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The U-2 airplane incident Archived 25 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine, according to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian; 1962 Russia frees US spy plane pilot; The U-2 Spy Plane Incident – slideshow by Life magazine; Eisenhower's speech addressing the U-2 incident "The CIA and the U-2 Program" (1998).
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union shot down and captured a U-2 in 1960 during Dulles's term as CIA chief. [3] Dulles is considered one of the essential creators of the modern United States intelligence system and was an indispensable guide to clandestine operations during the Cold War.
The 1960 presidential election changed everything. It was the first to feature televised debates between the two major-party candidates. It was the first in which both candidates were born in the ...
The South Korean government claims that Syngman Rhee wins 100% of the vote in the March 1960 South Korean presidential election, leading to widespread protests against election fraud. The protests spiral into the April Revolution , leading to the collapse of the First Republic and the resignation and exile of Rhee.
[147] [148] The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a lengthy inquiry into the U-2 incident. [149] During the Paris Summit, Eisenhower accused Khrushchev "of sabotaging this meeting, on which so much of the hopes of the world have rested." [150] Later, Eisenhower stated the summit had been ruined because of that "stupid U-2 business." [149]
De Gaulle hosted a superpower summit on 17 May 1960 for arms limitation talks and détente efforts in the wake of the 1960 U-2 incident between United States President Dwight Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. [31]
The U-2 Incident began when an American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, entered Soviet airspace ten minutes after takeoff from a U.S. base in Pakistan, at Peshawar. At 9:53 a.m. (0653 GMT), his plane was struck by shrapnel from an exploding Soviet SA-2 missile while he was at 70,500 feet (21,488 m). [ 2 ]