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The U2 Files: Mayday, 1960

Was the downing of Gary Powers’ U2 flight sabotage, or a terribly inconvenient accident? After four years of uneventful missions, why had this flight suddenly crashed on Mayday, two weeks before an unprecedented summit scheduled in Paris between Eisenhower and Khruschev — and who exactly authorized the flight on that date? “Who controls the past, controls [...]
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