Letters From a Soviet Prison: The Personal Journal and Private Correspondence of CIA U-2 Pilot (Francis Gary Powers/DLM) veterans It will proudly occupy a

It will proudly occupy a space on the bookshelf of any serious student of the war

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Letters From a Soviet Prison: The Personal Journal and Private Correspondence of CIA U-2 Pilot (Francis Gary Powers/DLM) veterans It will proudly occupy aMy father, Francis Gary Powers, was a CIA U 2 pilot who was shot down in the midst of the Cold War, on May 1, 1960, while flying in Soviet airspace. After his capture, he was tried for espionage and then served nearly two years in a Soviet prison until his eventual release in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States in the late 1950s. The two operatives were brought to separate sides of the