TheCodeBreakers
booklet and the size of a postage stamp— 1% X % X % inches. F.B.I,
agents found it when they arrested him in his room in New York's Hotel
Latham on June 21, 1957. Abel had wrapped it in paper and concealed it
inside a hollowed-out block of wood covered with sandpaper like a
sanding block (Abel posed as an artist) that he had tossed casually into
the wastebasket. A Greek Communist, Gregory Liolios, had a one-time
pad when he was arrested in 1954, as did another, Eleftherious Voutsas,
picked up in 1958. In suburban London, early in 1961, half a dozen one-
time pads in the scroll form were found hidden in the base of a Ronson
cigarette lighter in the cottage of Helen and Peter Kroger, two Soviet spies
who were actually two Americans named Lona and Morris Cohen. More
pads were found in another lighter in the London flat of their chief, the
Soviet Resident (agent in charge) for England, known only by his alias,
Gordon Arnold Lonsdale