'The aircraft spiralled downwards, tail first': The CIA spy shot down over Russia in 1960
- Posted on August 17, 2025
- By BBC News
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'The aircraft spiralled downwards, tail first': The CIA spy shot down over Russia in 1960
On 19 August 1960, a Moscow court handed a US airman, Francis Gary Powers, a 10-year sentence. The BBC reported on what became a Cold War diplomatic disaster.
