Today’s expedited spy swap in Vienna brought to mind an even more dramatic trade: the 1962 exchange that brought downed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers back home, and sent “Rudolf Abel” back to Moscow to live out his days as a KGB trainer. Yet there was a third person involved in that sensational Berlin swap: […]
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The Throw-In
July 9th, 2010 · Comments Off on The Throw-In
Tags:Cold War·East Germany·espionage·Francis Gary Powers·Frederic L. Pryor·intelligence·Soviet Union