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Rudolph Abel’s liberation. Interview with KGB Gen. Yuri Drozdov

20:17 10/02/2012

Soviet sleeper agent Rudolph Abel, sentenced by a U.S. court to 30 years in prison, was exchanged for American spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers on February 10, 1962.

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