Wilhelm Fischer

Protagonist

Wilhelm (William) Fischer / “Rudolf Abel”

Period

1948-1957

Nature

Illegal

Main location

Brooklyn, New York · United States

MICE motive

Ideology — conviction

A KGB illegal colonel, Fischer operated for years in Brooklyn under cover as a painter, coordinating Soviet atomic espionage. Arrested in 1957, he was exchanged on 10 February 1962 on the Glienicke Bridge for the American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers.