Bridge of Spies | The Dramatic Spy Swap That Defined The Cold War

<p><strong>Ways to support the podcast:</strong></p><p>Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ <a href="https://bmc.link/philipthompson">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bmc.link/philipthompson⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>Donate via PayPal: 💸 <a href="paypal.me/PhilipT284">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/PhilipT284⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>On 10 February 1962, two men stood on opposite ends of a bridge in Potsdam and waited for a signal. One was a Soviet illegal who&#39;d spent nine years posing as a Brooklyn artist. The other was the American U-2 pilot shot down over Sverdlovsk two years earlier. This is the story of Rudolf Abel and Francis Gary Powers, the men who negotiated their exchange, and the third prisoner almost nobody remembers.</p><p>📚 Sources &amp; Further Reading (affiliate links):</p><p>📕 Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell - https://amzn.to/46BVhfB</p><p>📘 KGB Man: The Cold War&#39;s Most Notorious Soviet Agent and the First to be Exchanged at the Bridge of Spies by Cecil Kuhne - https://amzn.to/4ymmkrl</p><p>📕 Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy by Francis Gary Powers Jr. - https://amzn.to/3UxopSI</p><p>📘 Abel: The True Story of the Spy They Traded for Gary Powers by Vin Arthey - https://amzn.to/4cpMb98</p>