A downed pilot. 60 years of loud spy history of the Cold War
60 years ago, on May 1, 1960, the Soviet Air Defense Forces shot down the U-2 American intelligence plane in the Sverdlovsk area, which flew at high altitude over the territory of the USSR for photography of secret facilities. The American pilot Francis Gary Powers catapulted, was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison after the public trial. A year and a half, in 1962, Powers was exchanged at the imprisoned in the United States of the Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel.