White House Office, Office of the Staff Secretary: Records of Paul T. Carroll, Andrew J. Goodpaster, L. Arthur Minnich, and Christopher H. Russell, 1952 - 1961. Alphabetical Subject Files, 1953 - 1961. U-2 Incident [Vol. III] [July-August 1960] (3). Telegram from American Embassy in Moscow to Sec

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White House Office, Office of the Staff Secretary: Records of Paul T. Carroll, Andrew J. Goodpaster, L. Arthur Minnich, and Christopher H. Russell, 1952 - 1961. Alphabetical Subject Files, 1953 - 1961. U-2 Incident [Vol. III] [July-August 1960] (3). Telegram from American Embassy in Moscow to Secretary of State on Francis Gary Powers Trial, 8/18/1960.

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This telegram to the Secretary of State from the American Embassy in Moscow describes reactions from President Eisenhower and the Soviet press relating to the trial of Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the American U-2 spy plane that crashed in the Soviet Union in May 1960.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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Powers, Francis Gary, 1929-1977

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Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. He later worked as a helicopter pilot for KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a 1977 helicopter crash....