The CIA spy shot down over Russia in 1960 | BBC Global

On 19 August 1960, 65 years ago , a court in Moscow handed a US pilot, Francis Gary Powers, a 10-year sentence after he was apprehended by Soviet security forces.

The BBC reported on what became a Cold War diplomatic disaster.

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