We often see spies in spy dramas, they look ordinary, but they are an important part of the transmission of information in war. We often say that knowing oneself and knowing one's enemy is victorious, and it is precisely because of the transmission of information by these spies that we can better understand the enemy. But the danger of these people's work is also very high. Today we will tell the story of a perfect spy, decades of spy career, excellent completion of many tasks, but finally planted in the hands of a 13-year-old child.
The man's name was Rudolf Abel, the most legendary spy master of the 20th century, and his parents were both Russian. Abel's father was a revolutionary during the Tsarist Russia period, and was forced to leave his hometown because of his anti-Tsarism and came to England with his family. While living in England, Abel's father continued to engage in revolutionary activities, helping revolutionaries in Russia. His experiences as a young man had a huge impact on Abel and laid the foundation for his future espionage work.
Abel's parents are very talented intellectuals, Abel is very smart, under the education of his parents, Abel has shown outstanding talent in music, painting, mathematics and other aspects when he was a child, not only can play the piano, play guitar, but also speak English, Russian, German and other six Chinese, the key is that there is no accent, very pure. In addition, Abel also learned radio, drawing, etc., and this skill was sufficient preparation for his future espionage work.
Abel later returned to Russia with his family, and although he did not attend university, his excellent language skills earned him a job as a translator, and then joined the army, where he was exposed to intelligence work by chance.
When Germany attacked Poland, the 36-year-old Abel was tasked with disguising himself as a German expatriate and infiltrating the Nazis. Abel has a new identity, an auto mechanic whose parents have died, and successfully blended into the lives of ordinary Germans. It took Abel four years to gain the trust of the enemy's two intelligence services, and he used the friction between the two departments to stir up relations between them, and from it he got a lot of important information, which was transmitted back to Russia, including more than a thousand photographs of the enemy spies before and after plastic surgery, and with these photos, the Soviet Union quickly captured these enemies hidden in the country.
After the successful completion of the German mission, Abel secretly returned home and could have lived a peaceful life, but soon his second mission came again, requiring him to go to the United States for espionage missions. Originally, Abel relied on his status as a painter and his work in the United States went very well. But because of other people's mistakes in work, he also planted on a 13-year-old child.
At that time, the newspapers in the United States were all 5 cents a copy, and the 13-year-old newspaper boy Boza went door to door as usual to deliver newspapers to people, and on the road, when Boza was paying for money, one of the 5-cent coins fell out and rolled on the ground, Boza stepped on the coin with one foot, and as a result, the coin was cracked, revealing the microfilm inside, Boza did not realize what the film did, and thought that he was unlucky to receive fake money.
When Boza returned home, he casually placed the cracked coin on the table, and happened to be seen by his sister. Boza's sister was immediately alert and showed it to her husband, who was a police agent. In this way, with the exposure of microfilm, the Us side learned of the existence of spies in the area, and conducted a secret investigation, and later successfully captured several Russian spies, if it were not for being betrayed, Abel's identity may not have been exposed.
Among the several Russian spies caught, One named Renault Herhalen confessed Abel's descendants and place of residence, helping the police narrow down the search again, and eventually Abel was arrested and imprisoned at a tavern and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Abel's imprisonment is undoubtedly a huge loss for Russia, and they are also trying to rescue Abel, which has been blocked by the United States.
Fortunately, Abel was lucky, Russia later shot down a SPY plane from the United States, and captured the pilot of the other side, knowing that the cost of training a pilot is very expensive, Russia negotiated with the American side with this pilot, and finally the United States agreed to carry out hostage swaps, which saved Abel back to China. After Abel returned to China, he spent the rest of his life teaching the spy experience and techniques he had experienced throughout his life to the younger generation.
I have to admire Abel, alone into the enemy camp, to obtain one important intelligence after another, which not only requires him to have a cool head, excellent technology, but also need to have good acting skills, work under the eyes of the enemy, any little difference pool will put himself in danger, Abel such a gold spy, and finally planted in the hands of a 13-year-old child, ruined on a small coin.