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    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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    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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    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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    when it was withdrawn from Asia after the May 1960 U-2 incident.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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Analogous incidents: 1958 C-130 shootdown incident 1960 U-2 incident Hainan Island incident "Accident Boeing RB-47H Stratojet 53-4281, 01 Jul 1960". aviation-safety...
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    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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    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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    victorious outcomes in the Suez Crisis, the Syrian Crisis of 1957, and the 1960 U-2 incident. By the early 1960s, however, support for Khrushchev's leadership...
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    Lockheed U-2 spy plane specifically designed for high-altitude reconnaissance flight. The overflight program was ended following the 1960 U-2 incident. After...
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    May 1960, The Thing was mentioned on the fourth day of meetings in the United Nations Security Council, convened by the Soviet Union over the 1960 U-2 incident...
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    Chinese balloon incident. Wikinews has related news: Tensions increase as US recovers downed Chinese "spy balloon" debris 1960 U-2 incident Balloon buster...
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  • Pyotr Semyonovich Popov (category 1960 deaths)
    On 1 May 1960 a U-2 was shot down over the Soviet Union, in the 1960 U-2 incident. Popov was dismissed from the GRU in November 1958, and placed on...
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  • Vernon, Scott (28 May 1960). "U-2 Incident Causes Movie Repercussions". Los Ambrose Times. p. A7. Zolotow, Sam (5 August 1960). "ELLIS LISTS STARS OF...
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  • prewar incursions into Soviet airspace before Operation Barbarossa 1960 U-2 incident when a spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace Seaboard World...
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    screenplay for the dramatic historical thriller Bridge of Spies, about the 1960 U-2 Incident. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and released on October...
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  • Operation Grand Slam, the US espionage mission which triggered the 1960 U-2 incident Grand Slam breakfast, a dish at Denny's restaurants Operation Grand...
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    attended by the sister of one of the USAF crewmen. 1960 RB-47 shootdown incident 1960 U-2 incident Air-to-air combat losses between the Soviet Union and...
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  • Fleming novel the code name for U.S. espionage mission 4154 over the Soviet Union that led to the 1960 U-2 incident Operation Grandslam, the United Nations-led...
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  • plane crash. 1960U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro...
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    was an American pilot whose CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while over the Soviet Union, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. Lee Sexton (Country, bluegrass...
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  • 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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    Khan significantly improved relations with the United States. The 1960 U-2 incident severely damaged relations, with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev...
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  • the band's struggles with their former label SST Records and the 1960 U-2 incident. Tracks 3 and 4 are from the original 1991 EP. After 8:56 of silence...
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    Hollow Nickel Case (category United States espionage scandals and incidents)
    the later prisoner exchange of Abel and Francis Gary Powers of the 1960 U-2 incident. A March 2016 episode of the American Heroes Channel's series What...
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    Ethan Coen. The film is set during the Cold War and is based on the 1960 U-2 incident and its aftermath. Tom Hanks plays lawyer James B. Donovan who is...
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  • 1960, another 100 agents were dispatched. This first phase enabled the CIA to map a previously unknown network of antiaircraft missiles. The 1960 U-2...
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