sentences:  4, 2006 included an article describing the mission, the capture, and, ultimately, the release of agents Downey and Fecteau.A related video documentary was placed on the CIA website.Thanks to efforts by Downey's mother, Mary Downey, and President Richard Nixon, Downey was released 21 years into his life sentence, on March 12, 1973, the year after Nixon's visit to China.