U-2 MAKER DOUBTS SOVIET PLANE STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400210025-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: May 10, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

}yQy; YORK nitized - Approved For, RRIgla{;CIA-RDP75-0.0
plane said to ay 1e, dy$*d
at the'Sov1OiJ jo( b. shot
t' dOwn 'news Mood 'V
arnit's U.2 iintt ''i isno jet
CPY? c-ii#~ KU
~ese-
After having'studiea Soviet
photo ;raphs of the aircraft, C-
"1 'aii.k the trash Photo-
0 It sl are
a
la. Johagon, the designer. i.con-
tclitd, d U. i t they were raked,
graphs; ri e~i-cd h} us
?' it their own Beagle! graph `has no co utterpart in
t itu:.r of n
e V-.
?l1:-Johnson said to- (,Using the original wirephoto
"mild be very inter- (which shows bettor detail than
tine to ;(now why tiiey have~the newltipaper reproducttonsl
iudd^n ti c' tJ--. not one'cingle U-2 part could
6r, ;canning ii:e best,patt berme identified the wreckage. of the U-2`
:? i tines .c ""li-en;i :cnalyxing the-ac- it bad as ,hat shown, it
niiotogr,i.pn,, with my tp.tcch-\,,oulrl be extremely unlikely
~tl'at 1 i-enij r Khrushehev would,
have rny photograph to- wave
.rcuhd his public. Much of the,
wreckage I4, daniaged by fire,
which ruigl;t well destroy the
marked Ip=1
of a U-2. T.tie wing taper is!
wrong as i} the structural pat-i -
9'I'he 'heavy structural. tie-
merit at the top of the photo- '
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Sanitized - Approved For Rejease..: CIA-RDP75-00149R000400210025-1