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The decade of the 1960's contained severe and potentially catastrophic events during the ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The opening note to the orchestra of this tense period was the surface to air missile that shot down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane. Arguably the 1960s were a continuation of espionage hostilities from earlier decades between Russia and the United States. However it was with the U-2 incident, as well as the following crises in Berlin and Cuba that these hostilities became part of the public consciousness and drew the two aggressor nations to the brink of all out warfare.

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