On February 10, 1962, “Rudolf Abel,” Francis Gary Powers, and James B. Donovan took the world stage at the Glienicke Bridge between Potsdam in East Germany and West Berlin. All were key players in a critical moment of Cold War History: the trade of Soviet spy “Abel” for US pilot Powers as depicted in Steven Spielberg’s 2015 Bridge of Spies movie.

KGB officer “Abel” had been serving a 30 year sentence in the US for atomic espionage; Powers had been shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the USSR for the CIA and was serving a 10 year sentence in a Soviet prison; lawyer Donovan negotiated the spy swap.

This evening, join Vin Arthey, author of Abel: The True Story of the Spy They Traded for Gary Powers; Powers’ son Gary Powers, Jr., author of Letters from a Soviet Prison; Mary Ellen Fuller and Beth Amorosi, daughter and granddaughter of James B. Donovan, who told the story in Strangers on a Bridge, for an in-depth look at the most famous spy trade in history.

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