AFTER DESCRIBING WHAT THEY CALL THE ATTEMPT TO MAKE U2 PILOT POWERS A SCAPEGOAT, DAVID WISE AND THOMAS ROSS, "THE U2 AFFAIR," (RANDOM HOUSE, $4.95) GO ON TO SAY: "WHEN HE RETURNED, THE GOVERNMENT LED THE EFFORT TO BANISH THE UNPLEASANT MEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010062-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2014
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: May 24, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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('After describing what thly
call the attempt to make U2
Pilot Powers a scapegoat,
David Wise an Thomas Ross,
in "THE U2 AFFAIR," (Ran-
dom House, $4.95) go on to
say: "When he returned, the
gcwerrunent led the effort to
banish the unpleasant mem-
ory of the U2 affair� by
.casting him in the role of a
hero. The truth is he was
neither. He was an ordinary
man sent out to do an extra-
ordinary .nission."
One :in agree with the
sununr.tiin of Powers as a
person, but there seems to
have ktirn no 'effort to place
POWeid in the role of either
villtin or hero. The authors
go oa to question the right
of the CIA to ..,"engage in
multifarious activities" out-
rieih the gathering of ialorma-
ten. It is a complaint with
whit h it is difficult to agree.
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i%t t.a f.rst time what was
"t id at the abortive summit
rtactin3 which Khrushehev so
.anhIc;sly broke up after the
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