Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (Russian: Рудольф Иванович Абель) is the alias of William August Fisher (11 July 1903 – 15 November 1971), a Soviet intelligence...
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spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960—in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a convicted Soviet KGB spy held by the United States, whom Donovan represented...
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Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015). He subsequently collaborated...
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(2008) and Henry Condell in Anonymous (2011). For his performance as Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies (2015) he won...
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Francis Gary Powers and American student Frederic Pryor for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, and for negotiating the 1962 release and return of 9,703 prisoners held...
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American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel. He spent the bulk of his career as a member of the Swarthmore College...
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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies (2015). He won...
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Hollow Nickel Case for the FBI, and led to the arrest of his KGB partner Rudolf Abel and other Soviet spies in the United States and Canada. Reino Häyhänen...
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February 1962, in a prisoner exchange for Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel. In July 1958, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower requested permission...
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opposed exchanging Powers for Soviet KGB Colonel William Fisher, known as "Rudolf Abel", who had been caught by the FBI in the Hollow Nickel Case and tried...
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acknowledgment of its U-2 flights and the exchange of Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel in 1962 implied the legitimacy of some espionage as an arm of foreign...
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which they are spying. Examples of two famous Soviet "illegals" are Rudolf Abel, who operated in the United States; and Gordon Lonsdale, who was born...
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Donskoy Cemetery in Moscow next to Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher (aka Colonel Rudolf Abel). A 1968 film Dead Season was based on Molody's mission in the UK. Molody...
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Gary Powers for convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Pryor's release happens offscreen while the trade of Powers for Abel takes place at the Glienicke Bridge...
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pilot Francis Gary Powers by the Soviet Union in exchange for KGB spy Rudolf Abel. In April 2016, Hanks starred as Alan Clay in the comedy-drama A Hologram...
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Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) in exchange for the convicted KGB spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance). Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch, and Amy Ryan feature in supporting...
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three years in prison before being exchanged in 1962 for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Upon return he was debriefed extensively. 26 April 1962: First flight...
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in the CPUSA hampered recruitment. The last major illegal resident, Rudolf Abel (Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher/"Willie" Vilyam Fishers), was betrayed by...
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Rudolph (name) (redirect from Rudolf)
Rudolf Albanian: Rudolf Arabic: رُودُلْف, romanized: rūdulf Armenian: Ռուդոլֆ (Rudolf) Catalan: Rodolf Croatian: Rudolf Czech: Rudolf Danish: Rudolf Dutch:...
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most valuable sources of the Rezidentura. They began working with Col. Rudolf Abel up to 1950, when they secretly left the United States and moved to Lublin...
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White Maria Wicher Nathan Witt Flora Wovschin Anatoli Yatskov Cold War Rudolf Abel Aldrich Ames David Sheldon Boone Christopher John Boyce Thomas Patrick...
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White Maria Wicher Nathan Witt Flora Wovschin Anatoli Yatskov Cold War Rudolf Abel Aldrich Ames David Sheldon Boone Christopher John Boyce Thomas Patrick...
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organs appeared, and Soviet spies became heroes in print and cinema — Rudolf Abel, Gordon Lonsdale, Harold (Kim) Philby, and Richard Sorge. In October...
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grandmothers and in a children's home. They were adopted by the communist activist Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne and assumed the Meeropol surname. After Sobell's...
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White Maria Wicher Nathan Witt Flora Wovschin Anatoli Yatskov Cold War Rudolf Abel Aldrich Ames David Sheldon Boone Christopher John Boyce Thomas Patrick...
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July 1945. In the 1950s, Perseus was supposedly under the control of Rudolf Abel. According to one source, Perseus was supposedly still alive in 1991...
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White Maria Wicher Nathan Witt Flora Wovschin Anatoli Yatskov Cold War Rudolf Abel Aldrich Ames David Sheldon Boone Christopher John Boyce Thomas Patrick...
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an American lawyer who in 1962 negotiated the exchange of Soviet spy Rudolf Abel for the captured pilot of a downed U-2 spy plane, Francis Gary Powers...
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Birdman Mark Ruffalo David Schultz Foxcatcher 2015 (88th) Mark Rylance ‡ Rudolf Abel Bridge of Spies Christian Bale Michael Burry The Big Short Tom Hardy...
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