SPECULATION: DID THE REAL GARY POWERS REALLY FALL DOWN?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400110010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 1, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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Oart'Ieem OCdsI 75
Forest as being the remnants of earlier
logging and other use and abuse by man-
kind, and comprising primarily "poor
trees and shrubs" and including 200
kinds of weeds. In any event, only 240
Black Rock Forest would be involved in
servation organization, the Black Rock
Fish.and Game Club, which has been
granted by Harvard the use of the forest,
is among the more than 70 conserva-
tionist, professional, educational, civic,
governmental, business and labor or-
ganizations that have gone on record in
support of the hydroelectric project.
Finally, who is the unnamed "some-
body" who "committed the faux pas ...
of pointing out that striped bass ... go
up the Hudson to spawn, and that some-
thing like 85 per cent of them spawn in
the Storm King area"? Not Dr. Alfred
Perlmutter, Professor of Biology, School
of Graduate Studies, New York Univer-
sity. Not Milo C. Bell, Professor of
Fisheries, University of Washington.
These nationally recognized experts fe -
tified that the project would cause no
significant damage to fish life. Dr. Perl-
mutter testified that the maximum effect
of the project on fish would be consider-
ably, less than that of one active sports
fisherman. He noted that the latest re-
search indicates that spawning is widely
distributed along the Hudson and not
concentrated in any way in the Storm
King area, which is indicated not to be a
particularly favorable spawning ground.
Forrest R. Hauck, Head of Recreation,
Fish and Wildlife Section, Federal Power
Commission, testified that only four per
cent of theft-ludson River water passing
the plant would be utilized by the project.
The proposed project would signif-
icantly benefit all the millions of people
in this part of the country by increasing
the effectiveness and reliability of elec-
trical service in the most practical and
economical way, contributing to cleaner
air over New York City, and improving
scenic and recreational values along the
Hudson River. Certainly these are ob-
jectives that merit the support of true
conservationists. We recognize the right
of journalists to criticize -these plans.
CHARLES E. HOPPIN
Consolidated Edison Co..
New York City '
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DID THE REAL GARY POWERS
REALLY FALL DOWN?
by Paul Jacobs CPYRGHT
THE u-2 POWERS was flying was
a dud. It was supposed to go
down." The man who made that
astonishing statement to me a few weeks
ago is an aircraft engineer who had been
in a position to know a great deal about
the U-2 program; he tossed it off casu-
Illy, too, as if he weren't talking about
an occurrence that had disturbed the
whole world, wrecked the 1960 Paris
Summit Conference, forced the cancella-
tion of Dwjg4t Eisenhower's trip to the
Soviet U,@,14n land effectively wiped out
the "spirit of Camp David."
By chance, I was in Moscow on May
5th, 1960, the day when Khrushchev
announced that an American U-2 had
been shot down on the morning of May
1st. So I witnessed the disastrous effects
on the Russians of that announcement
plus the exposure, a few days later, of
what seemed to be the U.S. government's
stupid attempt to cover up the real pur-
poses of the U-2 flight. That was a tense
and anxious time for an American to be
in the Soviet Union; no one knew what
the consequences of the U-2 incident
were to be.
The U-2 story began, for me, late in
the afternoon of Wednesday, April 27th,
in the apartment of Ralph Parks, an
English journalist who lived in Moscow.
He had gone to the Soviet Union as a
correspondent for the Times of London
but quit to work for the British Daily
Worker. He lived in a comfortable apart-
ment with his wife, a Russian woman,
and we sat chatting about our friends
IIw
Russians, began drifting in. Some of,
them were overtly communist or pro- ";
communist journalists and the group
writes from North V'ietn`am, and who had '';E'
become famous for his dispatches from,
North Korea during the Korean.War...;
After A bit of polite chit-chat, I,started:
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