College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 17, 1971
THE BATTALION
Russian spy Abel dies in Moscow
MOSCOW OS’) — Col. Rudolf
Abel, once the Kremlin’s top U.S.
spy who for nine years directed a
network of Soviet agents from
his artist’s studio in Brooklyn,
has died of lung cancer here, re
liable sources reported Tuesday.
They said Abel died Monday
after a six-month bout with the
disease. He was 68.
Abel, probably the most im
portant spy ever caught in the
United States operated from 1948
until 1957, when he was betrayed
by an assistant, arrested and sen
tenced to 30 years in prison.
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He had a mild manner, sharp
nose and penetrating eyes. He
arrived in the United States from
Canada with false identity papers
and quietly went about setting
himself up as a photographer and
artist in Brooklyn.
At the same time he was as
sembling a network of reliable
agents to supply him with U.S.
military secrets.
His studio was a cluttered $35-
a-month room where neighbors
knew him as an aspiring artist
who earned his living taking pic
tures and dabbling in radio re
pair. Abel went by the name of
Emil R. Goldfus.
Although he did turn out some
oil paintings, his photographic
equipment was used mainly to
microfilm defense data. He used
such objects as hollowed-out
coins, pencils, nails and cufflinks
in which to hide the film.
Located just across the street
from the federal courthouse where
he was tried in 1957, Abel received
radioed messages from Moscow on
his shortwave equipment and com
municated with his subordinate
agents through a complex system
of codes, couriers and secret
drops.
In 1962, when his 30-year pris
on term was still young, Abel was
exchanged for Francis Gary Pow
ers, the American pilot whose U2
spy plane was shot down by the
Russians May 1, 1960, over Sver
dlovsk in western Siberia.
The incident wrecked a 1960
Paris summit conference involving
President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of
the Soviet Union, Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan of Britain and
President Charles de Gaulle of
France.
Powers was convicted of es
pionage in Moscow and sentenced
to 10 years in prison. The swap
was negotiated and the men were
exchanged Feb. 10, 1962 on a
bridge between East and West
Berlin.
Abel lived in obscurity after
his return to Moscow and report
edly worked as a propagandist
and recruiter for the Soviet se
cret police, with spare time for
playing Bach on the lute and clas
sical guitar.
In 1966, the retired master spy
told his story to a Soviet maga
zine.
“Intelligence work is not a se
ries of rip-roaring adventures, a
string of tricks or an entertain
ing trip aboard,” Abel wrote. “It
is, above all, arduous, painstaking
work which calls for an intense
effort, perseverance, stamina, for
titude, will power, serious knowl
edge and great mastery.”
Attica conditions worse now, prisoner says
ATTICA, N.Y. <A>> _ One of
the first newsmen to enter Attica
State Prison since a bloody in
mate revolt two months ago has
been told by a prisoner that con
ditions at the facility are worse
now than before the disturbance.
“As for conditions, they’re
worse. They’re worse than they
were before,” inmate Steve Bar
ney told newsmen Stewart Dan
of Buffalo’s WGR-TV in a tele
vised interview.
Barney, 21, is a Buffalo resi
dent who is serving four years
on a burglary conviction.
Dan and a Buffalo Evening
News reporter were admitted to
the prison Monday under state
Department of Corrections rules
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were physically mistreated by
British troops and security police
but said this treatment fell short
of brutality or torture.
The inquiry upheld charges that
11 men under antiterrorist inter
rogation were forced to stand
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Six others, it said, were fright-
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out of a helicopter at a detention
center. One was roughed up, hood
ed and bound tightly by the
wrists during arrest and another
was accidentally hit by a rubber
bullet.
These 19 cases constituted ill-
treatment, the inquiry committee
said. Eighteen others suffered
hardship. But the commission
added: “We are not making a
finding of brutality.”
Brutality, it said, meant in
human or savage cruelty with
indifference or pleasure toward
the victim’s pain.
The inquiry investigated re
ports that brutality or torture
was suffered by 40 of the 342
men arrested in Northern Ire
land’s Aug. 9 internment round
up. It is continuing inquiries into
tary Reginald Maudling, the Cab
inet minister with day-to-day
control of Northern Ireland’s af
fairs.
The commission spent 56 days
inquiring into charges involving
only the 342 arrested in the first
swoop, of whom 105 were later
released.
The findings were published in
a government White Paper pre
sented to Parliament by Maudling
this afternoon.
In a prepared statement to the
House of Commons, Maudling in
sisted that high-pressure inter
rogation was essential to fight
terrorists.
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quickly as possible to effect
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lives of members of the security iy Mental
forces and of the civil population.'
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Collegium Musicum will perform tonigh
Collegium Musicum will turn
back the pages of musical history
500 to 600 years tonight in an
Artist Showcase performance at
A&M.
The University of Texas-Austin
organization directed by Dr. Gil
bert L. Blount plays Medieval,
Renaissance and Baroque era mu-
allegations on behalf of men ar-' s ^ c on instruments of the period.
rested since August 9.
More than 900 men now have
been arrested under the tough
Special Powers Act in the battle
against the outlawed Irish Repub
lican Army—the IRA. The IRA
is fighting to drive out British
troops and unite Ulster with
southern Ireland by force. Two
years of violence have so far
claimed 158 lives.
Of those arrested, at least 476
have been released. The rest are
being held as IRA suspects with
out trial in jails and internment
camps.
The three-man inquiry commis
sion was set up by Home Secre-
Period costumes also add a col
orful touch to the Musicum, which
has performed all over the U. S.
The concert at A&M will be at
8 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom, announced Town
Hall chairman Kirk Hawkins. Art
ist Showcase, a part of the Town
Hall programming, admits pa
trons by Town Hall season ticket,
student activity card or separate
ticket sold at the MSC Student
Program Office.
Collegium Musicum supports
graduate and undergraduate in
struction in music history and
“serves as a kind of proving
ground for historical works trans
cribed in early music seminars,”
Dr. Blount said.
Membership consists of faculty
and students from various UT
campus departments, as well as
the Music Department of the Fine
Arts College, and interested
townspeople.
Instruments played by the en
semble include consorts of record
ers, crumhorns, shawms, sack-
huts, zinks, Rauschpfeifen, Medie
val cup bells, a nine-course Ren
aissance lute, minstrel harp, harp
sichord and clavichord, among
others.
The UT Musicum instrumenta
tion is obtained through Director
Blount’s personal collection, pri
vate purchases by dedicated grad
uate students and special order
instniments build in Europe.
The Collegium’s repertoire
draws on historical editions, com
plete works and manuscripts sur
viving from the Medieval, Renais
sance and Baroque eras. Music
performed is the work of compos
ers such as Adam de la Halle,
Philippe de Vitry, Machaut, Py-
gott, Brown, Telemann and many
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It has provided background mu
sic for a Texas Department oi
Parks and Wildlife film and fur
nished tape recorded 15th and
17th Century music selections for
scholarly paper presentations.
The UT group has about 50 par
ticipants, but a smaller group
travels for off-campus concerts.
Hopkins presents
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