Tag: U-2

Podcast

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

14th October 2022
Tagged as: Castro, Cold War, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev, Missile, Nuclear, Spying, U-2, USA

A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Podcast

10th February 1962: Captured U-2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers freed in a prisoner exchange

10th February 2021
Tagged as: Cold War, Espionage, Gary Powers, Reconnaissance, Spy, Spying, U-2, United States, USA, USSR

Powers had been sentenced to 10 years’ confinement in the USSR but, amidst concerns that he might reveal any remaining secrets to the Soviet authorities, the U.S. government agreed to exchange Powers and imprisoned student Frederic Pryor in return for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel.