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Rudolf Abel
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Soviet intelligence officer (1903–1971)
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- Menschen und ihr Werk
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- Die gesundheitlich wichtigen Verhältnisse und Einrichtungen der deutschen Seebadeorte
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Key facts
- Born
- William August Fisher , ( 1903-07-11 ) 11 July 1903, Benwell , Northumberland , England
- Died
- 15 November 1971 (1971-11-15) (aged 68), Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Burial place
- Donskoye Cemetery
- Spouse
- Elena Stepanovna Lebedeva ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 )
- Awards
- Order of the Red Banner
- Allegiance
- Soviet Union
- Rank
- Colonel
- Codename
- Andrew Yurgesovich Kayotis
- Operations
- World War II , (1944–1945), Soviet Cold War spy, (1948–1957)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- The Soviet Union 1990 CPA 6265 stamp (Soviet Intelligence Agents. Rudolf Abel).jpg
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- Rudolf Abel
- date of birth
- 1903-07-11
- date of death
- 1971-11-15
- birth name
- William August Fisher
- pseudonym
- Rudolf Abel
- short name
- William Fisher
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William August Fisher (11 July 1903 – 15 November 1971), better known by the alias Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (Russian: Рудольф Иванович Абель), was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when he was arrested in the USA on charges of espionage by the FBI in 1957.
Fisher was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England in the United Kingdom to Russian émigré parents. He moved to Russia in the 1920s, and served in the Soviet military before undertaking foreign service as a radio operator in Soviet intelligence in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He later served in an instructional role before taking part in intelligence operations against the Germans during World War II. After the war, he began working for the KGB, which sent him to the United States where he worked as part of a spy ring based in New York City.