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The Real Story of Rudolph Abel: An Interview with Vin Arthey

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Vin Arthey, who has spent most of his adult life researching the life of KGB Colonel William Fisher – better known as Rudolf Abel. Working with secret sources and inside information, Arthey turned this lifelong study into a fascinating book, Abel: The True Story of the Spy They Swapped for Gary Powers. Houghton and Arthey trace the adventures (and misadventures) of one of the most extraordinary characters in the history of the Cold War.

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hunters. security today. Hi and welcome to an authority briefing from the International Spy Museum. I'm Dr Vince Houghton, the museum's

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historian and curator. Here at the spy museum we get the world's most interesting authors,

1:08.6

including journalists, scholars, and former spies and intelligence officers coming in to answer questions about their

1:14.4

latest works dealing with espionage, intelligence, and other national security issues.

1:19.3

Please join me in listening to another of our selected authorly briefings.

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So I'd like to welcome back all those who have been tuning in a spy cast in the past and welcome anyone who is listening for the first time. If you are, please

1:37.0

take a second to check out what we've done in earlier podcast. I think you'll really enjoy

1:40.5

it. One part of my job as a historian curator of the International

1:44.1

Spy Museum is hosting this podcast, but a fairly significant part of my job is

1:48.0

also talking to the public about popular representation of his intelligence that are

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shown by

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Hollywood. Sometimes these are movies like James Bond, Jason Bourne,

1:56.6

and Mission Impossible series, sometimes a result of the many TV shows that are on today

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or have been on in the recent past such as Homeland

2:03.7

24 alias the Americans etc goes on and on the reason I bring this up is that

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