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Office of Consumer Affairs
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Caroline Affair
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Iran-contra affair
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Charles Eustis Bohlen
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Omar Nelson Bradley
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Henry Laurens Dawes
Henry Laurens Dawes 1816-1903, U.S. Senator (1875-93), b. Cummington, Mass. He was U.S. district attorney for W Massachusetts (1853-57) and a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1857-75). He performed his most important service as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs an... Read more
Terry Waite
Terry Waite (Terence Waite), 1939-, British church official. An adviser to Robert Runcie , the Archbishop of Canterbury, he successfully negotiated the release of British hostages in Iran (1981) and Libya (1985). His later efforts to free U.S. hostages in Beirut were unsuccessful and were compromi... Read more
Walt Whitman Rostow
Walt Whitman Rostow 1916-2003, U.S. economist and government official, brother of Eugene Rostow , b. New York City. A Yale Ph.D. (1940) and Rhodes scholar, he served (1942-45) with the covert Office of Strategic Services during World War II and later was (1950-61) a professor of economic history a... Read more

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U-2 Spy Plane Incident
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History U-2 SPY PLANE INCIDENT On May 1, 1960, an American high-altitude U-2 spy plane departed from Pakistan on a flight that was supposed...relations with U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower. Aware that U-2 spy flights constituted a grave violation of Soviet sovereignty...Burlatsky and Georgy ... Read more
DCI (Director of the Central Intelligence Agency)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...Casey, a key figure in the Iran-Contra affair. The list of DCIs also includes a man who...building both the Berlin Tunnel and the U-2 spy plane, and undertaking covert operations...disasters, most notably the shootdown of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "U-2 Affair"

Paris Conferences
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...its opening when an American reconnaissance aircraft (the U-2) was shot down over the Soviet Union. When President Dwight...Kissinger, then the special adviser for national security affairs to President Richard M. Nixon, began secret meetings at Paris...Beschloss, Michael R. MAYDAY: Eisenhower, ... Read more
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...extended by the SEATO Pact of 1954. Keenly interested in foreign affairs throughout his Presidency, he was embarrassed in May 1960, when he publicly denied that a US high-altitude reconnaissance U-2 plane was shot down over Soviet territory. The Soviets proved... Read more

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Teledyne Ryan deal a bonanza. (Teledyne Ryan Electronics awarded contract to build next-generation spy planes)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 5/29/1995; ; 519 words ; ...to replace the aging fleet of U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird craft. The...said Howard Ruggles, military affairs director for the Greater San...much slower than the SR-71 and U-2, allows it to reconnoiter an...control station. Data from the U-2 and SR-71 can't be retrieved...Another ... Read more
Air Force Print News (Sept. 18, 2007): Robins Breakout program benefits Air Force, local businesses.(Acquisition & Logistics Excellence)
Magazine article from: Defense AT & L; 1/1/2008; ; 377 words ; ...The 560th Aircraft Sustainment Group, which maintains the U-2 program, has been using the Breakout program since 1985, and...and using local vendors to produce and repair spare parts for U-2 ground support equipment, spends between $1.5 million and...days a week, to fulfill the needs of the ... Read more
Aviation pioneers once flocked to L.A.'s clear skies. (includes related article on post-World War II aviation industry)(Special Report: What's Left of L.A. Aerospace?)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 7/28/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Angeles played host to the nation's first air show, a 10-day affair held on a dusty expanse in Dominguez Hills. Aviators, engineers...Burbank, founded by Clarence Kelly Johnson in 1943, produced U-2 and SR-71 spy-planes. It put this area on map as far as the nuclear... Read more
Major General Ted M. McFarland.(United States Air Force)(Biography)
Newspaper article from: U.S. Air Force Military Biographies; 1/1/2004; 700+ words ; ...Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, Office of the Undersecretary of the Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. International affairs is responsible for formulating and integrating U.S. Air Force policy with regards to politico-military ... Read more
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Parameters; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...F. Kennedy's bedroom some photographs, taken by high-flying U-2 spy planes, that showed Soviet troops engaged in setting up...because Soviet surface-to-air missiles had shot down an American U-2 plane and killed its pilot, bloodshed that Khrushchev feared...want. Unfortunately, after giving us an ... Read more
Pacific Air Forces.(ORGANIZATIONS)(Table)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Airman; 2/1/2008; 227 words ; ...D) * 51st Fighter Wing, Osan AB, South Korea (A/OA-10A, F-16C/D, HH-3G, U-2) 11th Air Force, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska * 3rd Wing, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska...Andersen AFB, Guam (rotational aircraft) Source: Pacific Air Force public affairs office Read more
The shady status of the spy.(Law)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...intelligence collection enjoyed a moment in the sun with the case of Francis Gary Powers, known as the U-2 affair . Powers was shot down in a high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance plane on May 1, 1960, and captured deep inside Soviet territory. He was sentenced... Read more
Lieutenant General Edgar S. Harris Jr.(United States Air Force)(Biography)
Newspaper article from: U.S. Air Force Military Biographies; 1/1/2004; 617 words ; ...Norfolk, Va. He received a master's degree in international affairs from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in...General Harris received a master's degree in international affairs from The George Washington University while attending the Naval...Division where he assumed responsibility for ... Read more
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parameters; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the spirit of Geneva, the Suez crisis, the Iraq crisis of 1958, the recurrent German crises related to Berlin, Laos, the U-2 affair, Cuba until the 1962 missile crisis, and a number of disarmament issues following that crisis. The authors make a convincing... Read more
The Secret World of American Communism.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/12/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...S. was beginning to dominate the headlines. From the Amerasia affair to the Hiss case to Judith Coplon to the Rosenbergs, the question...Abel (arrested by the FBI in 1957, Abel was swapped for downed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1961) posed no special threat to... Read more