At first President Eisenhower denied the U-2 plane's purpose (which was espionage) but then had to admit it was a spy plane when the USSR showed photos of Russian military bases taken by the plane. The pilot was imprisoned in Russia for two years, and the incident embarrassed the U.S. causing a cooling in USSR relations.
Maybe to the USSR, he was a soviet spy
If you are referring to the U2 pilot that was shot down over the USSR in 1960, that would have been Frances Gary Powers.
The USSR shot down the U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers and derailed the Eisenhower and Kruchev Arms Limitation Talks. The U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over Sverdlovsk, USSR on 1 May 1960 by a SAM-2. Powers was convicted of espionage on 17 Aug 1960 by a USSR court and sentanced to 10 years in prision. Powers was exchanged for a Soviet spy on 10 Feb 1962.
The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was the US spy organization who manipulated a number of situations internationally to secure friendly governments to the US during the Eisenhower years.
Eisenhower did not use American troops to support the revolt and NATO did not intervene when USSR crushed the revolution. One problem was that Britain and France were fighting Egypt over the Suez at this time and the US backed them.
When Eisenhower denied having such an aircraft, and the Soviets had the wreckage of the plane in their hanger. That was embarrassing!
no, but the USSR had spies in Los Alamos.
The plane was shot down by a missile on 1st may 1960,over the USSR.
the Suez Crisis pro-Western Lebanon U-2 spy plane incident
Because the U.S. sent the U-2 spy plane over Russia to...well...spy. The plane was later shot down by the soviets and the pilot was captured, they knew it was an American plane because 1. they had the pilot 2. American flags where one the plane President Eisenhower never gave an apology.
Eisenhower prevented Patton's 3rd army to advance on Berlin. Patton's tanks and troops were making unprecedented progress towards Germany. Patton urged Ike to allow him to advance to no avail. The terrible results were that the USSR did capture Berlin. If Patton succeeded then things like the Berlin Wall and the Berlin airlift crisis never would have happened.