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Spies, or covert fronts, train many spies in every country in every era, and spies are vital to the interests of a country. During the war years, spies were like eyes planted in the enemy camp, unaware but unexpected, and could influence the war situation if necessary.
Rudolf Abel, the most successful spy master of the Soviet Union in the 20th century, known as the "man with a thousand faces", he lurked in Germany and the United States for decades, deep in espionage, good at camouflage, and provided the Soviet Union with a lot of top-secret intelligence.
Abel is not only fluent in English, Russian, German, Polish and other Chinese, but also has a profound knowledge and understanding of radio. He had all the necessary elements and conditions to be a spy.
In 1927, Abel was selected by the Soviet State Political Security Bureau to carry out intelligence missions in Britain, France and other countries, received training, and officially became a professional spy for the "KGB". Disguised as a German expatriate interested in Nazism, he entered Latvia and successfully broke into the Gestapo, blended into the top of the SS Reichstag's Führer Security Corps, and laid out his own intelligence network. With his outstanding abilities and achievements, he gained the full trust of the two major organizations, and by exploiting the contradictions between the two, he sow discord, so as to provide the Soviet Union with many of the Nazis' most secret information.
His espionage career has two brilliant legends, the first is to stop the "Whirlwind" plan, which captures all the German troops who are sabotaging in the territory, and the second is to obtain a list of more than 1,000 spies planted by the Nazis in various countries and give to the Soviet Union.
The first glory came in the summer of 1944, when German Army Chief of Staff Klebs worked with Nazi intelligence to develop the "Whirlwind" plan, which Germany intended to secretly penetrate deep into the Soviet rear and bring bad things to the Soviet Union. After Abel grasped the information, he promptly notified the Soviet Union, and his spy subordinates pretended to be Captain Schwarzburg and dropped them into the Soviet Union, bringing 30 German troops into an ambush circle. Although he was recognized in the middle, he adapted and successfully solved the difficulty. In the end, the German conspiracy did not succeed.
The second glory was when Nazi Germany turned more than 1,000 Nazi spies into prisoners, then killed the prisoners, and finally let Nazi spies pretending to be prisoners lurk in European countries, using new identities to collect intelligence. After learning this, Abel used a miniature camera to take information about more than 1,000 people and their photos after plastic surgery, and secretly transmitted them back to the Soviet Union, contributing to the Soviet military.
So why did the mighty Abel finally come to light? The reason is unexpected, it is a 5-cent coin. In 1953, newsboy James Boza accidentally found a 5-cent coin containing a small roll of miniature film while delivering a newspaper in Brooklyn. After four years of investigation, in 1957 the FBI arrested several Soviet spies, tortured Mark as Abel, and then arrested him. In 1960, American reconnaissance planes were shot down while secretly scouting the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union took pilot Bowles to negotiate with the United States. In 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union exchanged hostages at the same time, and Abel returned to the Soviet Union. After returning to the Soviet Union, Abel did not retire, but passed on his experience in intelligence to the next generation.
Rudolf Abel, as an excellent master spy, exerted his strength in war, eliminated danger for his country, and gave the country an advantageous position in the military. He was a genius and a patriotic talent.