Francis Gary Powers
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title:
Francis Gary Powers
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Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union. Powers survived, but was captured and sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison for espionage. He served 21 months of his sentence before being released in a prisoner swap in 1962. After returning to the US, he worked at Lockheed as a tes
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American pilot (1929–1977)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers
date created:
2001-11-28T14:14:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T13:51:50Z
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