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The Spy Trade That Brought U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers Home

The Spy Trade That Brought U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers Home

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Francis Gary Powers’ downed U-2 aerial surveillance plane, on display in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow. [Mikko Tapio Vartianen]

Three Personal Letters Change History.

It started with a father’s letter to imprisoned Soviet KGB spy, Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel. Convicted in 1957 for espionage, Abel was serving a thirty year prison te…

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