Legal Aspects of the U-2 Incident

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The U-2, a high-flying United States reconnaissance plane under pilot Francis G. Powers, permanently based in Turkey, but taking off from Pakistan territory with intent to cross Soviet territory and land in Norway, came down near Sverdlovsk, well within Soviet territory, on May 1, 1960. Such flights had been carried on for four years under general orders of the President, following refusal of the Soviet Government to accept the “open skies” proposal made by the President at the Summit Conference of 1955, and after such flights had become operational in 1956. Apparently the Soviet Government had become aware of such flights through radar tracking.

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