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Inside the months-long effort to free Trevor Reed from detention in Russia
CNN
It was "like you see in the movies," Trevor Reed's father said.
An American plane pulled alongside a Russian one on a tarmac in Turkey, two prisoners disembarked and were escorted simultaneously across to the opposite aircraft, where American Reed was greeted by Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens and Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko met a representative of his government.
After more than two years in Russian detention, Reed was heading back to the United States. He had arrived as of early Thursday, according to a tweet from his mother Paula Reed.
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