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Military.com: Francis Gary Powers: One Man, Two Countries

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This profile of the American pilot Francis Gary Powers discusses the mission of the U-2 reconnaissance flights during the Cold War as well as the international incident surrounding the shooting down of his U-2 over the Soviet Union.

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espionage, intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, cold war, cia, francis gary powers, francis gary powers: one man, two countries, gary powers, military.com, president eisenhower, rudolf abel, soviet union, u-2 spy plane, ussr, united states, u-2
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