The U-2 is a single-seat, single-engine high-altitude/near-space reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft that provides critical imagery and signals intelligence to decision makers at all stages of conflict, including peace-keeping indications and warnings, low-intensity conflict, and large-scale hostilities.
Lockheed Corporation submitted it in 1953, it was approved in 1954, and it flew for the first time in 1955. During the Cold War, it flew over the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and Cuba.
Gary Powers was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in a CIA U-2C over the Soviet Union in 1960. (SAM). During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Major Rudolf Anderson Jr. was shot down in a U-2.
U-2s have participated in post-Cold War hostilities in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as other multinational NATO missions. In addition, the U-2 has been employed for electronic sensor research, satellite calibration, scientific study, and communications.
Therefore Option C is why Kennedy authorize U 2 planes.
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