5. News Conference Statement by the President, May 11, 1960 I have made some notes from which I want to talk to you about this U-2 incident. A full statement about this matter has been made by the ...

The plane went into service in 1955 but most folks never heard about them until the U-2 incident in 1960. Lockheed produced 104 U-2 planes through the end of the 1980s. A number of them are still ...

The U-2 incident shattered these efforts. It also humiliated U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had to admit that an initial claim by his administration that the plane was on a weather ...

The U-2 spy incident forced the United States to admit to the Soviets that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. Gary Powers ...

The U-2 incident shattered these efforts. It also humiliated U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had to admit that an initial claim by his administration that the plane was on a weather ...

In the heavily censored transcript of the secret Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the U-2 incident and summit failure, the U.S. last week found some more answers to some lingering ...

The Soviets were especially dangerous if they knew the U-2 was coming. According to an official protest subsequently lodged with the US government by the foreign minister of Afghanistan, for ...

U-2 Incident (1960) Posted: 18 February 2025 | Last updated: 18 February 2025 On May 1, 1960, a U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace, exposing a top-secret American surveillance ...