A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the Cia's Secret War

by Monte Reel

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On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA concocted a cover story for President Eisenhower to deliver, assuring him that no one could have survived a fall from that altitude. And even if pilot Francis Gary Powers had survived, he had been supplied with a poison pin with which to commit suicide. But against all odds, Powers emerged from the wreckage and was seized by the KGB. He confessed to espionage charges, revealing to the world that Eisenhower had...Read more
  • ISBN10 0385540205
  • ISBN13 9780385540209
  • Publish Date 8 May 2018
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Imprint Doubleday Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English