'SPY FLIGHT' DETAILS LACKING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200350015-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: May 10, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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i strittion', Agent v''plans officer Who, said , on'
? , i , American planc-' doubt 4..d 'Preinier Ichrushchev'g, eapta
1 lwsia there can be no ade.- pi ?ho .y the plane was shot dowp.y1e,
appraisal ot the OpisodeSignifi7 ' . gpias4ni in a reCorded intervt,? II
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hce, . ? ..-.. ,; deiphia, said the incident sugge
.1flowever, ft,r intt in being-at Jeast?. ,thiitgl other than the shootirigd
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. i ruled St .1cs h .6 tharkagOO to inake it,TY,"' plane Mun'hoi, !lead pf E. NAW ,..X
ippi-iir i-1,11,:il'olits to 4lie rest of the Jinn; whO had. been a plans officer ,W1 the, ,
toi by first itenying, then admittirtgl that., CIA Jur three years and also Servejnthe
? plane was .on B1.1 . espionage infsaiorvil ()SS e tiring Wqrld War H, said this,airpletie
V.' hen it was downed and its ,pilot was :caPs,!'-was presumably ?het down frorrt a ,height
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ilea far inside . Russian territory,. The h of 60,000.1eet. But,.Munsim said, if that is
? 1.',,Isonitower .Artraintstiatinifs further ad.. true, we rriust assume that the plane
., sltion. that po one in Washington Imaal,,, .60,000 feet and it that were tha8e
award at the flight andlliatjt had not beiii, falling craft would haVci 4ig a,
determined who in Our overseaspersonneiltholerin the ground or hrive, be ,
iv.,i ,ordered the aerial rriission can Onty ' He said :the Soviets never :"
i-,.- t, Finround the whole incident with, fpune the -pfane.sufficiently tifiet,so
att an jt irrosponsirlility. Corning on the eve recover some o"f its, contents such es . he,
to the tmicnheraided -sitnitnit7 Ineetincd, graphie equipment. Munson ,,sagi
iictvicri ..Prt-siderit Eisenhower?.., and Pre- M'an ,clairn of havirfg recovetett,Veli:en
rmer Nocita.Kh.rusnche? of ItusSia, the inert-, - ment, under the conditions they desert
,.??itt 1):6 the 0',,,,-.ci of putting 'the President ' is "ir Tedible." . ? ,,
note much satetiaction to be de--
.1 'irom rue attempt ot certain congress-
, ?o to At oce the toghi on the grounds' ?
iii countries now engage in espionage
coninwn practice. True, this nation has
successltg prosecutions
?i..suit itSo, let wving in the last
pars ,but none of the cases has been on
par with tire American flight into Russia. ?
what American reaction 'would
hoon if a Russian espionage plane bad
uowned in Missouri hr KanSaril ? ?.
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a here. is also the ;visibility Of a
k" within the CIA, Munson said,
nwlsialls knew ?in advante of
Pa, ,ers' 11104, the 7outd and the time.: ,
Sti(r leaks Pave bccurrettirt 914
tico.s in the past, Munson
di.iebtedly will'oectrin thjtl
Tie .United States' revelRtip
In
necttort with the baveee
only' to constitute At indict
tion,.kno4 e th hisopee thatnulwh
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the eyes Pl! the world.