Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-109-012
This folder contains a summary of international news media reaction to the release of Soviet Colonel Rudolph Abel and Americans Francis Gary Powers and Frederic L. Pryor from custody as a result of the 1960 U-2 incident, during which an American U-2 Central Intelligence Agency aircraft was shot down over the Soviet Union, prompting a deterioration in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.