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1 hour ago · Not since the Cold War, when secret agents and political prisoners would be routinely exchanged on Berlin 's Bridge of Spies, have so many captives been traded.
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1 day ago · The Russian propaganda machine will depict this exchange as a modern-day counterpart to those dramatic Cold War moments when the West and the Soviet Union traded imprisoned spies. (For context, watch the 2015 film “Bridge of Spies” about the 1962 exchange of downed CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.)
5 hours ago · It’s hardly a rerun of the like-for-like 1968 spy exchange that became the Hollywood Film Bridge of Spies when US pilot Gary Powers was swapped for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel on a fog-cloaked bridge ...
12 hours ago · On February 10, 1962, a dramatic Cold War prisoners swap took place on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, where American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers and Soviet spy Vilyam Fisher, also ...
1 day ago · FX/Russ MartinWith newly minted Emmy nominee Matt Berry's What We Do in the Shadows gearing up for its sixth and final season comes news the Krapopolis voice star will appear in yet another show,
4 hours ago · Stunning new details emerged Friday on the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West belonged to its ...
15 hours ago · For long after the Second World War, Zurich (Switzerland) and Vienna (Austria) functioned as the chief mediators for cross-Atlantic nations. They were called the Bridge of Spies connecting East and West Berlin once served as the prime venues for spy swaps and hostage deals.
