In the sixth days of April (Boxer), May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. the


pilot Francis Gary Powers In May 1960, a U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft in the United States in Russia over Soviet missile shot down, pilots Gary - Bowles captured.
Bowers was not injured, he had to admit that he is from Pakistan to Norway all the way to the implementation of the photographic reconnaissance missions. U.S. President Eisenhower Administration immediately publicly claimed that such flights are necessary for national security. But this event is developing between the United States and the Soviet Union to ease severely compromised. Khrushchev demanded U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to make a public apology. Khrushchev refused to attend the United States and the Soviet Union the British and French 4 summit scheduled to be held in Paris in May, after being rejected. The Paris meeting was aborted. (History com)
Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev angrily condemned the United States to send a U-2 aircraft to carry out espionage activities in Russia "aggression". Eisenhower promised such a thing will not happen again. But this does not make Khrushchev been pacified. U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused on this event "handle very wrong". - Gary Powers had to stand in a Moscow court to be tried in public, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Russia withdrew from the Disarmament in Geneva.
U-2 aircraft incident attracted worldwide attention, but it almost did not have any effect on the world stepped up to the inevitable with the adventurous "intelligence" activities.