Arraigned on Spy Charges--Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55, said to be the highest ranking soviet agent ever arrested in the United States, waits for papers to be prepared today in U.S. Commissioner J.C. Hall's office here. At left is FBI Agent Clay Zachary of Brownsville. Abel signed a waiver removal and was expected to be returned to New York tomorrow.

Associated Press · [ca. August 1957]

[Information from item housing] Abel, Rudolph Ivanovich Russian Spy