in may two thousand and ten francis gary powers the son of the american pilots visited russia for the first time he saw with his voice the sophist system to shut down his father's plane fifty years earlier. it's a unique perspective to be here to see the type of missile that that shot my father down there is no animosity there's no bad feelings i look at it as a historic perspective one that we can learn from in maine and hundred sixty nikita khrushchev was shown what was left of the senior powers spy plane an international scandal. present as in how or when to deceive me but i believe people don't have lunch where they didn't think a terrorist is an elementary thing you know the president of the united states has played a trick on the soviet union but now he wants to dine with russia so how can i be expected to receive him. the cold war took a new turn. orders the soviet union resumed testing its nuclear weapons the world's most powerful hydrogen bomb was developed in one thousand nine hundred sixty one it was cool. by the scientists it was twenty times as powerful as all the explosi

in may two thousand and ten francis gary powers the son of the american pilot for the. system the. plane fifty. unique perspective to be here to see the type of missile that shot my father down there's no animosity there's no bad feelings i look at it as a historic perspective one that we can learn from. what was left of the. president as you know our wanted to see but i believe people don't have lunch where they. think . that it stays has played a trick on this. now she wants to dine with her how can i be expected to receive. the cold war. the soviet union. was developed in one thousand nine hundred sixty. ghouls could skin a mat by the scientists it was twenty times as powerful as all the explosives used in world war two put together it was decided to test the bomb in october in one nine hundred sixty one but only a tough capacity. we have said we have a one hundred million ton bomb it's true we're not going to set it all the reason is that if we set it off we might also have our windows shattered therefore it's not worth while. was. because who show was so sure the soviet union

and he was exchanged in 1962 francis gary powers. another famous one is gordon longsdale, whose real name was conan -- sorry, how did we get all the way to last? computers, you can never trust them. sneaky things. gordon longsdale. wasn't really gordon longsdale. this was the name of a canadian child taken to finland where he died apparently during world war ii and the soviets just appropriated his name. you find that canada shows up in this story a lot. he was sent to california at the age of 11 as a potential spy to sort of familiarize himself with the united states. came back to the soviet at age 16 where he was commissioned into the k.g.b., trained, and back into the united states. later he served in the u.k. where he went into business renting jukeboxes and manufacturing bubble gum machines but also running agents who were spying on the royal navy. a polish defector gave information that started the investigation that led to him. and he and his ring who also included the krogers, who had gone to the u.k. by this time, were convi