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The U-2 incident undermined a growing spirit of diplomacy and detente between the United States and Soviet Union, and set the stage for the intensities of the 1960s (the Berlin Crisis and Cuban Missile Crisis being among them). It also provided the Soviets with our technology; the U-2 spy plane was the premier espionage aircraft in the world.