After the U.S.S.R. shot down the U.S.’s U-2 spy plane in 1960, the Soviets were able to recover wreckage of the plane as well as the pictures it took because the plane’s self-destruct mechanism was not powerful enough to destroy the evidence.
Francis Gary Powers, Jr. and Keith Dunnavant, Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2019), 79.
Francis Gary Powers, Jr. and Keith Dunnavant, Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2019), 79.
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