THE BALTIC INCIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004900020011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT The Baltic lncir?ent
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JCormneett: The following item apparently was picked up in
o a a et circles in Beirut and is being diik.ributed for whatever
interest it may hold as an indication of a type of explanation of the
Baltic incident which is being spread abroad.
The American bomber flying over Lithuania on 6 April. 1950 fired on the
three Soviet fighter planes ;,,-hick had intercepted it. Consecuently, the
Soviet fienters shot it do?,,m? The American flyers were caved, but they
will never be repatriated
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