Excerpt from Malinovsky Speech on May 9

This is the Soviet Union's reply to the United States' initial statement on the U-2 spy plane incident.

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owieht UNCLASSIFIED - 12 - Kri D Annex I Document No. 2 Excerpt from Malinovsky Speech of May 9 We reply to you firmly, gentlemen American imperialists: no you will not fly over our land! We are not your Guatemala, Turkey, Pakistan or South Korea. We shot down and will shoot down any violator who dares to violate our airspace and will adopt all measures necessary for protecting the integrity of our state frontiers! We also warn the countries countenancing these evil doings, lending their territory and airfields for the flights of similar pirate planes over our country's borders -- think before it is too late. Technology is now SO perfected that it can show us without fail the airfields from which such violators are flying. We have the right to take any measures in such a case against those bases and airfields and can raze these bases, so that nothing remains of them. UNCLASSIFIED