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The 30 year old American pictured here on trial in 1960 as a spy in a cold-war Soviet Union court room, spent 17 months in prison for it. He literally flew over downtown Moscow alone, unarmed and unafraid. The related so-called 'U2 Incident' grabbed world headlines at the time, and afforded him more than his share of the proverbial allotment of 15 minutes of fame. He died in 1977 at 47 when a television news helicopter he was piloting crashed in Los Angeles.
... Francis Gary Powers (1929-77) 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.
... Francis Gary Powers (1929-77) 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.
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