Benwell
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Benwell is an area in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Until 1974 it was in Northumberland.
Benwell Parish Church geograph.org.uk 1440694
Charlotte Pit, Benwell, c. 1935
Rudolf Abel
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William August Fisher, better known by the alias Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when he was arrested in the USA on char
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…acres for its building and was principal in having the church built. The crypt is constructed in a seam of coal, the very ore he dedicated his life to. William August Fisher was born in Benwell to Russian parents in 1903, and lived at 142 Clara Street. Using the name Rudolf Abel he was arrested in New York in 1957 as a…
Abel on a 1990 USSR commemorative stamp
Vladimir Semichastny, chairman of the KGB, talking to Soviet intelligence officers Rudolf Abel (second from left) and Konon Molody (second from right) in September 1964