Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel Francis Gary Powers
On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers
was released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel
Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United
States five years earlier.
The Glienicke bridge (known as the Bridge of Spies) just
after the Powers swap.
Francis Gary Powers
(August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)
Powers later worked as a helicopter pilot
for KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a
1977 helicopter crash.