The exchange of alleged Estonian and Russian spies on a abandoned bridge has all the hallmarks of vintage espionage fiction – and the way things are going it could come to be a regular eventThe abandoned bridge,the unmarked cars driving up at the appointed hour on each side, and the men in dark jackets assembly in the centre and swapping handlers. The spy swap is a classic cold-war trope; often happening on the Glienicke Bridge which separated east and west Berlin.
All long in the past in nowadays’s Europe without borders, and you might think,but footage from the release of Estonian agent Eston Kohver over the weekend bore an uncanny resemblance to the cold-war swaps. Grainy footage with faces blurred out showed the denouement: four men in dark jackets assembly in the centre of an empty bridge linking Russia’s Pskov region with Estonia on a foggy morning, one of each pair swapping to the other side.
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Source: theguardian.com