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ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
April 22, 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR BRIG. GEN. A. J. GOODPASTER
THE WHITE HOUSE
SUBJECT: Soviet Note on Overflights
Herewith a copy of the official translation of
the Soviet note on overflights delivered April 21.
fisher Home Fisher Howe
The Dwlght of
Director
Executive Secretariat
Enclosure:
Copy of Soviet Note on
Overflights, April 21, 1958.
LS No. 10662
No.
9
The Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
presents its compliments to the Department of State of the
United States of America and, referring to the Aide Memoire
of the Department of State dated March 31, 1958 and contain-
ing a reply of the Government of the United States of America
to the Aide Memoire of the Soviet Government dated March 5
concerning a violation of the Soviet state border in the Far
a
East by an American military jet aircraft, has the honor to
BUL
L
communicate the following:
In the reply Aide Memoire of the Department of State an
attempt is made to deny the fact of an American military air-
craft having violated the Soviet border.
As has already been communicated, the Soviet Government
has at its disposal carefully verified data on this violation,
the reliability of which leaves no room for doubt. According
to these data, on March 2, 1958, at 4:05 a.m. Moscow time, an
American military reconnaissance aircraft of the Lockheed U-2
type, having appeared from the direction of the Sea of Japan,
violated the state border of the Soviet Union in the area of
the settlement Velikaya Kema, 32 kilometers south of that
settlement. Then the violating aircraft penetrated the air-
space of the USSR and, after remaining over its territory for
a considerable period of time, passed beyond the limits of
the Soviet
Department of State,
United States of America,
Washington, D.C.
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the Soviet territory 45 kilometers south of the Olga Bay at
8:11 a.m.
In the light of the established facts the reply of the
Government of the United States of America can in no way be
recognized as satisfactory. Naturally, the question arises
as to how to explain such a reply of the American Government:
whether it was misled dèliberately by its military representa-
tives in the Far East or whether it considered it possible to
protect such persons subordinate to it, who, without regard to
the possible consequences, sanction violation of Soviet borders,
thus creating a threat of international complications.
i
Dwight
Such a reply of the Government of the United States of
The
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America to the communication of the Soviet Government cannot
fail to cause serious concern, the more so since the new case
of violation of Soviet airspace took place after warnings on
the part of the Government of the USSR to the effect that
American authorities should take the necessary steps to pre-
vent such violations.
In connection with the foregoing the Soviet Government
expects that the Government of the United States of America
will undertake further investigation of this act of violation
of the airspace of the USSR by an American military aircraft
and will punish severely those guilty of this violation.
The Soviet
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The Soviet Government also expects that the Government
of the United States of America will take the necessary steps
to prevent violations of Soviet airspace by American aircraft
Wetn,
in the future and states that in the event of new violations
full responsibility for their consequences will rest with
the Government of the United States.
10 Divid Library 841
Washington, D.C.
April 21, 1958
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