U-2 Incident
1960 shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, causing a major diplomatic crisis and collapse of the Paris Summit.
The U-2 Incident refers to the shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The incident, involving pilot Gary Francis Powers, caused a major international crisis and led to the ruin of Eisenhower's Paris summit meeting scheduled for a few weeks later. It also prompted Eisenhower to order an end to all reconnaissance flights over Russia.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 4, 6. ↩
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