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A detail of a bronze cast of the Moscow Kremlin, given to President Ronald Reagan by Mikhail Gorbachev following Reagan's visit to the Soviet Union in 1988, is seen at the National Archives, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, during a press preview of rarely displayed original documents and artifacts in recognition of the Ronald Reagan Centennial. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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The Soviet SS-20 was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead and was one of the classes of missiles subject to the INF Treaty. The Soviet Union began to demolish its nuclear stockpile at Kapustin Yar, a missile test site, in July 1988. This plaque showcases a fragment of the last Soviet SS-20 missile, which was destroyed on May 12, 1991. Photo: National Archives, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum

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Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Russia and the former Soviet Union in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history, died in prison on Monday.