RED PHOTOS OF SPY PLANE WRECK 'FAKED' LOCKHEED EXPERT SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400210024-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: May 10, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

HT By Al.hon B, Bailey
News photographs of a
craft wreckage which ? Sovi
Premier . ikfta Krushchev ` ?He said t
claimer! came from an Amer- tM phowilt'aphs re'
liaised in 31Soac* last Thura-
ican U?2 plane downed bddaydid'notft the
y ?,,.nii dc~esign
Russian rocket were "faked,"Ichardcteristle. of - the' single-
a top Lpekheed Aircraft Corp.. ;engined U-2 which Khru.
official cyargdd yesterday., shchev said was shot down on
Clarence. L (Kelly) John.!May 1 while ph a spying mis-
son" a Lockheed vice president310n -deep into S' vier QtTi7
1.4 14 torrt'y
.
:Weather research jet ~Iane . Anson, chief, of fingineer-
hinted that the Wq
ians had Ing and captured intact a U?2 and its! heed, ' said that,. after studying
pilot -- missing from theirithe original wire service,
;- Adana, Turkey, base since photograph of -the wreckage,
early 1ast'weck. I Lockheed technicians." agreed
pen liu the nest
"Dart of the weekend analyyfnyg
rile Photograpbs with my op
technical people, .1 -am con-
vinccd 1 hat the sus.-;fans, for
some reason, . have, released
pictures of some other air-
plane crash," Johnson said.'
"I think the crrsll photo
graphs released by Russia are
those of one of. their own
Beagle bombers," he added.
t would be ve ittf
ryneresng
to ktu,?Aw why they have hidden
the. U-2,
-
"I do opt believe they shot"
;down the 12 by eithei
,-r a ms-
rile yr another aircraft, if
Lockheed WO KU , to -bilk"
the Ittiasian: ph" ptbgraph was
faked?
"The wi s*iecttaeit.i
taper is wrgng, as is..
turnl pattern of the
? "The heavy structural e
~~ ? "If the- .wrdckage :'p ,',
- I it wnuld?b'e extremely unlikel
I that iMr. K.hrushchev., woyl
which might well dcstrroy the,
film.
? "The la46 ' number o
,men, Women,, and - bra
to. such am importaxU Pao, of
zwreckage at this time:'Ruutae
}pbund it" for deteil+Giltudy." i
+I The Stets T1r.,.-s~.~..?..,_ i
Sanitized - Approved. For'Ilefease CIA-RD
Pound, Va., had bosh ~capyt
? Systdioytt, in the
stet M the Urtl ountaln
Ten .of . the sltidi.aeat n-i
r Fvr'cnaeed by NASA
T --'-PIING tq 196 f
or use
ASA' Called "via:
0t--rom bieee in Galifofni
110* a
York,~Alaska, Englands
Plum NASA slw o ~.~ ? ?? aI4;
~- keamen said,
'l'ire Strti
aegc Air Command
now has aba{it is 17-9. f,,,.....
spokesman at Offutt Air Z arse,
Base ]Veg said yestd
,.,eray,
"The U-2 utilizes a specially-
dealgne Pratt & Whitney T-1t7
iland tsn+ Wutx.
btructural.
welgri; for lti'high altitudg
cap ties: Its manufacturers
Operate of "heightaeitceeding
51100 feet," but ,report. put
l "venal thouuand?feet in exceet!
of hat dsure'
e lLf-2, wick a top speed
radon of lust +over `app mil
es
:pet hour, has" no anrirtutced
military 5PPPlIcatlon" To save
weights t e P'-_
d,QU b l e truck".. ++aT it c?nKle, -
f?'gear. and ado "8117k landing
wheel. The wing titruck tail
e o n I a l n small tti which
I.ivheal used in takrbfsonable
.artas
tlids when ? 1 a n ding speed
drops" .