Days That Shook the World Cold War Spies

Cold War Spies

Reconstruction of events surrounding the day the Americans traded a Soviet master spy apprehended in New York for the release of Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot shot down over Russia two years earlier and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment after attempting to photograph military installations. Negotiations between the superpowers did not go as smoothly as planned, with the swap repeatedly put in jeopardy until the actual exchange, which took place on a bridge in Berlin