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Francis Gary Powers
1929–1977
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- aircraft pilot
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 â August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Vladimir Central PrisonDates unknown
Biography
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 â August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union. Powers survived, but was captured and sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison for espionage. He served 21 months of his sentence before being released in a prisoner swap in 1962. After returning to the US, he worked at Lockheed as a test pilot for the U-2, and later as a helicopter pilot for Los Angeles news station KNBC. He died in 1977, when the KNBC helicopter he was flying crashed.
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