U2 Incident, 1960 STUDY PLAY Where was a summit meeting arranged to be held to work through tensions? U2 Spy Plane Incident At the height of the cold war, as critics of the Eisenhower administration complained about the growing "missile gap," the United States secretly gathered data on Soviet missile capabilities through photographs obtained from U2 reconnaissance plane overflights of the Soviet Union In May 1960, plans were finalized for aFrancis Gary Powers Francis Gary Powers ( – )—often referred to as simply Gary Powers—was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the
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