Days That Shook the World

Season 2, Episode 9

Episode Title: Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel

Air Date: 2004-07-01

Overview:

1 May 1960 and 18 February 1962 These two stories from the height of the Cold War illustrate the mistrust and suspicion of an era. A spy plane shot down from the skies over Russia and the eventual dramatic exchange of the pilot for a Russian spy across a bridge in Berlin.