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    The Hollow Nickel Case (or the Hollow Coin) was the FBI investigation that grew out of the discovery of a container disguised as a U.S. coin and containing...
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  • surrendered information on Soviet espionage activities that solved the Hollow Nickel Case for the FBI, and led to the arrest of his KGB partner Rudolf Abel...
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    conspiracy as a Soviet spy for his involvement in what became known as the Hollow Nickel Case and sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary...
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  • Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent about the strange nickel. The FBI was not able to link the nickel to KGB agents until a KGB (Committee on State Security...
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    Applications of microphotography include espionage such as in the Hollow Nickel Case, where they are known as microfilm. Using the daguerreotype process...
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    it was a hand cipher, but its placement in a hollowed out 5¢ coin (later known as the Hollow Nickel Case) implied it could be decoded using pencil and...
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    on April 3, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2018. Famous Cases: Rudolph Ivanovich Abel (Hollow Nickel Case), Federal Bureau of Investigation, archived from the...
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    able to link the nickel to KGB agents, including Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (aka Rudolph Ivanovich Abel) in the Hollow Nickel Case. The deciphered message...
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    (better known by his alias, Rudolf Abel) in what was known as the Hollow Nickel Case. Fisher was convicted on three counts, and on November 15, 1957, Byers...
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  • leaving his post in Moscow in 1953. He was caught in relation to the Hollow Nickel Case as information on him was found on a microfilm. A court-martial found...
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    Donovan defended the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in what was known as the Hollow Nickel Case after many other lawyers refused. He later brought in Thomas M. Debevoise...
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    The Guardian. Retrieved 19 January 2014. "Rudolph Ivanovich Abel (Hollow Nickel Case)". FBI. Archived from the original on 26 November 2015. Retrieved...
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  • book of the same name that focuses more on the prisoner exchanges Hollow Nickel Case Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Touchstone...
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    famously discovered by a paper boy in the "Hollow Nickel Case". U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was issued with a hollow silver dollar containing a tiny, saxitoxin-impregnated...
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  • been convicted of espionage activities against the West during the Hollow Nickel Case, Drozdov (alias Jurgen Drews, Abel's purported German cousin) facilitated...
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    was the largest Federal prison, with a capacity of 3,000 inmates. Inmate case files presented "mini-biographies of men confined in the penitentiary. Prison...
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    A hollow-point bullet is a type of expanding bullet which expands on impact with a soft target, transferring more or all of the projectile's energy into...
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  • States David Karr Farewell Dossier George Trofimoff Gouzenko Affair Hollow Nickel Case Lev Vasilevsky List of Americans in the Venona papers List of Eastern...
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  • who defected to the U.S. during the Cold War; helped break open the Hollow Nickel Case which led to the capture of top Soviet spies in the U.S. looking for...
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  • in 1957 under the alias Rudolf Abel, in what became known as the Hollow Nickel Case. In 1962, he was exchanged for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. The...
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  • Abel v. United States (category United States Fourth Amendment case law)
    portrayed by Tom Hanks, arguing the case before the Supreme Court. "Rudolph Ivanovich Abel (Hollow Nickel Case)". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Archived...
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  • was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall. "The Wrong Nickel" is based on Rudolf Abel and the Hollow Nickel Case. "Escape" includes escape and evasion aids created...
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    enclosed within a jacket of stronger mild steel or copper alloyed with nickel or zinc to reliably impart stabilizing rotation in rifled barrels. The lead-alloy...
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    Danelectro Amp-In-Case, properly known as a semi-hollow body due to its Masonite top and back, with pine outer structure. "All-in-one" Amplifier-Case or Silvertone...
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    nickel as a component of alloys used in the production of earrings – however the ingredients declared by producer are not significant, because nickel...
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    says that Hollow Horn Bear was represented on the buffalo nickel. But, the coin's designer, Janes Earle Frasier, stated "Before the nickel was made I...
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    were shattered to pieces. In neither case was there any sign of a wound of exit. The design of the Mk IV hollow-point bullet shifted bullet weight rearwards...
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    center of every tooth is a hollow area that houses soft tissues, such as the nerve, blood vessels, and connective tissue. This hollow area contains a relatively...
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    Fat Man pit, and those of subsequent models, were all plated with nickel. A hollow pit was considered and known to be more efficient but ultimately rejected...
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