Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (NARA)
U-2 Spy Plane Incident (Eisenhower Library online documents)
Collection · written May 1960 · released Unknown
Why this matters
Declassified memos, cover-story drafts and meeting notes from May 1960, when the Soviets shot down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 and exposed the cover story that it was a NASA weather plane. The papers show the administration putting together, and then abandoning, a public denial in a matter of days. The episode wrecked the Paris summit.
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https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/u-2-spy-plane-incident
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (NARA). "U-2 Spy Plane Incident (Eisenhower Library online documents)." May 1960. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/u-2-spy-plane-incident (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0024).
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