CONTENTS CASUS BELLI Airborne Spy Divided by an Iron Curtain CHAPTERS CH 1 Spy vs Spy CH 2 Go Go Gadget CH 3 Women Keep Informed CH 4 Seeing Double AT WAR’S END End of an Era COVERT OPS Floating Spies Dangling the Truth A Garbage Bag Worth Millions Checkpoint Charlie A Cool Hotline Speaking at the Wall Cold War Timeline Glossary Selected Bibliography Websites Index 7 8 10 18 26 34 42 9 13 21 31 37 43 44 46 47 47 48
On May 1 1960 Francis Gary Powers an American pilot flying for the Cen tral Intelligence Agency CIA took off from Pakistan in an ultra-modern high-powered spy plane known as the U-2 He planned to fly over the Soviet Union at an altitude of more than 70,000 feet 21,336 m to take photo graphs of new Soviet missile sites before landing safely in Norway Sud denly in mid-flight a missile exploded near the aircraft and the U-2 tumbled out of control Powers had been trained to do two things if his top-secret plane was compromised first inject himself with poison and then hit a switch to blow up the plane As the aircraft spun he was unable to do either Instead he was ejected from the plane and para chuted to the ground where he was quickly captured Within days Soviet premier government leader Nikita Khrushchev publicly condemned the United States for heating up the Cold War with such an act of deception AIRBORNE SPY
