Francis Gary Powers, Jr.

FRANCIS GARY POWERS, JR. lectures internationally and appears regularly on the History, Discovery, and A&E channels. He is the son of Gary Powers, Sr., the CIA U-2 pilot whose plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, triggering the U-2 Incident. In 2015, he consulted for Steven Spielberg’s movie Bridge of Spies, about the 1962 spy exchange between KGB spy Rudolph Abel and CIA U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, Sr. Gary is the author of Enemy Territory (2022), Letters from a Soviet Prison (2017), and Spy Pilot (2019). He holds a BA in Philosophy and Master’s Degrees in Public Administration and US History.