SPY PLANE STORY PLACED IN PERSPECTIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010065-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2014
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: May 1, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/28 : CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010065-6 STAT
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pvereonfidenee and the U2 Aiiair
Spy ?lane Storv 11;11 need in Peres
"The 132 f f al r." By
David Wise and Tbomen
B. Rot t. 12.7_?ndorn Ilonse?
New I Gee, ei.9a.
In the tr. o yearn :Ince the
1.12 story broke. it has pro-
duced dozens of front-page
headlines. .
. First came the eaptuie
Gary Francis Powc-rs, fol-
lowed in quick succ-:.1.1c,n by
Khrushehev's torpk-dniee of
the Pons summit conference
and the tr!,_I of Poe:tr.; in
Moscow. Then, curly this
year. Powers was treed from
a Soviet prion as the result
of a arry swap and brought
back to the United States
where he related his versioh
of his c..pture to the s?
faction of the Ccntral
'teener and cor.gres-
Mona] committeemen.
Yet many queetione tscro
left unanswered, pertly be-
muse the story wr...s told
on a da3,-by-duy Is and
partly be:auto vonte,
portant fact-) e3ould not be
released.
Das id Wise and Thomas
B. Ross provid.! the nn- era
to a number of the,. quc i-
tions. Unfortunately. they de
not alway3 enc. t'i -turce
and, as a censequenze, the
ma rt 1,1trly te be enme-
what r.k.pticat.
Fcr exarr;le. the authors
report !let Pr.beident Eitere
hewer wa.; ?vocried about
the t'2 oat flights. In Cieir
ve rci "H. had often ar::ed
the CIA: Whet !ripper n if
ycu're caueht? Every time
he (IA tn, th: CIA r:wend-
ed: It tri(n't. happened 3 et."
The CIA also rationalized
ti-t, in the event a 112 werc
shot down, the Rut slam
would keep silent rather
than admit their country
was wide open to aerial
esplona?;e.
HOWEVER, the CIA was
rtdy for any such misad-
vent ur Theorc tically, a II
that nee.kel to be done was
take a prepi-ekaged "cover"
story out of the files, make
the necessary revisions and
call in the reporters.
But beginning May I. 1950,
almost everyt*,ing seemed to
go wrong. with Nikita ;Chat-
shchev being most coopera-
tive. He dcalt out his infor-
mation piecemeal, waited for
the United States to take
the bait. 11-,en struck his
hook. In the end the U.S.
w cae,Tht in a I.e and
14:t13 I rd te r i thr truth
ghoul Powers and h,1
frz% 31;o bene-
fited 1.-om 3 $ !.t I e s of
.......1????????61?111
Amerie.:r. ern:sea. In one in-
etant-e, Ur_coln White, State
Depe.,rtret at epoites.nan, was
given a statemeht to read
at a pre.:s confer.mce. But
While was net on the "in-
side" rrd didn't krow the
v.r_e a spy plane.
ate r, the Nation:A Aero-
nautie. and Space Admiris-
tratior ,ied. according to
Wu/. Lnd Ree 'one of the
most L.-nu st..iemcnts cf
the cild :jr It had not
been ci -'red with ill: State
Del. I trnt rt, the CIA or the
1A'hiie house I' had not
b-rn fAvn by fierter (sevrt,
tiny of late . th(rd
of the CAt or the Prr.,.1-
dent.'
-rht 1'2 Affair" in inter-
/edify.; end enligittening. It
would be a much more
salu.e..ble book If there
were documentation end
an the( x.
The authorn tx-llyve th tt
,c. CIA "Ken III'? hroome4
to t -st propo-Long outAldn
Cat: normal checks and hal.
alus of the governmi nt."
Li the l'2 affair, how.?tr,
1nte crrot,, resuItrd in
1-..- t
derv: ?;rt: leg cut of a hi 'i.
?i.e tt er,,e of o',
fit, a' a.
?Thecalvire Long
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/28: CIA-RDP74-0029001600010065-6