Monte Reel, “A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA’s Secret War”

Monte Reel presents a narrative of the Cold War-era spy operation that transformed the CIA. In 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA concocted a story for President Eisenhower to deliver. Against all odds, pilot Francis Gary Powers emerged and was seized by the KGB. He confessed to espionage charges, revealing that Eisenhower had lied to the American people—and to the Soviet Premier. In this true-life thriller, Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War.

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