THE SPY TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400100063-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: April 26, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

LONDON SUNAA.Y TfS
_26 April 1964
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a?u Dr-taut each swear the`; P Pryor had been'-do g " ou'I1 live here alone," I ob
other side made first move h.D. research on trade behi td. sa d. "Every morning a s tfe..
tovrards the ynne Lonsdale the Iron Curtain, and had G rman maid will come, r fix
y ur breakfast and make the
exchange. A thick official fog apparently dug rather too dee
p
. shrouds the actual negot.ia- Tile public prosecutor ? was bed upstairs. , You'll find
bens which led to the swdemanding death-in the hope, everything . . . American cigar-
ail, apparently, that U.S. public ettes, _ twelve -year Scotch,
on the Neer Strasse. But, co- opinion would demand diplo- current magazines.'
incidentally, James B. Dono- matic recognition of ' East After dinner, Bob" drove
'nn has just told in America I Germany, so that moves might Donovan to the Berlin Hilton
he first full account of his he made to save Pryor's life, and showed him the dim-lit
erve-racking week's bargain- Donovan was also told that Golden City Bar. After each
le
in East Berlin which Marvin Makinen, a University foray into East Berlin, Donovan
eeu hangered the Abel-Powers ex. of Pennsylvania student, had was to call him from the Golden
, He sharply illuminates been given eight years in City at an unlisted number,
he conspiratorial Donovan go to Ea Germ ny 'Russia for photographing which he was to memorise.
techniques to fix it? st military establishments. The number would be manned,.
hich govern such deals, and Immediately was an East German night and day, while the opera
he thickly theatrical atmos- mediately Donovan ca led lawyer, the contact went on, I rtlon ran. Clearly, a?]lttle bit
here in whichthe are Cott. from Washington to Frau II ten called Vogel, who claimed to I 1
here in wh . they Abel in Leipzig, East Germany.
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e said, and had just sent ........ a mess-.. -- - e the n
is story and the Wynne concluded: " My proposal is This man
mtsdal swap. In both cases, that I meet you at roe sal s sage to the U.S. Mission in f Len Dighton-but thd
le Russians achieved the that y in East Berlin on West Berlin: Mrs Abel was sure d y the mood chanted, h W me objective: the retrieved Saturday, February 3 at 12 that Pryor and Makinen would C me a
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lost master-spy by adroit ublicit be given this meetin U.S. returned Abel. Your basic n Saturday, February 3,
amputation of pawns. Al p Y g g mission, Donovan was told, is day Donovan woke l a sleet-back
tidy. there is some evidence Accordingly, if the fore-
going meeting is satisfactory, to swap Abel pfloa Powers-as w h'i felt my back
at the actual tempo of the please cable my law office only for the rest y it ,b car. Which felt like pleurisy." At
gotiations was similar-the the message Happy New Year." ? I resolved," says Do oven, 11.15 he entered the Zoo
tssians using their " hot- Donovan was obviously` to try for all." The contact. station in West Berlin, bought a d-cold " technique again.. right in the spirit of secret said Donovan would not have luck") round-trip ticket (" for good
service work. any American diplomat with and took the twenty-
He now asked for a letter to him on visits to East Berlin. minute ride lo.Fricdrichstrasse
NOVAN'S STORY, re- It would be too embarassing if ? , in East etion. Ile was to " use
rated from his diaries and guarantee the U.S. Govern- anything went wrong. 'Your his discretion ' in getting past
orts, tells how he played a ment's intentions to the the guards-at that time vi let
larkablc two-handed game Russians, and late in the situation is very di(Icrent, There
tors were sometimes let
' could be no embarassment
th the Russians and East afternoon received this, on De- since you will have no official 'through, sometimes not.
rmans. ostensibly independ- partment of Justice paper: status." Donovan
but in fact collaborating in Dear Mr Donovan, got past (lie first
attempt to confuse him. In With respect to, the recent U o n ova n asked if he guard, but when I rounded
end he freed two other conference with you regarding should carry a weapon, or any a corner tnd oabo a r00d cop
ericans, one from Last Ger- executive clemency for your recording gear. lie was told herded r I found about 100 people
client, this is to assure not to, but if this detracted hein lines and waiting for
y, one from Russia, as well that upon the fulfilment of at all from tile,. Fleming-like passport only one clearance. After ten
he U.2 pilot. circumstances as outlined, flit, element of his story, his arrival ohs hs only ooc sse per.
onovan, it Catholic, is a reason set forth in the letter to in London by Pan Am on sons had been processed for
I-known American lawyer Your client's wife as to why Tuesday. January 30, made tip entry and the delay seemed to
was a Nuremberg prose- executive clemency should not
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r and was in the O.S.S. be, considered, will no longer I into Clar?idges and was ;soon place in the line and marched
defended Abel at his trial ti
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while serving sentence was Pardon Attorney. itlerted him to leave for `Berlin ,in German that I had an
ed censored correspond- It was too cautious , said next Friday, and told him his appointment ?at noon at the
with his family in East D
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its In M the head of ' the queue. I s
in fact, a group of Soviet they were going to avoid actual answered routine questions . , e
I gave him a morning bracer of
. May. 1960, Powers contact with e
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At the massive Embassy in d
ed his U.2 near Sverd- as they could. Donovan was CI'rridges' brandy." Unter den Linden Donovan was
Friday was February 2, and e
and the Russians gave told it was all he would get. Donovan checked out ?f, told to, try next door, the Con- d
a 10-year sentence. irnmr- n u .. _._. ,
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ry, January 25, was Connaught Square " we picked suitlrn yo door to disclose. a It
tinge in America-but, is brief: " This morning at up it young lady representing o 'ou do? yo? " woman, " FI w e
he Wynne case, neither' 10 o'clock I received at my law British Security 4l you she said. I rm >f
rnment coveted the
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tile daughtf R
romern a.. air base wheretheer oudolf Al.
our of the initiative It which read HAPPY NEW British girl left them, it was This Is my mother, Frau /~b~l,
a year later, according to YEAR and was signed HELEN: snowing heavily when the and her cousin Herr Drtws."
van, that Abel', "wife " On the Saturday, January 27, U.S.A.F. plane skidded into
to his office suggesting his entry began in a Buchan- , Tempelhof to be met by " an
change. It took the U.S. ' esquc vein: " I took a cab to American named Bob, who had
rnment another seven the Harvard Club to meet a a small automobile parked
is to decide. On Washington contact for my final nearby." Nobody objected
'day, January 11.. 1962, briefing. when they drove away 'without
van. then 45, was sum- The cont
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on the highest I~irst, I'hc rase Germans were an air of quiet assurance,"
that the deal was in the now holding Frederic L. Pryor, , drove Donovan to a darkened.
al interest. Would a' Yale student