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My father, Francis Gary Powers, was a CIA U-2 pilot who was shot
down in the midst of the Cold War, on May 1, 1960, while flying in
Soviet airspace. After his capture, he was tried for espionage and
then served nearly two years in a Soviet prison until his eventual
release in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB
spy who was caught in the United States in the late 1950s. The two
operatives were brought to separate sides of the Glienicker Bridge
in Potsdam, Germany, as depicted in Steven Spielberg's motion
picture Bridge of Spies, where the exchange took place. While in
prison my father kept a personal journal and was allowed to write
and receive personal correspondence. In this book are the
never-before published journal of my father's thoughts as a
Prisoner of War, along with more than 150 personal letters written
and received by my father during his captivity.
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