Bridge of Spies

293 Pages·2011·2.15 MB·English

by  Giles Whittell [Whittell

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First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
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Copyright © 2010 by Giles Whittell
This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.
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accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
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For Bruno, Louis, and Enzo
Dramatis Personae
Author’s Note
Prologue
part one MISSIONS IMPLAUSIBLE
1 / The Waterspout
2 / The Agent
3 / The Pilot
4 / The Innocent
part two SPY CATCHERS
5 / Stakeout
6 / American Justice
7 / Falling from a Long Way Up
part three CAUGHT IN THE ACT
8 / City of Cowboys and Indians
9 / A First-Class Panic
10 / Soviet Justice
11 / The Man in the Scarlet Sports Car
part four ANATOMY OF A DEAL
12 / Poker for Table Stakes
13 / Three Men and a Bridge
Epilogue
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
THE PRINCIPALS
William Fisher, aka Rudolf Abel, Emil Goldfus, Martin Collins, Robert Callan,
Frank, Milton, and Agent Mark: KGB colonel and the most senior undercover
Soviet agent in North America from 1948 to 1957
Francis Gary Powers: U-2 pilot trained by the U.S. Air Force and employed by
the CIA to fly reconnaissance missions over Soviet Russia; shot down May 1,
1960
Frederic Pryor: PhD student at the Free University of West Berlin who was
arrested by East German secret police on suspicion of spying but released to his
parents as part of the Glienicke Bridge exchange on February 10, 1962
KGB
Reino Hayhanen, aka Eugene Maki and Agent Vik: Fisher’s KGB subordinate in
New York from 1952 to 1957 and the man who would betray him to the United
States
Pavel Sudoplatov: KGB general who masterminded the assassination of Leon
Trotsky in 1940 and adopted Fisher as his protégé later in World War II.
Yuri Drozdov: KGB officer assigned to correspond with James Donovan from
East Germany in hopes of arranging an exchange of Powers for Abel
Alexander “the Swede” Orlov: prewar Soviet “illegal” agent who defected to the
United States, where he was the only person who knew Fisher’s true identity
Ivan Shishkin: senior KGB officer who posed as second secretary at the Soviet
embassy in East Berlin to represent Moscow in negotiations for the Powers-Abel