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...
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L. Fletcher Prouty (section 1960 U-2 incident)
of the 1960 U-2 incident. He charged that the flight was sabotaged in such a way by anticommunist elements in our government as to cause the U-2 to lose...
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Ayub Khan (section U.S. alliance and 1960 U-2 incident)
knowledge, during his presidency. When these activities were exposed in 1960 after a U-2 flying out of the air station was shot down and its pilot captured...
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Francis Gary Powers (category Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
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...
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when it was withdrawn from Asia after the May 1960 U-2 incident. On 24 September 1959, an unmarked U-2, Article 360, crash landed to Fujisawa Airfield...
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S-75 Dvina (redirect from SA-2)
was deployed in the 1960 U-2 incident, when it shot down the U-2 of Francis Gary Powers overflying the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The system was also...
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CIA activities in the Soviet Union (section 1960 U-2 incident (clandestine intelligence collection))
Eastern Mediterranean, Document 3. "Special Statements Regarding the U - 2 Incident and the Recent Military Test Alert (NSC Action No. 2231)", Foreign Relations...
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U2 (disambiguation) (redirect from U-2)
released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Search for "u2" or "u-2" on Wikipedia. All pages with titles containing U-2 1960 U-2 incident, an international...
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Central Intelligence Agency (redirect from U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
additional six days because of poor weather. On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Air Forces shot down a U-2 flying over Soviet territory. To Eisenhower, the ensuing...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (redirect from 34th U.S. President)
nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union, but following the 1960 U-2 incident the Kremlin canceled a scheduled summit in Paris. As he promised,...
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