It was a cold, cloudy morning in Berlin. Just before 8 o’clock, five blue-grey German-made sedans pulled up at the western end of Glienicker Brücke. the steel-trussed bridge that spans the sleepy ...

Rudolph Abel, Jr., passed away peacefully on Saturday morning September 21, 2024 in Sarasota, Florida. Rudy was born and attended public schools in Berlin, Connecticut. He graduated from Berlin High ...

In 1957, Vilyam “Willie” Genrikhovich Fisher (a.k.a. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel) was convicted of conspiracy to “act in the United ...

James Donovan (Tom Hanks) and Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) meeting in Abel's cell. From "Bridge of Spies. Image courtesy of DreamWorks "Bridge of Spies" never dehumanizes the enemies of the U.S., nor ...

Lawyer Kuhne (Business Bribes) delivers a no-thrills account of Rudolf Abel’s espionage activities in America from 1948 to his arrest in 1957. A colonel in the KGB, Abel was “a perfectionist” who came ...

In 1957, lawyer James B. Donovan is recruited from his prestigious law firm to defend accused Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. It's an unenviable task in many respects. Donovan hasn't practiced criminal law ...

The shabby, bird-faced man stood silently before Federal Judge Matthew Abruzzo in Brooklyn’s U.S. District Court as he was arraigned, occasionally rubbed the handcuffs on his wrists, momentarily ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Anthony Palermo was an Attorney for the Department of Justice with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2015 Forum. Scholars talked about the ...

Sixty years ago before the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, Washington and Moscow made perhaps the most famous prisoner swap in U.S. history, when the Soviet Union released a CIA pilot who had ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jeffrey Kahn is a Professor for Law School in the Southern Methodist University with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2015 Forum. Scholars ...