Spy swap on the Glienicke Bridge, 1986

The last spy swap to take place on Glienicke Bridge is also the first to happen in public. Interpreted as a sign of thawing relations between East and West, the event on what will now forever be known as the Bridge of Spies plays out in front of the world’s press.
The most famous name on the list this time is Anatoly Shcharansky, a civil rights activist who was held for years in a gulag. He had campaigned for human rights and had applied for an exit visa to Israel while in the USSR. He is allowed to cross over to West Berlin in exchange for six agents from the East.
Video details:
Period: 1986
Resolution: SD
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Original sound: no
Colour: yes
Source: rbb - from "Mauerjahre", 04.08.2011
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[@nlpnt]

It's interesting that the Lada Sharansky is being taken to the bridge in has an East Berlin civilian registration.

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I think this is the time Marian Zacharski has been exchanged as well. The best secret service worker in Polish People's Republic, read about him.