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). Highlights of Powers Trial, 8/19/1960.

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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). Highlights of Powers Trial, 8/19/1960.

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This is the U.S. State Department's summary of the trial of pilot Francis Gary Powers for espionage in the Soviet Union.

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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....