Mayday: The U-2 Affair
โ Michael R. Beschloss
๐ Library
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1987
๐ HarperCollins Publishers
๐ English
Francis Gary Powers, discharged from the USAF in '56 as a captain, joined CIA's U-2 program. U-2s flew at over 70,000', invulnerable to Soviet anti-aircraft weapons, taking high-resolution photos from the stratosphere of military & other sites. Soviet intelligence had been aware of them since '56, b