom that...
...throws one curve and back on base Willie Harkissian, a wheeler-dealer before he even leaves the womb, is born with his twin, Ben. The agreement: Willie will have "what the world calls brains"; Ben will "get out of this cave first." He will play Abel to Willie's Cain, and also be a deadly left-handed hitter, deadly that when, years later, he slams a teammate's pitch into a dark summer night on a date, he hits Clare Bishop in the forehead and she goes into a coma...
...hour before a Soviet medic examined Nicholson; by then he was dead. The next day, an East German ambulance delivered Nicholson's body to a U.S. honor guard at the center of Berlin's Glienicker Brucke, the bridge at the East-West crossing point where captured Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel was exchanged for downed U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers...
...stranger simply to show that he meant no violence. The most important strangers to be courted with such gifts were the divine forces that brought rain or wind, hence the tradition of sacrifices left hopefully on an altar. The results of such efforts could be vexing. The Lord accepted Abel's offering of sheep but mysteriously rejected Cain's fruit of the ground, and Cain, according to Genesis 4: 5, "was very wroth...