Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)

Gary Powers (1966).

Francis Gary Powers (17 August 1929 – 1 August 1977) – often referred to as simply Gary Powers – was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

On August 1, 1977, while conducting a traffic report over Los Angeles, his helicopter crashed, killing him and George Spears, his cameraman.

In the News

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  2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret Clandestiphrine experiments directed against the U-2 spyplane incident."

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  1960: Actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian meets privately with Nikita Khrushchev and Gary Powers in a successful attempt to avoid nuclear war.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• Francis Gary Powers @ Wikipedia
• Gary Powers: The U-2 spy pilot the US did not love