U.S. Spy Plane Shot Down, Pilot Captured, Swapped With ‘Most Famous’ Soviet Spy – Who Was Rudolf Abel?

About 64 years ago, Cold War rivals—the United States and the Soviet Union—arrived at a settlement and exchanged their spies, Francis Gary Powers and Rudolf Abel, at the infamous Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, Germany, which came to be known as the “Bridge of Spies.” At the height of the Cold War, the US Central Intelligence […] The post U.S. Spy Plane Shot Down, Pilot Captured, Swapped With ‘Most Famous’ Soviet Spy – Who Was Rudolf Abel? appeared first on EURASIAN TIMES.