On 10 February 1962, the American pilot Francis Gary Powers and the Soviet agent Rudolf Abel passed each other on the white line in the middle of the Glienicke Bridge, the first of three spy exchanges there. I tell the story from the tunnel that the Americans and British dug from Rudow to tap Soviet military telephone lines, and why the KGB already knew about it. The tunnel was found in April 1956, and the bridge saw two more exchanges in 1985 and 1986. Take bus 316 from S Wannsee to Glienicker Brücke and stand by the metal band on the footpath that marks the old border.

Chapters:
0:00 Digging the tunnel
6:44 George Blake and the discovery
10:55 Where to see the tunnel
14:09 The bridge and the 1962 swap
16:57 Later swaps and today

Sources:
https://www.deutsches-spionagemuseum.de/2017/02/10/die-agentenbruecke
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/online-entdecken/themenbeitraege/kabelkrimi-im-kalten-krieg/
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/exhibit/the-berlin-tunnel
https://www.alliiertenmuseum.de/en/ausstellung/special-exhibition-the-berlin-espionage-tunnel/
https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hintergrund-aktuell/220518/1986-letzter-agentenaustausch-auf-der-glienicker-bruecke/
https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/welterbe/schloesser-und-gaerten-von-potsdam-und-berlin/glienicker-bruecke-654422.php
https://www.berlin.de/ba-treptow-koepenick/ueber-den-bezirk/ortsteile/altglienicke/artikel.449252.php
https://www.bvg.de/de/verbindungen/linienuebersicht/316

Narrated with an AI voice. The short breaks are read in Yusuf's own cloned voice. More at walkofberlin.com