50 Years ago today there was a spy swap between the USSR and The United States that would become a key point in the war. Gary Powers, the man who was shot down in a U-2 spy plane May 1st 1960 while taking pictures of Soviet Nuclear Facilities and uranium enrichment sites across siberia. He was traded for a man named Rudolph Abel, a Soviet Spy who sent back many secrets to the USSR about missiles and nuclear programs. Gary Powers was cold shouldered by many people for not taking the poison pill he was equipped with incase of being caught. He eventually quit the airforce and began to fly helicopters for a california news station until he was 47, he died when the helicopter crashed.
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