Rudolf Abel

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What Wikipedia says

William August Fisher (11 July 1903 – 15 November 1971), better known by the alias Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (Russian: Рудольф Иванович Абель), was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when he was arrested in the USA on charges of espionage by the FBI in 1957.

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