FROM THE BOOKSHELF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010049-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2014
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: June 6, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/08 : CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010049-4 STAT
JUN 6 1962-
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Risks and Survivors y Courtney Sheldon
their edticition. If soinething dId.,liet!.tt. ?
The Little Tel Deg. by William L. White.
New York:. Z. P. Dutton & Co. 304 pp. $5.75.
The II-2 Affair. by David Wise and Thomas
? B.. Ross. New York: Random House. 249
pp- $4.95.
As 'The Little Toy Dog' tells the story of
the two captured RB-47 flyers, fellow Ameri-
cans can find much to praise in the behavior
of the two imprisoned military men.
John McKone and Bruce Olmstead were
the sole survivors of a United States military
plans on an "electromagnetic research" mis-
sion just outside Soviet territorial waters.
They were shot down by a Soviet. lighter
pilot.
moth countries conduct this risky type of
border Vital. attensistinS through electronic
instruments to ferret out communication and
, defense secrets of the other. Prior to the
shooting down of the RB-47, 75 Americans
had been killed in air incidents near Soviet
sea borders.
At first the Soviet interrogators of the two
flyers were apparently convinced the RB-47
flight in 1940, which followed the downing
of the U-2 over the Soviet Union, was hived-.
int Soviet air Once. '
But atter Captains MeXose and Olm-
stead doggedly stuck to their denials that
they ware trespassing or intended to. the
Soviets maned to become grudgingly eon-
vineed after omen months of their error.
Premier Khruehchey suddenly released the
two men attar being assured the U.S.
wouldn't 3nake too touch propaganda capital
over the Soviet change of heart.
A A A
The treatment of the two jailed men, as
told to Mr. White was neither of the torture
rack or amerhering-with-sweetness type. The
men my they told nothing of consequence
then they either neves heard if it, eeldidall
believe It."
They were persistent. They counted on:
their prisoners finally booming so defeatist:
that they would agree to sign false state- .
mints In the hope of lenient,. The tricks the
Soviets used were many. hut the two elfere
.proved more wary than weer'.
The publishers objected to 1b41 til* of the
book, but finally gave wsy to the wishes cl
Mr. White and the two flyers: The "mile
toy dog" was a rubber dog to the flying suit
of Maj. Willard Falai. thepilot ot Meese
The dog was either lost at sea or kept,bylitt
who was owe of tour ow the
Soviets when they returned the ether effects ,
of !Alai.% to American autberitter.
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U4 ARO is somewhat more an-
. and ? the authors were
even more handicapped than Mr: White in
obtaining Information from official *purees
But the book has a breadth which asyone
trying to get to the bottom of the 1.1-2 episode
will find very helpful.
By contrast with the RS-47 flight, the 1.I-2
expedition was illegal under existtnL inter-
national standards. The behavior of Fpnets
Gary Powers, the decision to send the U-2
over the Soviet Union just Wore the Paris
summit meeting, as well.e President ?Itlaws.
bower's frank adralesies ? it the esploialge
crposo:ce of the U-2 flight are still questioned
Mr. Wier and Mr. floss and their asseunt
on a critical notal"Whes Powers was_ ,
as fact the w -treed
most of the= uogoestisolagly soospled
version of what
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