Diplomatic Papers of the United States dealing with relations with the Soviet Union particularly with the U2 Airplane Incident and the RB47 Airplane Incident ...

Next | ToC | Prev Chapter 20 Krushchev's Challenge: The U-2 Dilemma AS THE GLOW OF SUNRISE ILLUMINED the snowcapped peaks of the Western Himalayas, the pilot moved the throttle lever to full power and the heavily laden plane began a lazy roll down the long runway at Peshawar. The engine whined, the rate of acceleration was slow, and with each unevenness of the runway the long downward sloping ...

Read about the event that increase tensions during the Cold War and provided the example for future relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

MAY - JULY 1960: THE U - 2 AIRPLANE INCIDENT 147. Editorial Note On May 1, a U.S. U - 2 unarmed reconnaissance plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers who was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was shot down by Soviet military authorities 1, 200 miles inside the Soviet Union near Sverdlovsk. In the following days, Nikita Khru-shchev exploited the incident to sabotage the summit meeting ...