Operation Overflight
Subtitle: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781574884227
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Biography: general; Military intelligence; Military - Aviation; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Aerial Operations; Intelligence Operations; Military Science; History; Biography / Autobiography; Military; History: American; USA; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; History / Military / Aviation; Powers, Francis Gary; Powers, Francis Gary,; 1929-; U-2 Incident, 1960; Cold War
First sentence: I have never thought of myself as a spy, yet in a certain sense this attitude is probably naive, for Operation Overflight was to change many of the traditional definitions of espionage, providing a bridge between the age of the "deep-cover" cloak-and-dagger agent and that of the wholly electronic spy-in-the-sky satellite.