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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000100100003-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: PREL

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PLANE
FAIRBANKS-(AP)-THE QUICK-ACTING COM1IANDER OF A U.S. AIR FORCE PLANF
SAID LAST NIGHT HF ORDERED THE CHIEF GUNNER TO "FIRE BACK" WHEN HIS
B-50 BOMBER WAS ATTACKED BY A RUSSIAN-TYPF MIG-15 HIGH OFF THE COAST OF
SIBERIA SUNDAY.
LT. COL. ROBERT S. RICH 35 TOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE AT FIFLSON
AIR FORCE BASE NEAR HERE H : TRfFD TO ESCAPE THE ATTACKER WITH A 390
MILE PER HOUR DIVE INTO A CLOUD BANK AND FIRED ONLY AFTER THE t1IG 1IAT)
OPENED UP.
THE ATTACK OCCURRED AS THE U.S. PLANE ON A ROUTINE WEATHER FLIGHT,
CRUISED NORTH 25 MILES OUT TO SEA FROM T1F SIBERIAN COAST. THE AIR
FORCE. SAID APPARENTLY NEITHER CRAFT WAS DAMAGED IN THE THIRD SUCH SKY
ENCOUNTER BETWEEN PLANES OF THE FAST AND WEST IN A WEEK.
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER DFCLINF.D TO COMMENT ON THE LATEST INCIDENT IN
THE COLD WAR AMID CONGRESSIONAL 'DEHANDS FOR AN INVESTIGATION ANT)
WARNINGS THE RUSSIANS MIGHT ATTACK AMERICAN COMP1FRCIAL PLANES ON THE
ORIENT RUN.
THE B-507 ON TEMPORARY DUTY WITH THE 15TH WF.ATHER RECONNAISSANCE
SQUADRON AT EIELSON FROM FORBFS FIF.Ln TOPEKA KAS. WAS APPROXI-
MATELY 100 MILES FAST AND SLIGHTLY NORTH OF T1~{F HUG: RUSSIAN MILITARY
BASE AT PETROPAVLOVSK ON THE KAMCHATKA PENINSULA WHFN IT WAS ATTACKFn.
JC907A 3/19
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