POWERS – GENTRY : Opertion Overflight (fülszöveg)
For the first time since his release from a Russian prison in 1962, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened behind the scenes in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history: the U-2 incident, which wrecked a Summit Conference, gave birth to the credibility gap, and inaugurated a new era in the ancient art of spying.
Francis Gary Powers' story, suppressed for eight years, begins with his recruitment by the CIA. It covers his secret training, the part he played in Operation Overflight, called "the most successful reconnaissance, espionage project in history." It gives details never before made public about his ill-fated May 1, 1960, flight over Russia, the "orange flash" that downed his U-2, and his capture by the Soviets.
Powers was interrogated by the KGB for sixty-one days, and he now reveals the important information he successfully with held from his captors. He tells how Khrushchev set the famous trap that caught the American government in a series of damning lies and forced a U.S. President to make the unprecedented admission that he had authorized espionage as "a distasteful but vital necessity."
Drawing on a diary he kept while imprisoned, Powers discloses the details of his sensational trial, and of his life inside two of Russia's most infamous prisons, Lubyanka and Vladimir. Finally he speaks of the events culminating in his dramatic exchange for Soviet spy, Rudolph Abel.
The story does not end with his release, however. In one of the most revealing sections of this remarkable book, Powers reluctantly talks about his return to the United States in 1962, when he was made a scapegoat and officially discouraged from publishing his own account of the U-2 incident.
Containing much heretofore secret information, Francis Gary Powers' narrative is not only a tremendously exciting suspense story but also a moving human document of a man who was labeled a traitor by many of his fellow countrymen, but who could well prove to have been one of America's heroes.
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