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title: U-2 Incident
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aliases:
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- U-2 Incident
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- U-2 Affair
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- Powers Incident
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created: 2026-05-17
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updated: 2026-05-17
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category: "Intelligence Scandal"
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tags:
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- Event
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- ColdWar
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- Espionage
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- 1960s
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summary: "1960 shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, causing a major diplomatic crisis and collapse of the Paris Summit."
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start: 1960-05-01
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location: "Soviet Union"
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The [[U-2 Spy Plane|U-2]] Incident refers to the shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the [[Soviet Union]] on May 1, 1960. The incident, involving pilot [[Gary Francis Powers]], caused a major international crisis and led to the ruin of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]]'s Paris summit meeting scheduled for a few weeks later. It also prompted Eisenhower to order an end to all reconnaissance flights over [[Russia]].[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 4, 6. |