As an American lawyer, James Donovan adhered to the principle of fairness and justice, and tried his best to defend Abel without fear of pressure. There, Abel gradually began to appreciate James's integrity and lofty qualities.
Although they finally lost the lawsuit, they have since established a subtle friendship.
A few years later, the U.S. U2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet Union while performing a secret mission, and the American pilot became a prisoner after parachuting.
At this time, James Donovan happened to be employed by the CIA. As a member of the American delegation, he negotiated with the Soviet Union and negotiated with the Soviet side on the terms of exchanging prisoners.
Obviously, Abel, the "spy king" of the Soviet KGB, is in the hands of the United States and is the heaviest bargaining chip of the United States.
At the end of the film, the prisoner exchange place is chosen on the light rail bridge connecting East and West Berlin. This is the moral of the movie title "bridge of spies".
In fact, Donovan, an American lawyer, Abel, the boss of KGB, and Bowles, the U2 pilot in bridge of spies, are all real people, and the relevant plots have basically happened in history. Through dramatic re-creation, this film captures the chilling atmosphere and characters of the Cold War.
After all, this movie was released on 20 15. The historical exchange of prisoners of war between the United States and the Soviet Union took place in the early 1960s, and many witnesses are still alive. So we have done our homework in restoring history.
To say that this rudolf abel is a wooden old man who looks at photos, in fact, his old man's house is called "The Thousand Faces Man" and has always been regarded as a textbook figure of the Secret Service.
Abel's spy "undercover" career began in 1939 before the Great Patriotic War.
1939 September 1, Germany attacked Poland and World War II broke out. Subsequently, the Soviet Union and Germany "amicably" carved up Poland, and two countries that were originally far apart began to "border".
In this situation, Beard was extremely nervous about the movement of Beard, and sent a number of agents to secretly sneak into Poland, trying to penetrate into the Nazi.
And our male master rudolf abel happens to be an agent of Cheka (predecessor of KGB) at the moment.
On the one hand, it can be seen from the typical German name "Rudolph" that he belongs to a German-born Soviet.
What's more, Abel can speak Polish, English, French and Latvian besides German and Russian. He is good at painting and playing the piano. At the same time, he is proficient in the very fashionable radio technology, and his physical strength and energy are also quite extraordinary.
Moreover, Abel's political examination conditions are particularly excellent. His father was Lenin's classmate in St. Petersburg Vocational and Technical College, and they engaged in urban riots against Russian rule together.
Under the arrangement of the organization, Abel went to Latvia as a German and Polish national, where he joined the SS. Then along the way, I was brave and fearless on the battlefield and won an iron cross; On weekdays, he is also particularly good at "acting", and his fanatical Nazi "feelings" make him quite appreciated and trusted by his boss.
In those years when he was lurking in the Nazi camp, Abel often had access to the confidential documents of Nazi high-level officials, including the secret cables from the Gestapo boss, the Governor of the Third Reich of Czechoslovakia and heydrich to and from Berlin.
1at the end of April, 945, Abel retreated to Moscow intact amid the rumble of Soviet conquest of Berlin.
However, Abel's mission did not end there. From 65438 to 0946, Abel accepted the important mission of "lurking" in the United States-obtaining information about atomic bombs in order to break the monopoly of nuclear weapons in the United States.
Abel, after two years of wandering in Canada, landed in new york Port on June 5th with the passport of Andrei Kayotis, an American citizen. 1948 165438.
This is because, on the one hand, Abel's identity background as Kayotis should be accumulated, and on the other hand, he should be fully aware of his feelings as a North American, so as not to expose himself in the subsequent lurking.
It can be seen that the Soviet side attaches great importance to this latent task. Even a talented broker like Abel has to "warm up" for two years before he can officially "take up his post".
Although Abel set foot on American soil for the first time, he didn't behave like an American, and even Americans themselves didn't believe him.
In new york, which Abel is very familiar with, it is difficult for a middle-aged artist like him to attract people's attention by grabbing in the street. What's more, Abel really has two brushes, painting and photography, and he is quite professional in art.
Abel will often leave new york to "travel". Before he left, he always told his friends in the art circle that he wanted to escape from new york's "cage" and look for creative inspiration in nature.
Obviously, secretly, he either went to see the "informant" or visited various intelligence activities and accepted the "report" from his agents. I can really draw some works of art as my own "collecting wind" achievement.
1On August 29th, 949, the first atomic bomb of the Soviet Union exploded successfully, and Abel was awarded the Red Flag Medal. Since then, Abel's intelligence network has continued to provide information to the Soviet Union, and his agents have become more and more.
Unexpectedly, a few years later, Abel's latent career was ended by a poor "pig teammate" subordinate.
1one night in the summer of 953, a boy named James boza 13 years old was selling newspapers in Brooklyn. When James finished his work, a five-cent coin fell and rolled away. He caught up with it and stepped on it with his foot, but the coin cracked. To his surprise, there is a miniature movie in it.
James took this strange coin to his brother-in-law, who is a special agent in the FBI.
Subsequently, the FBI detected that the numbers on the film were typed with Cyrillic typewriters made in the Soviet Union, but the code breakers tried their best to crack them and the clues were interrupted.
The only certainty is that there is a Soviet spy wandering in Brooklyn, new york. It may be that he accidentally spent this special coin.
Obviously, the FBI's judgment is very accurate.
The agent's name is Renault Hanan, and he is an assistant sent by the Soviet Union to Abel. He speaks fluent American English and claims to have been a Finnish agent. After a series of tests, the Soviet Union thought that this man was plain and even a little silly, but his mind was flexible and alert, and his psychological quality was good, which was especially suitable for lurking in the United States for a long time. So he arranged for Abel's men to take Abel's instructions.
