U-2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union

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• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA whole source · open book

  On May Day, as the president had feared, the U-2 was shot down in central Russia. The CIA’s pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was captured alive.

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• Dwight D. Eisenhower the president caught in the U-2 affair

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