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Abel: The True Story of the Spy They Traded for Gary Powers (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

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On 10 February 1962, Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was once shot down in Soviet airspace, was once brought to Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge, where he was once to participate in probably the most famous prisoner exchange in history.

The man Powers was once traded for was once one Colonel Rudolf Abel, a cover name for KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher, one of the ordinary characters within the history of the Cold War.

Abel/Fisher was once born plain Willie Fisher in Newcastle upon Tyne, son to revolutionary parents who fled Tsarist oppression in Russia. Arriving within the newly formed Soviet Union in 1921, Fisher was once trained as a spy and in the end sent to New York, where, posing as an artist, he ran the network that purloined The united states’s atomic secrets.

In 1957, his luck ran out and he was once arrested and sentenced to thirty years in prison. Six years later, the us’s regard for Fisher was once evidenced when they insisted on swapping him for the stricken Powers. The trade was once negotiated by New York lawyer James Donovan, and Abel and Powers’s story is dramatized within the Steven Spielberg film Bridge of Spies.

Tracing that story from probably the most unlikely of beginnings in Newcastle, to Moscow and beyond to the streets of New York, Abel is a singular and absorbing true story of Cold War espionage to rival anything in fiction.

Vin Arthey is a creator and researcher.

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