FEARFUL LESSON OF U-2

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010056-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2014
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: May 28, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Fearful.
Lesson'
Of 11-2'41'
Reviewed by
JOHN K. HUTI;HENS
, 211R U-2 AFFAIR. ItyDaviti t a CIA meeting .1 .ch
; Woe and Thomas B. Ross. .4 Mr. Qaraning was the only ?
Photographs. Random ' State Department man ixesest.
House. 269 pages. 105. a standing "covet" 'tory ?
miming weather reeler& plane
THERE WERE all those touched up and wit to
countless words abnOt ft hi the Istanbul.' No ore paid much
attention to it when It drifted
back into the American press.
, prise ? and then. When the up-
roar subsided 'a little a couple
of Wastitngton new*per cot-
respondents Fent digging still
,tarther. AU on the;r own and
Without any official help from
any egrneY or sstftiodY. ifteY
dug into the story; of Praneis
Cary Powers and his high fly-
h= machine, the raieldess U-2
which fell out of tle sky over
ON MAY a Ithrustichev drop-
ped his bomb, Cr part of it: an
American plane. dawn on Rus-
sian soil. The NatWest' Smutty
Council decided to stay nip
the Cover story..Athoggh the
NSC had also decided that the
State DepatitneSS wSs to do the
' talking, the Mary wide aft its
new, embellished, ation40-Seen-
paced untruths wan gives out
Russia and shook the world ", by the National Amnesties
on May 1, M. They dug for a and Space Administration, with-
year. mit do ace, leen Stais. CIA
or White Houses Who gets the
David Wise of the New York blame for this remains a quell-
Herald 'Tribune arid Thome B.
Russ of the Went") sen:rinwe Then Khreelichev &nipped the
ere gond and knowledgeable n.st ut his bomb powers.
"31"s' etcP"ierleed In the survhed ? and the blunders
wuys of life in Wiahhigteet ani multiplied. The cover stery was
elmeeliere. renewed, then abeeelontel. Mr.
Ittlal OF .Wlse's end -Rove CbeithrWer ?Wan/ said
brwr orttettai relates to tuo not to have nathoriaed the
birth of the U-2 in October, Dirtzt, but then he Perselislie
me, when the men tight ,Aus aesurned responsibility. A slate-
given 10 bio phut merit by Mr. Ilerter inni/ted ter
brought to fir 1,3=s before did it?) that the flights Would
by Chump L. fiCellyi John- continue.
, 3023, LOckt3ecd's chid designer. It u.s a fearful llama in
merconfitionee, executive theta.
But it was 021 My in Wash- , 1?.4earfal
Ington, that the ireal contusion ais'F.,t1.41.441,
began, with a phone call to '1tca "(r) be. end' Vivi, vaiii:.
It Pewn.
Hugh S. Cumming Jr., chief of ; .
Intelligence and research of the
State Department! that Powers
and his U-2 wine overdue at !
their terminal point In Norway.
Mr. Herter was in Istanbul. Mr.;
Dullu in New York. Mx. El- :`
e.n.tpwer at Quilp David.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/28: CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010056-6