Letters From a Soviet Prison
The Personal Journal and Private Correspondence of CIA U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers
My father, Francis Gary Powers, was a CIA U-2 pilot who was shot down in the midst of the Cold War, on May 1, 1960, while flying in Soviet airspace. After his capture, he was tried for espionage and then served nearly two years in a Soviet prison until his eventual release in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States in the late 1950s. The two operatives were brought to separate sides of the Glienicker Bridge in Potsdam, Germany, as depicted in Steven Spielberg's motion picture Bridge of Spies, where the exchange took place. While in prison my father kept a personal journal and was allowe…
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Weitere Autoren: Campbell, Douglas E.
- ISBN: 978-0-359-70742-3
- EAN: 9780359707423
- Produktnummer: 33834078
- Verlag: Lulu.com
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.8 cm 731 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 731
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