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    Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers...
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    reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and crashed...
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    "CIA FOIA – Francis Gary Powers: U-2 Spy Pilot Shot Down by the Soviets". Archived from the original on August 31, 2012. Powers, Francis Gary; Curt Gentry...
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    by American pilot Francis Gary Powers ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Encino, Los Angeles, California, killing Powers and the aircraft's...
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    negotiating the 1960–1962 exchange of captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and American student Frederic Pryor for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, and...
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    its sequel Dolphin Tale 2, Love and Honor (2013), Whiplash (2014), Francis Gary Powers in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015)., Nately in Catch-22...
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    the 1970s. The television film Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976, as Francis Gary Powers), the Viking film The Norseman...
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  • James B. Donovan, who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers—a convicted Central Intelligence Agency pilot whose U-2 spy plane...
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  • Francis Powers may refer to: Francis Powers (actor) (1865–1940), American silent film actor, writer, and director Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), American...
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  • War history. The museum was founded in 1996 by Francis Gary Powers Jr. (son of pilot Francis Gary Powers) and John C. Welch to preserve Cold War history...
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  • Cold War "spy swap" that also involved downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. He spent the bulk of his career as a member of the Swarthmore College...
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  • developed in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. On 1 May 1960, Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 espionage mission from northern Pakistan over the Soviet...
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    exchanged for American Central Intelligence Agency Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, who was a prisoner of the Soviet Union. The case has been dramatized...
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    sentence before he was exchanged for captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. Back in the Soviet Union, he lectured on his experiences. He died...
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    The CIA formally placed an order for 12 A-12 aircraft. 1 May 1960: Francis Gary Powers is shot down in a U-2 over the Soviet Union. He safely ejected and...
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    saxitoxin-impregnated needle hidden inside a fake silver dollar was issued to Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot who was shot down while flying over the USSR...
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    deployed in the 1960 U-2 incident, when it shot down the U-2 of Francis Gary Powers overflying the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The system was also deployed...
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  • In 1952 the Communist Chinese captured two CIA agents and in 1960 Francis Gary Powers, flying a U-2 reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union for the...
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    also authorized U-2 reconnaissance flights, including the flight of Francis Gary Powers. Later in his career, he served as the Chief of the U.S. Liaison...
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  • overflight took place on July 4 1956. The U-2 ceased overflights when Francis Gary Powers was shot down during a mission on May 1, 1960, while over Russia...
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    soldiers to communicate securely with each other. The wreckage of Francis Gary Powers' U-2 plane. A 1922 Silver Dollar with Suicide Pin that was made by...
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  • Five-O. David appeared in TV movies such as Nikita Khrushchev in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) and The Amazing Howard...
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  • American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow. August 19 – In the Soviet Union: Cold War: American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced in...
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    Milton C. Portmann Charles E. Potter Geronimo Pratt Tommy Prince Francis Gary Powers Ralph Puckett (two awards) Chesty Puller Lewis Burwell Puller Jr...
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    JetRanger III's range. On August 1, 1977, famous U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was piloting a helicopter for KNBC Channel 4 over West Los Angeles...
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    planes, named "A-12", on 11 February 1960. The 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers's U-2 underscored that aircraft's vulnerability and the need for faster...
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    Matt Hodges TV movie 1975 One of Our Own Dr. Moresby TV movie 1976 Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident Bissell TV movie 1976 That...
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    North Carolina Lee Smith – writer Mel Street – country music singer Francis Gary Powers - Lived in Grundy for a time and graduated from Grundy High School...
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  • It ended up not being made. Neither was a proposed movie about Francis Gary Powers made. Clavell did write, produce, and direct a Western at Paramount...
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    Pryor and U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Pryor's release happens offscreen while the trade of Powers for Abel takes place...
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