Insiden U-2 1960

Pada 1 Mei 1960, sebuah pesawat mata-mata U-2 Amerika Serikat ditembak jatuh oleh Pasukan Pertahanan Udara Soviet saat melakukan fotografi udara di teritorial Soviet. Diterbangkan oleh pilot Francis Gary Powers, pesawat tersebut dihantam oleh sebuah misil permukaan udara S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) dan jatuh di dekat Sverdlovsk (sekarang Yekaterinburg). Powers berparasut dengan selamat dan ditangkap.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan 
 Sergei N. Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower. State College, PA: Penn State Press, 2000. .
 Jay Miller. Lockheed U-2; Aerograph 3. Aerofax Inc., 1983 (paperback) .
 
 Chris Pocock. Dragon Lady; The History of the U-2 Spyplane. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1989 (paperback). .
 Chris Pocock. 50 Years of the U-2; The Complete Illustrated History of the "Dragon Lady". Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2005. .
 Phil Taubman. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. .
 David M. Watry. Diplomacy at the Brink: Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
 Nigel West, Seven Spies Who Changed the World. London: Secker & Warburg, 1991 (hard cover). . London: Mandarin, 1992 (paperback). .

Pranala luar 
 The U-2 airplane incident , according to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
 1962 Russia frees US spy plane pilot
 Chelyabinsk-65/Ozersk
 The U-2 Spy Plane Incident  – slideshow by Life magazine
 Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum – contains a number of artifacts and documents relating to the U-2 incident
 "The CIA and the U-2 Program" (1998)  – Central Intelligence Agency
 Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow
 
 
 
 
 

Hubungan internasional dalam tahun 1960