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Refuse to confirm or deny could have helped the US in 1960: An American U2 "weather research" plane is shot down over the USSR. The US strongly denied that th
by rangibaby 8y ago
Refuse to confirm or deny could have helped the US in 1960:
An American U2 "weather research" plane is shot down over the USSR.
The US strongly denied that the U2 was a spy plane and produced "weather research" U2s in NASA livery and a story about how the pilot's oxygen equipment malfunctioned.
...the USSR had failed to mention that the U2 pilot (Gary Powers) was alive and well, and that the definitely-a-spy-plane was recovered mostly intact. Oops!