introduction
As Sun Tzu said in the "Chapter on Plotting to Attack": "Know oneself and know the other, and never lose a hundred battles", which means that if we can have a relatively accurate understanding of the strength of the enemy and ourselves, then after the two sides are engaged, the probability of winning the battle will be much greater, and basically there will be no danger. However, in order to understand the situation of the other party, it is necessary to send spies, so the personnel responsible for the espionage mission are extremely dangerous, and once they are discovered, the consequences are unimaginable.
What Ziyuan wants to talk about today is that Abel, a Russian who is proficient in six Chinese words and is known as the "gold medal spy", has completed the task very well every time in his decades of spy career, and the United States and Germany hate him to the bone, but there is nothing they can do. Unexpectedly, when he was on a mission, he was planted in the hands of a child and was arrested and imprisoned by the US side.
Old photo of Rudolf Abel
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Rudolf Abel is the most legendary spy master of the 20th century, because his parents are very talented intellectuals, from an early age he was gifted, influenced by the family environment, not only in music, painting and other aspects of a very high talent, but also proficient in English, Russian and other six Chinese, self-taught radio, drawing and other skills, which laid a very solid foundation for Abel to do espionage work in the future. Although Abel did not go to college because of the war when he was a student, he still got a job as a translator with his excellent language skills. Later, he joined the Russian Army, and eventually by chance, he was exposed to intelligence work and became a brilliant Russian spy.
▲ German army attacking Poland old photos
During the German attack on Poland, Abel was tasked by his superiors, disguised as German expatriates, and finally managed to infiltrate the Nazi organization, spending a full four years and painstakingly gaining the trust of the two intelligence chiefs within the enemy. He skillfully maneuvered between the two intelligence services, using friction in their work to constantly stir up relations between them, from which he obtained a lot of important information, and then cleverly transmitted this information back to Russia. This included photographs of more than a thousand enemies sent to Russia as spies, all before and after the facelift, which enabled the Russian side to quickly arrest all the enemies hidden in the country through the photos, and the Soviet side also praised him many times.
▲ Old photos of american boys selling newspapers
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After Abel successfully completed his intelligence mission in Germany, he returned to Russia for a relatively leisurely time, and soon after, his superiors gave him a new task to go to the United States to carry out espionage work. From then on, he began to lurk in the United States for a long time, but unexpectedly ended up planting on a thirteen-year-old child. The little boy, Boza, was a newspaper seller who often had to go door to door to deliver newspapers, including Abel. At that time, the Newspaper in the United States was 5 cents a copy, and once when Abel was paying for money, one of the 5 cent coins accidentally fell out of his pocket, and Boza hurriedly stepped on it, but he did not expect to step on the edge of this coin, and it cracked, revealing the microfilm inside.
Boza didn't know any film at the time, and thought he was unlucky enough to receive fake money. When he got home, he casually put the cracked coin on the table, and the brother-in-law who lived with him was an agent of the American Police Department, and when he saw this coin, he immediately attracted his great attention, quickly reported it to his superiors, determined that there were spies in the area, and after a large number of secret investigations, successfully captured a number of Russian spies lurking in the area. Abel's identity as a spy was also exposed, and he was eventually arrested by the United States in a tavern, and then sentenced to thirty years in prison, although the Russian side repeatedly tried to rescue the ace spy, but was blocked by the United States, and ultimately did not succeed.
▲ Old photos of the Moscow Kremlin in the Soviet Union
It was not until later, when Russia shot down an American spy plane and successfully captured an American pilot, that the cost of training a pilot was very expensive in those days, and finally Russia and the United States reached an agreement and agreed to exchange hostages, and Abel was fortunate to be rescued back to Russia. After returning to China, he continued to engage in espionage training based on his lifelong experience as well as espionage technology, and did his best to train a new generation of Russian spy intelligence personnel, and finally died in Moscow at the age of sixty-eight.
summary
As "Yong Yi Tongyi" said: "A hundred dense and one sparse, there will eventually be a leak", even in the most elaborate plan, there will always be some small omissions, there will be some non-subjective negligence, but the scheming Abel himself did not think that in many times deep into the enemy camp to spy on intelligence, you can retreat completely, the last mission, the negligence in the small coin will be discovered by a child, and finally planted in his hands.
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Ace Spy: Rudolf Abel