US Note to the Soviet Union - May 6
This is the American government's initial statement to the Soviet Union that the U-2 plane downed on May 1, 1960, was a NASA weather research plane.
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Annex No. 1
Document No. 1
US Note to the Soviet Union - May 6
The US Government has noted the statement of the Chairman
of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, N.S. Khrushchev, in his
speech before the Supreme Soviet on May 5 that a foreign aircraft
crossed the border of the Soviet Union on May 1 and that on orders
of the Soviet Government, this aircraft was shot down. In this
same statement it was said that investigation showed that it was
a US plane.
As already announced on May 3, a United States National
Aeronaurical Space Agency unarmed weather research plane based
at Adana, Turkey, and piloted by a civilian American has been
missing since May 1. The name of the American civilian pilot
of the missing aircraft is Francis Gary Powers, born on August
17, 1929, at Jenkins, Kentucky.
In the light of the above the US Government requests the
Soviet Government to provide it with full facts of the Soviet
investigation of this incident and to inform it of the fate of the
pilot.
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