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    "title": "Soviet Overflights of Free World Areas",
    "description": "This background paper summarized known overflights of \"Free World\" areas by Soviet aircraft.  The nations affected were Iran, Japan, Pakistan, and Turkey.",
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    "subtitle": "Meeting of Chiefs of State and Heads of Government, Paris, May 1960",
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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nMEETING OF CHIEFS OF STATE AND\nHEADS OF GOVERNMENT,\nParis, May 1960\nBackground Paper\nSOVIET OVERFLIGHTS OF FREE WORLD AREAS\nSummary\nDespite press speculation to the contrary there is\nno evidence of Soviet overflights of the North American\ncontinent. There are, however, indications that other\nFree World areas have been subjected to such Soviet over-\nflights. (SECRET)\nTHE Deight D\nLIMITED\n(BEGIN SECRET)\nBy NORAD evaluation, there is no basis for any state~\nment that any Soviet aircraft has intruded over the North\nAmerican continent except in cases where prior arrangements\nhave been made with appropriate governmental authorities.\n(END SECRET)\n(BEGIN UNCLASSIFIED)\nThere have been the following reports published\nregarding overflights of other areas of the world:\nIran: On March 15, 1959, the Iranian Government\nprotested to the USSR that during the period November 27,\n1958 to February 26, 1959 Soviet aircraft had violated\nIranian airspace on several occasions. The Soviet Union\nrejected the protest as unfounded.\nJapan: Japanese Defense Agency sources on May 3,\n1960, as quoted in the influential daily Yomiuri, stated\nthat jet flights from Russian areas north of Hokkaido had\nbeen regularized. According to the report, Soviet jets\nbegan flying over the Japan Sea on reconnaissance missions\noff the coast of northern Japan and the Tokyo area in early\nDECLASSIFIED\nSECRET\nAuthority State Dept. Subject Guidelines\nHb\nNLE 1/29/98 Date\nThis document consists of\n2\nBy\nNumber 55\nof\n75\npages.\ncopies, Series A\nSECRET\n- 2 -\n1959. Defense Agency sources said weeks of radar observation\nhave confirmed the fact that high-altitude flights of two or\nthree large jet bombers from areas north of Hokkaido to the\nTokyo Bay area had been made twice a week since early in\n1960. The Defense Agency first learned of these high-\naltitude flights early in 1959 when the flights consisted\nof single planes and seldom came further south than the\nSendai area. Agency sources added that the recent flights\nof jet bombers were flying deliberately nearer to, but\ncarefully outside of, Japan's territorial air.\nPakistan: According to a Reuter's report, President\nAyub told a London Daily Mail reporter in November 1959,\nthat Soviets and Chinese had made some overflights over\nPakistan to \"pinpoint\" US bases there. (END UNCLASSIFIED)\n(BEGIN SECRET)\nTurkey: In September 1958 Foreign Minister Zorlu\nacknowledged to our Charge in Ankara that Soviet aircraft\noften invade Turkish air space. Our Charge commented that\nhe thought we could expect no support from the Turks on\nviolation of Turkish air space.\nBuight\nLibrary The\nNOTE: Preliminary reports from USAFE and PACAF indicate\nno record of penetrations in Europe or in the Far\nEast other than occasional Soviet overflights of\nnorthern Hokkaido, generally evaluated as due to\nnavigational error. (END SECRET)\nSECRET"
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