Our principles are engraved in the history and the law of this land. If the free world is not faithful to its own moral code, there remains no society for which others may hunger.
James B. Donovan, to the Milwaukee Journal, in 1962.
Brooklyn insurance lawyer James Donovan, Soviet spy Rudolf Abel's attorney, while working at the Nuremberg trials, on the personal staff of Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal. Donovan retired as a US Navy commander.
Named after the Glienicke Palace, the Glienicke Bridge Glienicker Brücke, across the Havel River in Germany, connects Berlin's Wannsee district with Brandenburg's capital Potsdam.
During the Cold War, the Glienicke Bridge was a restricted border crossing between Potsdam in East Germany & West Berlin. USA & USSR used the Glienicke Bridge to trade captured spies.
Bridge of Spies Director: Steven Spielberg. Writers: Mark Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court & then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. IMDB
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