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	U-2 Crisis of 1960 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The U-2 Crisis of 1960 occurred when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
		On May 1, 1960 (fifteen days before the scheduled opening of an East-West summit conference in Paris), a U.S. Lockheed U-2 spy plane, piloted by Gary Powers, left Peshawar, Pakistan intending to overfly the Soviet Union and land at Bodø, Norway.
		Another result of the crisis was that the US Corona spy satellite project was accelerated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U-2_Crisis_of_1960 (659 words)

	U-2 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about U-2
		In 1960 a U-2 was shot down over the USSR and the pilot, Gary Powers, was captured and imprisoned.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
		US military reconnaissance aeroplane, used in secret flights over the USSR from 1956 to photograph military installations.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /U-2 (164 words)

	Talk:U-2 Crisis of 1960 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I've heard a number of notable people who claim that the U-2 crisis was an intentional effort by ultra-hawkish anti-communist forces within the military to prevent the Paris Summit from being a success by angering the Soviets.
		They argue the pilot was setup so he could be shot down by the Soviets and create the crisis.
		Eisenhower is said to have been out of the loop and thus essentially stabbed in the back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:U-2_Crisis_of_1960 (228 words)

	Gary Powers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1960 Powers was the pilot involved in the U-2 Incident; after being shot down on 1 May 1960 over Sverdlovsk, he was convicted of espionage against the Soviet Union and sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment and 7 years of hard labor.
		When asked how high he was flying on 1 May 1960, he would often reply, "not high enough".
		In 2000, on the 40th anniversary of Powers being shot down, his family was finally presented with his posthumously awarded Prisoner of War Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross and National Defense Service Medal.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Francis_Gary_Powers (588 words)

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	The Avalon Project : The U-2 Incident 1960
		It is in relation to the danger of surprise attack that planes of the type of unarmed civilian U-2 aircraft have made flights along the frontiers of the free world for the past 4 years.
		On May 7 the Department of State spokesman made a statement with respect to the alleged shooting down of an unarmed American civilian aircraft of the U-2 type over the Soviet Union.
		This means that espionage activities of American aircraft are carried on with the sanction of the Government of the United States of America.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/u2.htm (3043 words)

	Espionage - Unipedia
		In Britain a foreign spy would face up to 14 years imprisonment under the Official Secrets Act while a Briton who spied for a foreign country would face a maximum life sentence for treason if it could be proved they were aiding Britain's enemies.
		VENONA Project (break of Soviet spy codes by US and UK)
		For example, espionage is still a capital crime in the USA; however, the death penalty is rarely used in espionage cases in the U.S. since the government will bargain away a death penalty sentence in exchange for information.
	www.unipedia.info /Spy.html (709 words)

	Booknotes
		The Cuban missile crisis, for instance, in the fall of '62, we had neighbors in Illinois -- this would have been about 40 miles south of Chicago -- who were building a bomb shelter, and we children were told not to eat the snow because the Russians had put radioactivity in it.
		Second time was during the Cuban missile crisis, October of '62.
		In 1960, he was approached by officials of the CIA who essentially said, "We know that you have associates in Cuba," because the Mafia was very involved in Cuba before Castro.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1060 (8224 words)

	U-2 Shot Down during Cuban Missile Crisis - US Air Force Museum Cold War History Gallery
		Anderson was killed in the crash of his plane and was the only man killed during the crisis.
		As the plane flew over the Cuban naval facilities at Banes, a Soviet-built SA-2 "Guideline" surface-to-air missile (SAM) was fired at the U-2A in violation of specific instructions from Soviet Premier Krushchev not to fire on US reconnaissance planes.
		The SAM warhead detonated in close proximity to the U-2A and a small piece of shrapnel from it penetrated the cockpit and punctured Anderson's pressure suit causing him to become unconscious.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/history/coldwar/cw14.htm (262 words)

	Potsdam Conference - Psychology Central
		The Potsdam Conference was a conference held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), from July 17 to August 2, 1945.
		The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the largest and most powerful of the victorious Allies that defeated the Axis Powers in World War II.
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	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Potsdam_Conference (805 words)

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		Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the missile crisis, and the Soviet collapse; foreword by Jorge I. Dominguez.
		Blight, James G. and Bruce J. Allyn, and David A. Welch, with the assistance of David Lewis.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/20th/coldwarbooks.html (3088 words)

	1960 – 1969 World History
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	James Madison University - JMU PROFESSOR INTERPRETED U-2 PHOTOS DURING '62 MISSILE CRISIS
		Gustafson attended a Washington, D.C., ceremony in 1998 at which CIA Director George J. Tenet paid tribute to the U-2, to U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers who was shot down by the Soviets in 1960 and to the 45 men who lost their lives flying the spy plane.
		During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was stationed at a Strategic Air Command bomber wing in Texas and was an eyewitness to the increased tensions.
		President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved the program in 1954, but because he believed provocative flights over Soviet airspace could be construed as an act of war, he insisted that a civilian rather than a military agency administer it.
	www.jmu.edu /jmuweb/general/news/general_200111291451.shtml (722 words)

	Mayday 1960 - Gary Powers U-2 Flight
		Numbers being used in by CIA U-2s in the US in 1964 were in the series N801X thru N809X but not used in 1960 at the time of the Powers incident..
		The President said the U-2 flights were made because it was necessary for us to find out whether the Soviets were hardening their airbases or not, but of course it was impossible for us to say this publicly.
		During the 1956 Suez Crisis they monitored the troop movements of America's allies, Britain and France -- a secret that, if discovered and made known by the Soviets, might have ruptured the NATO alliance -- and Powers himself overflew the first daylight fighting in the Sinai.
	area51specialprojects.com /u2_mayday.html (8898 words)

