Francis Gary Powers /
Francis Gary Powers, an Air Force test pilot, was born on October 17, 1929, in Jenkins, Kentucky. In May of 1960, Powers was shot down while piloting the Lockheed U-2 spy plane over the Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union. On August 19, 1960, Francis Gary Powers was sentenced to ten years "depri...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
[2003?]
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| Online Access: | https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS98074 |
| Summary: | Francis Gary Powers, an Air Force test pilot, was born on October 17, 1929, in Jenkins, Kentucky. In May of 1960, Powers was shot down while piloting the Lockheed U-2 spy plane over the Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union. On August 19, 1960, Francis Gary Powers was sentenced to ten years "deprivation of liberty" by a three-man Russian military tribunal on charges of spying against the Soviet Union. The United States exchanged convicted Soviet spy Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel for Powers in 1962. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen (viewed on July 23, 2008). Redacted. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 8 unnumbered volumes (various pagings) : digital, PDF files. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet from Federal Bureau of Investigation web site. Address as of 7/23/08: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/powers%5Ffrancis.htm ; current access available via PURL. |