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On display in Moscow, the wreckage of pilot Francis Powers' U2 reconnaissance plane for

Muscovites and foreign newsmen to see.

As the Soviet launches its most belligerent and American propaganda barrage in recent years.

On May 1, 1960, a CIA U2 spy plane dispatched to take clandestine photos of Soviet missile

sites was shot down while flying over the Ural Mountains.

The plane's pilot, Francis Gary Powers, ejected and parachuted to safety, only to be

immediately captured by the KGB.

For Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, it was a PR bananza, fresh proof that American imperialists

would stop at nothing to spy on his country.

Khrushchev himself at the Moscow press conference, loosed a furious tirey, charging America with

deliberate aggression, and threatening to attack any allied bases from which U2 jets flew

over Russia.

The U2 spy incident triggered a cold war crisis.

Khrushchev pulled out of a planned summit in Paris with American president Dwight Eisenhower.

But the U.S. was not without its means to fire back in the global PR wars.

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