Press Clipping - Soviet Rejection to Interview Powers
This AP report from Moscow describes how Soviet Premier Krushchev rejected the Norway ambassador's request to interview Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the downed U-2 spy plane.
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K-NORWAY
MOSCOW (AP) PREMIER KHRUSHCHEV HAS REJECTED A REQUEST FROM NORWAY'S
AMBASSADOR TO SPEAK TO THE PILOT OF THE U.S. PLANE SHOT DOWN OVER SOVIET
TERRITORY. THE RUSSIANS SAY THE PILOT PLANNED TO LAND IN NORWAY.
AFTER KKRUSHCHEV SPOKE LAST NIGHT AMBASSADOR OSCAR GUNDERSEN SOUGH
TT INTERVIE
AFTER KHRUSHCHEV SPOKE LAST NIGHT AMBASSADOR OSCAR GUNDERSEN SOUGHT
TO INTERVIEW THE PILOT, FRANCIS G. POWERS.
DIPLOMAT TOLD THE SOVIET CHIEF.
"I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN PUTTING SOME QUESTIONS TO THE PILOT," THE
"THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLEN KHRUSHCHEV REPLIED QUICKLY "WE WILL
NOT LET HIM BE INFLUENCED BY ANY OUTSIDE POWER."
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