Name: Seyede Yasamin
Surname: Hashemi
Student number: 138489
Course code: PSIR421
Movie: Bridge of spies
The movie bridge of spies which is based on a true story is in the period of cold war, and about espionage. Using spies and spying on the opposite country became part of the Cold War game. Both sides used spies to aid finding out of what the other was doing faster and easier. It was an extremely dangerous job and many of the spies knew the high risk of betrayal or making an error is execution, if they were lucky they would be exchanged for other spies. For example, The Soviet Union employed men from Britain to spy on Britain men who had become dissatisfied by the British way of life and they looked to the east side. The most famous British …show more content…
This helped Abel’s case, for the procedure of spy exchange. The American plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down. Powers was held captive by the Soviets, until 10th of February, 1962. The exchange happened, which was arranged by James B. Donovan on the Glienicke Bridge. The Soviet Union had originally sentenced Powers to ten years. CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers was on a mission to secretly photograph Russian military locations. His U-2 spy plane could reach heights of 70,000 feet, which they thought it would be too high for Soviet surface-to-air missiles or fighter planes. However, the united States were unaware that the Russians had been improving their range of their missiles to fight the meddling of spy planes in their airspace. One of the missiles exploded close to Powers ' plane which broke it apart and send it travelling toward the …show more content…
He says in the letter that he is going to request an exchange from the USA government. Abel 's wife Elena wrote James Donovan to see if he could get her husband mercy (like in the film, Donovan was aware that some of the letters from Abel 's wife were likely being written by the Soviet government and he read them front of Abel). Donovan then contacted the Department of Justice. Donovan helped this by convincing the judge to not execute Abel because he might someday be needed for an exchange. As he says in the movie, “I think it could be considered in the best interests of the United States that Abel remains alive.” “It is possible that, in the foreseeable future, an American of equivalent rank might be captured by Soviet Russia. We might want to have someone to
Surname: Hashemi
Student number: 138489
Course code: PSIR421
Movie: Bridge of spies
The movie bridge of spies which is based on a true story is in the period of cold war, and about espionage. Using spies and spying on the opposite country became part of the Cold War game. Both sides used spies to aid finding out of what the other was doing faster and easier. It was an extremely dangerous job and many of the spies knew the high risk of betrayal or making an error is execution, if they were lucky they would be exchanged for other spies. For example, The Soviet Union employed men from Britain to spy on Britain men who had become dissatisfied by the British way of life and they looked to the east side. The most famous British …show more content…
This helped Abel’s case, for the procedure of spy exchange. The American plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down. Powers was held captive by the Soviets, until 10th of February, 1962. The exchange happened, which was arranged by James B. Donovan on the Glienicke Bridge. The Soviet Union had originally sentenced Powers to ten years. CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers was on a mission to secretly photograph Russian military locations. His U-2 spy plane could reach heights of 70,000 feet, which they thought it would be too high for Soviet surface-to-air missiles or fighter planes. However, the united States were unaware that the Russians had been improving their range of their missiles to fight the meddling of spy planes in their airspace. One of the missiles exploded close to Powers ' plane which broke it apart and send it travelling toward the …show more content…
He says in the letter that he is going to request an exchange from the USA government. Abel 's wife Elena wrote James Donovan to see if he could get her husband mercy (like in the film, Donovan was aware that some of the letters from Abel 's wife were likely being written by the Soviet government and he read them front of Abel). Donovan then contacted the Department of Justice. Donovan helped this by convincing the judge to not execute Abel because he might someday be needed for an exchange. As he says in the movie, “I think it could be considered in the best interests of the United States that Abel remains alive.” “It is possible that, in the foreseeable future, an American of equivalent rank might be captured by Soviet Russia. We might want to have someone to