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Just woke up not sure if mentioned already but...
>>480458 bridge, water, Snow(den)
"Powers was put on trial, convicted of espionage, and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. In February 1962, the Soviet Union announced that it was freeing Powers because of a petition from the prisoner’s family. American officials made it quite clear, however, that Abel was being exchanged for Powers—a spy-for-a-spy trade, not a humanitarian gesture on the part of the Soviet Union. The U.S. government announced that in exchange for Powers, it would release Col. Rudolf Abel, a Russian convicted of espionage in the United States. On February 10, Abel and Powers were brought to the Gilenicker Bridge that linked East and West Berlin for the exchange. After the men were successfully exchanged, Powers was flown back to the United States."
https:// www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-exchange-american-for-captured-russian-spy
A Look Back … The Cold War: Strangers On a Bridge — Central ... - CIA
https:// www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story.../strangers-on-a-bridge.html
Feb 20, 2009 - The exchange of Powers and Abel was the first of many East-West prisoner exchanges to take place over the next 27 years. It also marked a change in Cold War intelligence. The Soviets had long excelled at espionage, but lost Abel to one of America's early counterintelligence coups in 1957.
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