Ironically, no one expected that this Hanan was a very addicted alcoholic. When he is awake, he looks very reliable and capable. Once he had a few drinks, he immediately showed his true colors. Moreover, the so-called "resume" of acting as an agent in Finland was also fabricated by him according to hearsay.
The aforementioned microfilm was Abel's first instruction to Hanan at the end of 1952+00. However, Ha Hanan, who was fascinated by the colorful world in new york, got as drunk as a fiddler for a while and spent this joint coin as change in a daze.
After more than eight months' turnover in new york, this coin fell into the hands of the newsboy in July, 1953, and finally leaked the clues.
Fortunately, the password is still strong, and the entire Soviet spy network in the United States has not been damaged by the exposure of this coin. The following year, the Cheka of the Soviet Union was officially reorganized into a "resounding" KGB-KGB.
In the following years, Hai Hannan made many mistakes in his work, and also misappropriated activities funds to drink and attract prostitutes. Unbearable, Abel, after combining with his superiors, bought a boat ticket and arranged for him to return to the Soviet Union in April 1957.
On the ship back to the Soviet Union, Heihannan knew that the KGB had mastered his mission failure and forged his resume, and that he might be digging in a Siberian labor camp for the rest of his life when he returned.
So, on the way to France, Hai Hannan ran into the American Embassy and "defected". He said that he was a KGB stationed in the United States and had important information to provide.
But seeing Hanan's silly appearance and drunken appearance, Americans didn't believe him very much, and only conducted some routine inspections on him. It turns out that Hanan is just a suicidal alcoholic who wants to kick him out immediately. In desperation, Hahanan claimed to be able to decipher the Soviet code and took out a hollow coin with film in it from his pocket.
At this time, the staff of the American embassy realized that the opportunity for meritorious service had come, and quickly escorted him back to the United States and handed him over to the FBI.
The FBI agents suddenly thought of the hollow coin case a few years ago, so they took the film from the coin four years ago and let Hanan wake up and decipher it. As a result, he really read it.
Although Heihannan didn't know Abel's specific address, he provided enough information for the FBI to find Abel.
On June 2 1 957, federal agents broke into Abel's house.
Abel was quite calm in the face of the agents who broke into the house. When he asked to go to the toilet, he took the opportunity to flush the microfilm with him into the sewer unnoticed. Naturally, when he was packing, he "accidentally" spilled paint on the paper with a note, and the film hidden in the tie clip fell to the ground and broke. There is no direct evidence about him at this point.
Although the FBI is convinced that Abel is a big fish, it just failed to seize the evidence at the first time and the first scene.
The United States had to find several anti-spy psychologists to urge Abel to cooperate. They threatened the "case" in which the Rosenbergs were executed by electrocution, and "seduced" them with an annual salary of 1 1000 dollars.
At the same time, out of the superficial slogan of "human rights" and fear of the Soviet Union, the US government appointed a defense lawyer for him. I thought I was just pretending, but I accidentally chose James Donovan. There is the relevant plot in bridge of spies mentioned at the beginning.
In the end, even though Abel had a strong psychological quality and didn't say anything, James Donovan made special efforts to prove and defend him. Abel was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment by the US federal court for espionage.
At first, Abel thought he would spend his life in prison, but after a few years, his fate became better.
1 960 On May1,an American U2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet Union. Pilot Bowles became a Soviet prisoner of war after parachuting. Under the joint intimidation and inducement of the Soviet military and KGB, Bowles quickly confessed everything he knew.
There, the FBI and the CIA also had a heated debate on whether to exchange Abel for Bowles.
The FBI still hopes Abel will finally cooperate with the United States, so it opposes the exchange. The CIA is eager to know what Bowles "said" to the Soviet Union, and also wants to find out what happened in the air that year, and what secret weapons and tactics the Soviets used to shoot down the highest flying reconnaissance plane in the world.
After weighing for more than a year, President Kennedy "decided"-let's change it.
On the one hand, the United States hopes to ease relations with the Soviet Union; At the same time, they also understand that Abel's belief is very firm, and the possibility of letting him betray the Soviet Union and reveal secrets is very slim.
On the morning of February 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union completed the exchange at the junction of East and West Berlin. This is the end of the movie bridge of spies.
According to historical records, the scene of James Donovan and Abel saying goodbye in the film is really touching. However, when he left, Abel, who has always been serious, played a joke on Donovan-"Do you know how much the Soviet government gives me every year? 1 ten thousand dollars! "
Then, he calmly crossed the white line at the junction of East and West Berlin. Soviet comrades hugged Abel, and they got off the bridge, got on the bus and drove to a hut where Abel's wife and daughter were waiting for him.
There is still no official conclusion about the whereabouts of "pig teammate" Renault Heihanan. There is a gossip that he is "protected" by the American government. Since then, he has remained anonymous. From scratch, in the 1970 s, he died "accidentally" in a car accident on the highway in Pennsylvania.
His wife, Gerity, who still stayed in the Soviet Union, wrote to the Supreme Chairman of the KGB asking for a pension. Because Hannan's defection was kept secret in the Soviet Union, Greti had been kept in the dark, naively thinking that his man had "disappeared" while performing a mission in other places.
After being warned by KGB, Gritti, who was sad, had to comfort his son, saying that his dear father had died at the gunpoint of the Germans in the Great Patriotic War, and his stepfather was missing.
Abel's lawyer, James Donovan, who is full of human feelings and professional ethics, has gradually changed from a lawyer to an official special negotiator.
During the "Bay of Pigs Incident" in the same period, Donovan took his son to Cuba, held secret talks with Fidel Castro, successfully rescued more than 1000 captured American soldiers, and became lifelong friends with Castro.