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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 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).
The United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy (USP Big Sandy) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Martin County, Kentucky, [1] near the city of Inez. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has a satellite prison camp ...
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Randall Dennis, 28, James Benish, 37, and Jeffery Havens, 28, were sentenced to 60, 27 and 15 months in prison, respectively, plus two years of supervised release for their involvement in the ...
The United States Penitentiary, McCreary (USP McCreary) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated McCreary County, Kentucky. [1] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp for ...
This accident happened exactly two months after a U-2 was shot down and as a result increased tensions created by that incident. 6 July Goodyear ZPG-3W , BuNo 144242 , lost hull pressure and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey , eighteen of twenty-one crew were lost.