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The Paris Summit Meeting was scheduled for a few weeks after the U-2 Incident in May 1960, but was ruined by Nikita Khrushchev's rage at the incident, which caught the White House in a series of lies. This event led Dwight D. Eisenhower to order an end to all reconnaissance flights over Russia.1
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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 6. ↩︎