Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down...
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1977 Encino helicopter crash (redirect from 1977 Gary Powers helicopter crash)
by American pilot Francis Gary Powers ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Encino, Los Angeles, California, killing Powers and the aircraft's...
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1960 U-2 incident (redirect from Gary Powers incident)
reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and crashed...
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James B. Donovan (section Release of Gary Powers)
negotiating the 1960–1962 exchange of captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and American student Frederic Pryor for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, and...
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Intelligence Star (section Francis Gary Powers)
"CIA FOIA – Francis Gary Powers: U-2 Spy Pilot Shot Down by the Soviets". Archived from the original on August 31, 2012. Powers, Francis Gary; Curt Gentry...
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James B. Donovan, who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers—a convicted Central Intelligence Agency pilot whose U-2 spy plane...
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sequel Dolphin Tale 2, Love and Honor (2013), Whiplash (2014), and as Francis Gary Powers in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015). Stowell was born as...
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the 1970s. The television film Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976, as Francis Gary Powers), the Viking film The Norseman...
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War history. The museum was founded in 1996 by Francis Gary Powers Jr. (son of pilot Francis Gary Powers) and John C. Welch to preserve Cold War history...
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Francis Powers may refer to: Francis Powers (actor) (1865–1940), American silent film actor, writer, and director Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), American...
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Cold War "spy swap" that also involved downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. He spent the bulk of his career as a member of the Swarthmore College...
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developed in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. On 1 May 1960, Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 espionage mission from northern Pakistan over the Soviet...
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exchanged for American Central Intelligence Agency Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, who was a prisoner of the Soviet Union. The case has been dramatized...
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The CIA formally placed an order for 12 A-12 aircraft. 1 May 1960: Francis Gary Powers is shot down in a U-2 over the Soviet Union. He safely ejected and...
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saxitoxin-impregnated needle hidden inside a fake silver dollar was issued to Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot who was shot down while flying over the USSR...
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In 1952 the Communist Chinese captured two CIA agents and in 1960 Francis Gary Powers, flying a U-2 reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union for the...
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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 deployed...
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sentence before he was exchanged for captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. Back in the Soviet Union, he lectured on his experiences. He died...
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Five-O. David appeared in TV movies such as Nikita Khrushchev in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) and The Amazing Howard...
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soldiers to communicate securely with each other. The wreckage of Francis Gary Powers' U-2 plane. A 1922 Silver Dollar with Suicide Pin that was made by...
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missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Its pilot, Francis Gary Powers of the Central Intelligence Agency, is captured. In India, this day...
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Milton C. Portmann Charles E. Potter Geronimo Pratt Tommy Prince Francis Gary Powers Ralph Puckett (two awards) Chesty Puller Lewis Burwell Puller Jr...
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recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF). 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet...
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JetRanger III's range. On August 1, 1977, famous U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was piloting a helicopter for KNBC Channel 4 over West Los Angeles...
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his final appearance, as U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976), a dramatization of...
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also authorized U-2 reconnaissance flights, including the flight of Francis Gary Powers. Later in his career, he served as the Chief of the U.S. Liaison...
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Pryor and U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Pryor's release happens offscreen while the trade of Powers for Abel takes place...
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It ended up not being made. Neither was a proposed movie about Francis Gary Powers made. Clavell did write, produce, and direct a Western at Paramount...
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exactly two months after the far better known U-2 shootdown involving Francis Gary Powers, and added to the tensions created by that incident. The plane was...
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Matt Hodges TV movie 1975 One of Our Own Dr. Moresby TV movie 1976 Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident Bissell TV movie 1976 That...
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