English subtitles for clip: File:1960-05-09 Spy Story of the Year.ogg

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In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev is shown as he told the Soviet Presidium that pilot Gary

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Powers of the downed American reconnaissance plane was alive, and that Russia had seen

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spy photographs made 1,400 miles inside Soviet borders.

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The plane was brought down on May Day, less than two weeks before the summit talks, and

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Mr. K was quick to play on the incident for propaganda advantage.

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Out in the open came the story of the most sensational intelligence operations yet revealed.

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America officially admits extensive flights over and around Russia by unarmed planes during,

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the last five years.

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State Department spokesman Lincoln White gives the reasons for the flights.

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But given the state of the world today, intelligence collection activities are practiced by our

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countries, and post-war history certainly reveals that the Soviet Union has not been

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lagging behind in this field.