The unbelievable story of the CIA kidnapping a Soviet spacecraft

The other night, I was at dinner, and conversation turned to space exploration and to the earliest days of Soviet Russia's Sputnik and Lunik satellite launches. What followed was a story so unbelievable, I had to do some digging to convince myself it wasn't just a folk legend. From Popular Science, a few years back, soon after the story was declassified: Sometime between the end of 1959 and 1960, the Soviet Union toured several countries with an exhibit of its industrial and economic achievement...