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The exchange of Brittany Griner for Viktor Bout probably makes Americans traveling overseas much less safe from arrest and imprisonment on bogus charges.

The exchange of US basketball star Brittney Griner for Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout reminded many Germans of events during the Cold War. The Glienicke Bridge near Berlin was a top spot for prisoner swaps.

U-2 Incident, (1960), confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France. On May 5, 1960, the Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. that an American spy plane had been shot down on May 1 over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg),...

From James Bond to Jason Bourne, these are the finest depictions of espionage ever committed to celluloid, all of which will leave you shaken and stirred

The Tigers sweep the Patriots, one of the few teams to take a set from Gardiner this season.

The Tigers sweep the Patriots, one of the few teams to take a set from Gardiner this season.

Happy Wednesday, TSF. You made it to another Hump Day [insert GEICO camel commercial here]. Today’s Sporcle is inspired by Arsenal’s trip north of the Arctic Circle to the tiny town of Bodø. It’ll...

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In Germany, there was even a special ‘Bridge of Spies’ for such exchanges. Abel for PowersThe most famous exchange of captured int

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