'THE U-2 AFFAIR'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010063-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2014
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: May 23, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/28 : CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010063-8 STAT
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:"TRE V.2 AFFAIR: Du David
Wise and 'Fito-nIoe- B. Rots.
-Plideographil.- Render!,
Route. 29. pates. -US$. "
.'By john K. 'Hutchens
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� THERE Were � ,those
, ,31-�coutitlees about 77 it
,lin" the press-land then, When
the uproar suhaided a little,
al' couple ,of. -Washington
correspondents
went tagging � still farther:
All on,. their own � Attd
with-
out an official help from -�any
rieency,; Or anybody, they :dug
,Into the story of Flatlets Gary
Poesers. and , his : high Ming
, "Machine, the'.luckless . V.2
that fell out 'of the sky over
4 Russiar ehd� shook ,the world -
,7-On May .1 18_60. They dug:for
i.,yeet , , � � �
�;2' ;David ' Wise "of the New
Yosttfertild .,Tribune ,end
Themes a MO of The Chi-
, 74 ;40 Sun,Times, are good
.aitd,kneirletigeible reverters,.
STAT
�, elipertenced in the ways of,
, � David . Ise
life In Mashingt,on and 2e1Se- ?� , : "7 T
'7 Where: But even the must' six months before by Clarence
,',4 have been 'steadily -,surprised L. (Ken) Johnson, ,Lock- ,
as they gathered the stuff of heed% Chief- designer. But the
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this booli,-.-., imPtiszioie� as it � drarmaticelir :revealing. and'
Mt. the Il'2 Aff1r turned �� intenstirdistbrhirit.-litert 0f r'
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out to 'be; even
Mess than it had '
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be in the first
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e of a the hoer 'the nomidiete
ppeare Prelude . to and its
' faiitaitle aferMAUL
, ,P.ailler' � over
anssia hiving :7beikt'ad fres
Yr UM the wori. quail and easy alt,Ito :become
mut, sitsir brisk- mo *Ompilth. � ,i0,otters
' henslyb' ""7 rer-9,rt .kggest"' giVen le �
;either ra- one oreat,miding tight oentielogic
-tAlellt6Var 4-��7'''ALWille tioriV Alien 'W. 1,`, CIA -
were. tik a, Oitat er !.11,tOen direttor; litt bided. as
the .tg tot :-.,befoi.e, much.1;;:cre the 1)`fesiderit
#.07.dis toand his secretary fit State tl
7 t he B
aware �that this U-2' t 071.7
� -della ent only �sixteen dayS bate� the,
ho ask Ceri- toltedtded- Suaireit
tttai !� iluSt'tlea -4/4411e7 Paricylva4 takir* igeeel
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n Ile ,,rittv wore not. 4
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da *no on 8dal,,-)66,7,
a', in. in Washington,'
yet" ,that"., the real ',confusion 'be-
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