Written and Oral Communications Between the US, USSR, and Other Governments in Connection With the U-2 Incident
This paper outlines the communications between the U.S., the USSR, and other governments in chronological order organized by country.
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SECRES / NOF ORN
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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