The American government at first claimed that Francis Gary Powers' plane was a weather plane, but what in fact was Francis Gary Powers doing in Russian airspace?
A) He was moving American military supplies over the Soviet Union on his way to supply anti-communist rebels in China
B) He mistakenly landed in Russia thinking that he was in fact landing on a NATO base in Finland
C) He was flying a commercial jet over Russian airspace on his way to Pakistan, where he was planning on rescuing American hostages in the city of Peshawar
D) He was flying a U2 spy plane as part of an espionage mission