[DOC] [TLE] U-2 Spy Incident - Cold War - HISTORY.com [PAR] High-altitude U-2 spy planes began making reconnaissance flights over the ... 
Powers chose not to use the needle when he was shot down over the Soviet 
Union in 1960, ... On May 1, that weapon locked onto a U-2 flown by 30-year-old 
CIA pilot ... If all had gone according to plan, Powers' nine-hour flight would have 
taken... [DOC] [TLE] American U-2 spy plane shot down - May 01, 1960 - HISTORY.com [PAR] On this day in History, American U-2 spy plane shot down on May 01, 1960. ... 
The CIA assured President Eisenhower that the Soviets did not possess anti-
aircraft weapons sophisticated enough to shoot down the high-altitude planes. ... 
With no small degree of pleasure, Khrushchev pulled off one of the most dramatic
... [DOC] [TLE] Mayday 1960 - Gary Powers U-2 Flight - Area 51 Special Projects [PAR] After a Russian missile made "just one more" U.S. spy plane flight the last, ... The 
stenographer entered the date -- May 1, 1960 -- and, as the questions and ... The 
CIA offered crack fighter pilot Francis Gary Powers $30,000 a year ... Let it slow 
down Suicide needle to be used by U-2 pilots rather than risk capture in enemy [DOC] [TLE] 1960 U-2 incident - Wikipedia [PAR] The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the 
presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, 
when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The 
aircraft, flown by Central Intelligence Agency pilot Francis Gary Powers, ... Using 
British pilots allowed Eisenhower to be able to use the U-2 plane to... [DOC] [TLE] "The Sabotaging of the American Presidency" -- the U-2 debacle by ... [PAR] I include this article by Fletcher Prouty as access to more of the history that has 
been .... That U-2, flown into the USSR on May 1, 1960 by Francis Gary Powers 
was not on a spy mission ... to have been shot down, few people knew what was 
true and what was not. ... [1] That airplane was a CIA, civilian-piloted U-2 spy 
plane. [DOC] [TLE] The U-2 Program: A Russian Officer Remembers  Central ... - CIA [PAR] Apr 14, 2007 ... But would you like to have a look at our missiles? ... Soviet military intelligence 
was fully aware of U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance flights .... Hours before the 
beginning of the annual May Day parade in 1960, Soviet Air Defense ... 
Khrushchev demanded that the intruding aircraft be shot down at all costs. [DOC] [TLE] The Oxcart Story  Central Intelligence Agency - CIA [PAR] May 8, 2007 ... The probability of being shot down was not of course reduced to ... which could 
fly at extremely high speeds as well as at great altitudes, .... For one thing, no 
metal hitherto commonly used in aircraft ..... After all, not every experimental 
aircraft of advanced performance has survived its flight testing period. [DOC] [TLE] May - July 1960 : The U-2 Airplane Incident - Avalon Project [PAR] 2231)(1). The President said there was a matter he would like to take up with the 
Council. ... It must be well understood in advance in the Administration how far 
officials ... the last one, had been so successful that we may have become 
careless. ... could inform them that the plane had not been shot down at this high 
altitude. [DOC] [TLE] Scientific and Technical Intelligence - AFIO - AFIO - Association of ... [PAR] other intelligence questions as well: 1) Get spies inside the Soviet Union, 2) Use 
high-altitude aerial reconnais- sance to see ... USSR on July 4, 1956 and 
continued until the May 1, 1960 shoot- down of Francis Gary Powers. As a 
testament to ... CIA, Syria, and the SVR  Management of Advanced 
Cryptographic Systems . [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 5. The U-2 Crisis [PAR] tion of spying by then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, on May 5, 1960. In the U-
2 case, ... capable of shoot- ing down the

Question: Advanced CIA methods have included use of this high altitude aircraft; one was shot down May 1, 1960
Answer: U-2