Francis Gary Powers [[electronic resource] /] / Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910697208003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, D.C.] : , : Federal Bureau of Investigation, , [2003?]
• Descrizione fisica: 8 unnumbered volumes (various pagings) : digital, PDF files
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed on July 23, 2008).; Redacted.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.