	Bodø, Norway
		Bodø received international attention during the U-2 Crisis in May 1960, when it became known that the American U-2 pilot Gary Powers had been shot down over the Soviet Union on his way from Pakistan to Bodø.
		The city lies just north of the Arctic Circle and the midnight sun is visible from June 2 to July 10.
		But only 15 people lost their life during the air-attack (2 British soldiers and 13 Norwegians).
	creekin.net /c5400-n139-bod-norway.html (373 words)

	May 7 Online Research :: Information about May 7
		1960 - Cold War : U-2 Crisis of 1960 - Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding United States Lockheed U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
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		According to Soviet defector (Click link for more info and facts about Viktor Belenko) Viktor Belenko, a Soviet fighter pursuing Powers was caught and destroyed in the missile salvo [1].
	21migsmt.idsmt.com /belenkouej (1109 words)

	U-2 Spy Plane Incident
		In May 1960, plans were finalized for a crucial Paris summit conference between western nations and leaders of the Soviet Union with disarmament to be the main focus.
		At the height of the "cold war," as critics of the Eisenhower administration complained about the growing "missile gap," the United States secretly gathered data on Soviet missile capabilities through photographs obtained from U-2 reconnaissance plane overflights of the Soviet Union.
		Memorandum for Director of Central Intelligence Agency concerning use of U-2 reconnaissance to determine status of Soviet ICBM program:
	www.eisenhower.utexas.edu /dl/U2Incident/u2documents.html (781 words)

	American and Canadian Studies Staff Peter Boyle
		He is also working on a study of Britain, America and the U-2 crisis of 1960, which is based on research in recently-opened documents in the Eisenhower Papers in the Dwight D. Library in Abilene, Kansas, and in the Public Record Office in the National Archives in Kew, Surrey.
		He is currently editing British Documents on Foreign Policy: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, Part 5, Series C, Volume 1, 1951, to be published by University Publications of America.
		He currently has three Ph.D. students who are nearing completion.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /american/staff/pboyle.htm (155 words)

	Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community
		The story of the U-2 crisis in 1960 is well known, including President Eisenhower's decision to tell a fib to the public in order to protect a national-security secret.
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	www.boomantribune.com /story/2005/12/24/135735/33 (7487 words)

	National Portrait Gallery Paul Peck Presidential Initiative 2005 Awards
		, former U.S. senator, and presidential journalist Hugh Sidey have been named as the recipients of the 2005 Paul Peck Presidential Awards presented by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
		The award recognizes Sidey's protrayal of U.S. presidents in a fair and informative way for a very large audience.
		During these years, Sidey became one of the most knowledgeable experts on the presidency and the men who have held the office.
	www.npg.si.edu /event2/initiative5.htm (811 words)

	U 2 Spy Plane
		Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 â“ August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down while over the Soviet Union, thus causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960
		An American U-2 spy plane crashed early Wednesday morning in the United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot, U.S. military officials said.
		Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater.
	spy.my-gadgets.info /u-2-spy-plane.php (602 words)

	Top-Secret Hearings by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: First Installment, 1959-1966. Edited by Paul Kesaris
		The numbers of crucial topics under discussion ranged from the "missile gap" (1959), the U-2 crisis (1960) and the Bay of Pigs fiasco (1961) to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963), the Middle East (1965) and Vietnam (1966).
		To locate an item, give call number, title of the collection and the reel number.
		Top-Secret Hearings by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: First Installment, 1959-1966.
	library.utoronto.ca /robarts/microtext/collection/pages/topsecru.html (198 words)

	U-2 Timeline 1960s
		CIA U-2 takes first photo of Russian missile build-up in Cuba starting "Cuban missile Crisis"; CIA Pilot: Bob Ericson
		USAF receives U-2D (2 place, not trainer) used for "Smokey Joe" project(watching and analyzing missile exhaust)
		First U-2 with full dorsal "canoe" fairing with updated defensive systems.
	www.blackbirds.net /u2/u2-timeline/u2tl60.html (1155 words)

	History 202 Lecture 27 Outline
		C. The Cold War After Stalin: The U-2 Crisis (1960)
	web.nmsu.edu /~jbronste/outline27.html (26 words)

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	Congo Crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Congo Crisis (1960-1965) was a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo that began with national independence from Belgium and ended with the seizing of power by Joseph Mobutu.
		The independent Republic of the Congo was declared on 30 June 1960, with Joseph Kasavubu as President and Patrice Lumumba as Prime Minister.
		It shared a name with the neighboring Republic of the Congo to the west, a French colony that also gained independence in 1960, and the two were normally differentiated by also stating the name of the relevant capital city, so Congo (Léopoldville) versus Congo (Brazzaville).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Congo_Crisis (2048 words)

	U.S. Department of State on the Congo
		During the Congo crisis of 1960-1961, both the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations were deeply concerned with the threat of Soviet domination of the Republic of the Congo (now Zaire) and with Soviet influence on the charismatic Patrice Lumumba and his followers.
		The recurrent crisis in the Republic of the Congo (now Zaire) was one of the key problems of U.S. foreign policy in the first 2 years of the Presidency of John F. Kennedy, as it had been in the last 6 months of the Presidency of Dwight D.
		For 14 months after the outbreak of the crisis in July 1960, the threat of Soviet domination of the Congo through Soviet influence on the charismatic Patrice Lumumba and on his followers was a major concern of both the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.
	shs.westport.k12.ct.us /jwb/Collab/PWB/StDept.htm (6827 words)

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