THE U-2 AFFAIR POWERS, 27-MISSION VETERAN, BEGINS FATEFUL FLIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010054-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2014
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: June 1, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/28: CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010054-8
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THE 04 AFFAIR
Powers, 27-Mission Veteran
Begins Fateful Flight
� By PArm MSC and Tr1404Ati 71. laOSS
Be was thirty yce.re 0.1 tald he had flown more than
EN hours in the U-2. He lied completed 2:1 missions in
it since rephrting to Ur., Middle Vat four -t.ara -before.
Fach had been a grue..11v7 and lonely ttka along tot edgPs
Cf (par:e. But the vms:. ride ler ani U-2 pilot vas the
silent, flight over the E,,,iviet
Uhl
QT.
Francis Ciary17crers was
firing there that day ter the
Central Intelligent!! Agency.
On his hip eitt3 tel.
22-cal1ber acthiauteteatte
In his loghocie were the
notations: 1 May re. Cetle
Number 4104 011411
Ciayed one-hall herr.
Arade.11 FM. Itassie.s "Caos.yerat"
Thisk t$!s.- Fast- 0 14 erkles
mimed hen the beek. THE
U4 AFFAIR, Whitt tells the story
bellied the irTocelt erptesive etplaswegt
caw* 0 the .2Lti1t ceANty. COY-
'Alit 1962, by Dila Wti. otwa
TloiL eet Fo5113ked Ift New �. �
Yoh by Iteedaat Houle, Ise. � '
OUT (8Ifi San. lek41 time),
On hit falip, a red and bine he traced et
flight &can :Peshawar, takistan, to Bode, narrn. It would
tale Wirt offer the &vial rtien, pe.3t Valinahati,
Aral5t, Eveedlevsk, IfIrov, Archangel, and
ItturularA.
. The pleat wan betaled stra4itt� for d'yura Tars, the
Cola CA)4, Cat-Wra. 0011 TraRt to the east of the Aral
Eta. Ito 7:1Vra TIM and Karrrtlik Yet', mother test center
cutc.evrt attanurirad- were MI Intatontintntal hal'
altesIhat American lialsillge= had located in
the nii,Ation.
, Bug, co A 3 0, a U-2 had spotlaid traces ei disturbing
di:T,lit ., alet4 the raate Fowetti kr)ls t- feAtav- that day.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/28 : CIA-RDP74-00297R0016onninnsa_R