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As a historic prisoner exchange unfolds, a look back at other famous East-West swaps

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FILE - A cyclist passes over the Glienicke Bridge between Potsdam and Berlin, Germany, on May 6, 2009. They sometimes see those who are part of the swap as they pass each other on an airport tarmac or, as in the Cold War, the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin to Potsdam. In decades of prisoner exchanges, those released have included spies, journalists, drug and arms dealers, and even a well-known athlete. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, File)
FILE - WNBA star Brittney Griner is escorted from court after a hearing in Khimki, just outside Moscow, Aug. 4, 2022. Griner was arrested in February 2022 at a Moscow airport when vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. Later that year, she was convicted of drug charges, sentenced to nine years in prison, and then exchanged for arms trader Viktor Bout imprisoned in the U.S. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
FILE - Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who was sentenced to 25 years in the United States, speaks to the media prior to an opening ceremony of the exhibition of his artworks at the Mosfilm studio in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Bout was arrested in 2008 in a U.S. sting operation in Thailand for offering to sell surface-to-air missiles to men masquerading as Colombian rebels. He was extradited to the United States, convicted and sentenced to 25 years. In December 2022, the U.S. released Bout in a prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner jailed in Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
FILE - Marine veteran Trevor Reed stands behind bars in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, July 20, 2020. Reed, an ex-Marine, was arrested in 2019 in Moscow for assaulting a police officer while allegedly drunk. Reed denied the allegations, but was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison. In 2022, he was released in an exchange involving pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko imprisoned in the U.S. (Andrei Nikerichev/Moscow News Agency via AP, File)
FILE - Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was sentenced to 20-years in prison for cocaine trafficking and exchanged for U.S. Marine veteran Trevor Reed, speaks at the International RUSSIA EXPO Forum and Exhibition in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024.Yaroshenko, a pilot, was arrested in 2010 in Liberia for involvement in a cocaine distribution scheme. He was extradited to the U.S. and sentenced to 20 years. In 2022, he was exchanged for ex-Marine Trevor Reed, who was jailed in Russia. (Pavel Bednyakov/Host photo agency Sputnik via AP, File)
FILE - Anna Chapman, who was deported from the U.S. on charges of espionage, displays a creation by Russian designers Shiyan & Rudkovskaya during a Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia on Sunday, April 3, 2011. In June 2010, U.S. officials rounded up 10 Russians, including Chapman, alleged to be "sleeper agents" living under false identities without specific espionage missions to be activated as needed. They were exchanged for four people imprisoned in Russia. (AP Photo /Luba Sheme, File)
FILE - Russian Col. Rudolf Abel, 55, right, steps from a patrol wagon in front of Brooklyn Federal Court in New York, Aug. 13, 1957, for an appearance on spy charges. He is accompanied by an unidentified U.S. Marshal. Abel, alleged head of military-atomic-secret espionage ring while posing as a Brooklyn artist won another postponement until Aug. 16 to obtain counsel. In probably the most dramatic swap of the Cold War era, Rudolf Abel and Francis Gary Powers were exchanged on Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting the U.S.-occupied zone of Berlin with East Germany. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano, File)
FILE - Francis Gary Powers (right), pilot of the U-2, sits in the dock of the Court in the hall of Columns in Moscow, August 17, 1960, at the opening of his Trials of Espionage. At left is his defence counsel, Mikhail Griniev. In probably the most dramatic swap of the Cold War era, Rudolf Abel and Francis Gary Powers were exchanged on Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting the U.S.-occupied zone of Berlin with East Germany.(AP-Photo, File)

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FILE - A cyclist passes over the Glienicke Bridge between Potsdam and Berlin, Germany, on May 6, 2009. They sometimes see those who are part of the swap as they pass each other on an airport tarmac or, as in the Cold War, the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin to Potsdam. In decades of prisoner exchanges, those released have included spies, journalists, drug and arms dealers, and even a well-known athlete. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, File)