To mark the release of Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, a film about about the exchange of two captured spies - Gary Powers and Rudolf Abel - between the Soviet Union and America during the Cold War, here are the top locations associated with espionage around the world.
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Glienicke Bridge, Berlin
Glienicke Bridge on the far western outskirts of Berlin still has a faint white line crossing its middle that signified the boundary between east and west Berlin during the Cold War. It was across this line that, in February 1962, the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel and the American spy-plane pilot Francis Gary Powers were exchanged, an act now the focus of Spielberg’s film, Bridge of Spies. The bridge was used for the exchange of a number captured spies throughout the phoney conflict. “It may not be the prettiest or the boldest, but in its current form – the steel incarnation erected at the beginning of the 20th century to cope with the ever growing traffic between Berlin and Potsdam – it has a simple elegance; a pleasing symmetry; a Teutonic solidity,” wrote Telegraph Travel’s Adrian Bridge on a recent visit.
Picture: AP/FOTOLIA
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