SPY STORY IN DETAIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010053-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2014
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: June 3, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/28 CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010053-9
JUN .3 1962
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Spy Story irz Beta
THI; U2 AFFAIR ? By David
etke and Thomas Ross; Ran-
t+. m House; S4 95; illustrated;
'.41 pp.
Retiewed by
? DANIEL F AHEARNE
"Francis Cary Powers had nev-
er etjected to 'become the most
r utiitizm spy of the cold war.
Be flew the U-2 as a vocation,
not as a dedication. But the work
took courage, even if the ieards
were ample. When his mission
failed, many jumped to the con-
clusion .that he was a disloyal
American. There was' an attempt
to rimhe him a scapegoat for all
that hz.ppened, including the mis-
takes of the highest officials of
the government. When he re-
turned. the government led the
effort to banish the unpleasant
memory of the U-2 affair from
the national conscience by cast-
ing him In the role of a hero.
The truth is that he was nether.
He was an ordinary man sent
out on an extraordinary miss,em.'
Thus, the authors sum up their
det;.iled. gripping, and faitual ac-
coant of the tale of the 1.3-2; an
affair which caused repercas-
si as in pro-Western and in So-
t Act governmental establishments.
It is an account of cor,fAsion
in high places; of officials in low-
cr echelons carry,ing out a pro-
gram which could, and did.' lent
to embarrassment for the Lem.,"
States. The authors state. by
May e1 1300. Intelligence. had
crnne to dominate policy in the
U-2 program: Instead of ser' 4 g
as a baais for pulicy.mi,kint
telligence-gathering had itcorhe
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votild literally, be the last
I 01 tv.cause of the summit.'"
Ive authors relate the coda-
f.ca amorg governmental ?fn.
6; Is at Washington when the So-
viet go\t rnrnent announced it had
Powers' U-2; further confusion
when the Smiet announced it had
Foy:err. The hasty issuance of the
false "cover story" from Wash-
irgion, which later was exposed
when Washirgton admitted the
truth. Excerpts of Powers' testi-
mony his Soviet trial are re-
IL'eri Powers testified, ". . . 1.
he been treated very well" and
reid he a a,' not tortured. Be also
toltficrl. according to tbe au-
thors, that be' was "profoundly
scrry" he had any part in the
FAxht.
The arrangements for Powers'
nier.re and return to the United
Slates are covered full?. 11%e
United States exchanged Rudolf
1-..anotich Abel, "the Soviet mas-
ter spy then tetg a 30-year
sentence in a Federal prison,"
far Powers. Als! neer "broke"
'mot r on. "he dented
ever;??larg, %yaki not even admit
he was a iot let Anew He
lottchife c'-'e ? I.A. offer of
sit ti.) s- yei ? to change sides."
ii'cr tPs had remarked of
/It 1 *i?h .e.had three Ahils
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am rl'urned to the So-
t ? .; Folee % remains en the
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