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The secret mission was to gather intelligence and was co-sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Air Force. The pilot was Francis Gary Powers. A proven pilot, Powers participated ...
Oct 15, 2015 · Based on extensive research, the pilot’s son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., now believes that Kruminsh was probably “a plant,” assigned by the KGB to keep an eye on his fellow prisoner.
Feb 9, 2010 · On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States five years ...
Spy Pilot. , a son’s 50-year quest for truth concerning his father, who happened to be famed—or defamed—U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, felled by the explosion of a Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missile close to his reconnais- sance aircraft on 1 May 1960, launching an international incident.
Universal Newsreel about the 1960 U-2 incident Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the plane. On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.
May 1, 2015 · Francis Gary Powers strapped into a U-2 and took off from a secret base in Pakistan on May 1, 1960. The son of a Virginia coal miner, Powers was plucked from the U.S. Air Force in 1956 and ...
Powers received his wings and commission in December 1952 and flew F-84's until he was recruited in May 1956 to become a civilian U-2 pilot for the CIA. He began high-altitude surveillance and over flights of the USSR in 1956, which provided vital intelligence photographs of Russian military activity to the Eisenhower administration.
