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Comments on TRUE Magazine Version of U-2 Incident
a. Statement: "Powers left his home at Incirlik, Turkey, near Adana,
on April 27 and landed at Peshawar, Pakistan, the famous British fortress
city which guards the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan. In Peshawar he waited
for good weather. Shortly after dawn on May 1, he filed a routine flight plan
giving a course back to Incirlik, Turkey. "
Comment: The text of the Soviet indictment of Powers, published
in The New York Times of 10 August 1960, contained the following statement:
"As established by the investigations, on April 27, 1960, Powers
was brought in a transport plane of the United States Air Force from
the Incirlik Air Force Base to Pakistan the Peshawar airport.
"
b. Statement: "First indication that the Russians were back on the
attack came from an excited Russian voice: the's turning left!' Then:
'He's coming lower
Comment: No recording of any Russian voices was picked up by us.
All that we obtained were Russian radar plots of the flight from time to time.
A similar statement written subsequent to the publication of this magazine,
and in Anderson's column of 12 May (he was then substituting for Drew Pearson)
contained the following:
"The terse radio exchanges between the Russian pilots who shot
down an American spy plane over Sverdlovsk 1200 miles inside Russia
were picked up by supersensitive listening devices in Turkey, it has
now been learned.
"The last words that crackled over the radio were one pilot's
excited shout: ¹He's turning left!¹ Then silence,
DECLASSIFIED WITH DELETIONS
CIA E0-1996-00337
Agency Case
96-212-02
NLE Case
His NLE Date 11/15/99
By
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