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Week 38 – Bridge of Spies

October 30, 2013 by 53weeks

The Glienicker Brücke divided West Berlin (US zone) and the GDR (Soviet zone), it was one of the few places along the Iron Curtain where the two super powers shared a border, hence it was here that they chose to exchange their spies. The most famous exchange took place on the 10th of February 1962, where Gary Powers the U2 pilot shot down over Soviet territory was exchanged for Vilyam “Willie” Genrikhovich Fisher who leaked US atomic secrets. Today, 24 […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: CIA, Cold War, Crisis, Iron Curtain, KGB, MI5, Politics, Spy, Stasi

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