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Moscow, Soviet Union. American pilot Francis Gary Powers (R) attends an open session of the Military Board of the USSR Supreme Court on August 19, 1960 in the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions. As US Central Intelligence Agency officer, Powers was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. On May 1, 1960 his U-2 spy plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile near Sverdlovsk, Powers himself arrested after landing. (Photo by TASS/AP Photo)
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