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Written and Oral Communications Between the US, USSR, and Other Governments in Connection With the U-2 Incident

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This paper outlines the communications between the U.S., the USSR, and other governments in chronological order organized by country.

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This doqument consists of 65 parro No. 8 of 50 Conies, series B SECRES / NOF ORN RSB MM-0 203 Duight August 12, 1960 WRITTEN AND ORAL COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE US, USSR, AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE U-2 INCIDENT On May 3, 1960 the US Air Force in Turkey reported that a U-2 weather plane from the US air base at Adana, Turkey, was missing. Addressing the Supreme Soviet on May 5, Khrushchev asserted that an American plane had been shot down over the USSR, but gave no details of the locale, circumstances, or fate of the pilot. In Washington, on the same day, a brief State Department press release reported that a weather plane belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was missing. NASA on May 5 also issued a press release, a lengthy announcement giving the route of the "weather plane" in Turkey and stating that the pilot had reported oxygen difficulties. On May 6 a US note to the USSR asked for information on the plane and its pilot. This note was the first of a series of official communications, both written and oral, exchanged between the US, the USSR, and other govern- ments in connection with the U-2 incident. This paper presents, in chronological order, the texts of all such communications. Press releases and other unilateral state- - ments are not generally included unless of particular significance. For convenient reference, this paper is also broken down on a country-by-country basis. An unclassified addendum presents the texts of Department of State press and radio briefings relating to this subject. DECLASSIFIED SECRET/NOFORN Authority NLE 2006-135#23 By. MMK NLDDE Date 12/22/10

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