Today a Russian court sentenced a Russian American to three and a half years in prison.

He was charged with rehabilitating Naziism and showing disrespect for society, and he's part of

a worrying trend. Over the past decade, there have been an historic number of U.S. nationals detained by foreign

governments abroad.

One of the leading negotiators, four detained Americans who usually works in the shadows has now stepped into the

limelight and written a book.

Nick Schifrin has that story.

Nearly 60 Americans are believed to be held overseas. some 90% of them labeled wrongfully detained

by the State Department.

Their possible release is handled by countless American government officials, but sometimes

when hostage families want another advocate or the relevant government might not be communicating particularly well with the US government officially

Mickey Bergman alongside the late Governor Bill Richardson and their team answered the call in North Korea,

Myanmar, Moscow.

Bergman has helped bring Americans home, including Brittany Griner.

And now he's written a book, In the Shadows, True Stories of High Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans

captured abroad, and Mickey Bergman joins me now.

Mickey, thanks very much.

Welcome.

To the news hour.

You call yourself a fringe diplomat how does a fringe

diplomat bring Americans home? Well I think the fringe diplomacy is made of two

separate types of actions or activities. The first is engagement, the second one is

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