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...Understood. From there the plot thickened-and sickened. A dapper little fellow in a blue trench coat showed up at the apartment a few moments later, introduced himself to Vanya as "Ivan Ivanovich, your brother's driver." He added cryptically: "We have been trying to meet you for two days. We wanted to see you alone-to avoid trouble. You understand?" Vanya was pretty sure he understood. When the pair left, he called...
Donovan came to public attention in 1957 as the defense lawyer for Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, who in the guise of a struggling artist had masterminded a Russian spy ring from a studio in Brooklyn. Donovan did not seek the task-it was assigned to him by the court on the recommendation of a Bar Association committee. But once he took it on, he defended Abel with skill and dedication. He carried the defense to the Supreme Court, succeeded in getting Abel a fairly gentle sentence of 30 years' imprisonment. "In my time on this court," said Chief Justice...
...Fair, worked for the Soviet Amtorg Trading Corp. in 1942. Around the time of the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg spy trial in 1951, the Cohens ducked from sight. The FBI was not looking for them then but for reasons unrevealed, began taking an interest in them during the Rudolf Ivanovich Abel spy case in 1957. When Colonel Abel was convicted as a Russian spy, the FBI sent circulars concerning the elusive Cohens to their counter-intelligence counterparts in Britain...
Died. Marshal Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin, 57, handsome, athletic professional soldier ("a gunner, that's all") and chief of the Soviet Rocket Command; in a plane crash while on an undisclosed mission. A much-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, a deputy Defense Minister and alternate member of the Communist Party Central Committee. Nedelin defended Moscow's western front during the German attack of 1941, later in the war shifted to the Ukraine (where he first gained favor with Khrushchev) and rose swiftly but anonymously through the ranks of artillerymen until Khrushchev casually revealed his top spot last...
...information supplied by a lesser Russian spy in the spring of 1957, the FBI cornered Master Spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55, in a New York hotel room...