PAPER GIVES DETAILS ON U-2 DOWNING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100130011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 5, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Paper Gives
Details on .
U-2 Downing
Tuesday In Grei Be, Ander,
today. Burial y full mili-
tary honors Is eduled ca
was accompanied by eight pho-
tos of the wreckage of the
!plane, taken "somewhere in
the western part of Cuba."
According to Revoluclon,,
the official document accom-
panying Anderson's body said'
he was "killed on invading the
national air spate In a U-2
plane in an Illegal act violat-
ing Cuban sovereignty." The
statement was attributed to
the Foreign Relations Min-
istry. -
(In Wash1ngttirs,-ft, was an?
pounced that MO . Anderson's
body was flown from Havana '
to Miami yestc ay and or-
rived-at Donald n Air Force
Base near Gain Wille, 8. C.,
e Havana newspaper, Revo.
luclon, said today that Cuban
antiaircraft bat t e r i e s shot
down United States Air Force
Mai. Rudolf Anderson Jr.
"while spying over Cuba" in
is U-2 plane.
It was the first Cuban ad-
mission that Anderson's plane
was actually shot down by Cu-
ban weapons. The statement
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