Rudolf Abel Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Vilyam Genrikovich FisherRudolf Abel, born July 11, 1903 – died November 15, 1971, is best known as an alias used by Soviet spy Vilyam ("Willie") Genrikovich Fisher.
He was born in 1903 at 140 Clara street, Benwell, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England, the son of a Russian immigrant. His father Genrikh was a keen Bolshevik and took part in clandestine operations shipping arms and literature from the North East coast. He published a book 'V Rossii i v Anglii' in 1922 detailing his life in Newcastle. Willie was eighteen when the family left for the new Soviet Union in 1921. His espionage career is still being researched, but being bilingual was surely a great advantage.
From November, 1948 until his capture in June, 1957 was an undercover spy operating in New York City. He returned to the Soviet Union thanks to a prisoner exchange with CIA pilot Gary Powers on February 10, 1962 at the Glienicke Bridge in Potsdam, Germany.
It was also the real name of another, less well known NKVD agent, who had once shared a flat with Fisher. The real Abel was born in Latvia in 1900 and died in 1955. Not much seems to be publicly known about his career. By adopting that alias on his arrest Fisher was able to signal his capture to the Soviet Government.
Willie Fisher died of cancer in 1971 and is buried next to his father in the Donskoy monastery in Moscow. His gravestone (with photograph) displays both his names. A group of KGB veterans celebrated his centenary at the graveside in 2003.
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