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Portrait of the Artist, as a Spy
Emil Goldfus was an accomplished artist and photographer with a studio in Brooklyn. But he was really KGB Colonel Rudolf Abel who ran an extensive spy network for nine years, until arrested in 1957.
Although sentenced to 45 years, Abel never talkers. Instead, he drew -- recording prison life -- and, he was lucky. In 1962, he was exchanged for American U2 pilot Gary Powers on the Glienicker Bridge in Berlin, and returned to the USSR.
Soviet spy Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was led in handcuffs from his espionage trial. |