1986 "Spy Exchange" on the Glienicke Bridge
30 years ago, on February 11, 1986, on the Glienicke bridge on the border of West Berlin and the GDR, an exchange was made of Czechoslovak spies Karel Koecher and Hanu Koecher arrested in the United States, as well as Soviet resident Yevgeny Zemlyakov, Polish spy Jerzy Kaczmarek and East German spy Detlef Scharfenort, who were arrested in the FRG, against a well-known Soviet dissident, an activist in the movement for human rights in the USSR, including for the right to free emigration, Anatoly