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At the disposal of the Soviet expert commission which carried out the investigation, there is indisputable proof of the esplonage-reconnaissance mission of the American aircraft: films of Soviet defense and industrial establish- ments, a tape recording of signals of Soviet radar stations and other data. Pilot Powers, about whose fate the Embassy of the United States of America inquired in its note of May 6,° is alive and, as indicated in the aforementioned speech of Chairman of the U.8.8S.R. Council of Ministers N. 8. Khrushchev, will be brought to account under the laws of the Soviet state. The pilot has indicated that he did everything in full accordance with the assignment given him. On the flight map taken from him there was clearly and accurately marked the entire route he was assigned after takeoff from the city of Adana (Turkey): Peshawar (Pakistan)-the Ural Sea—Sverdiovek—Arch- angel-Murmansk, followed by a landing at the Norwegian airfield at Bude. The pilot has also stated that he served in subunit number 10-10 which under cover of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is en- gaged in high altitude military reconnaissance. This and other information revealed in speeches of the head of the Soviet Government completely refuted the U.S. State Department’s concocted and hurriedly fabri- cated version, released May 5 in the official announcement for the press, to the effect that the aircraft was allegedly carrying out meteorological observations in the upper strata of the atmosphere along the Turkish-Soviet border. After the complete absurdity of the aforementioned ver- sion had been shown and it had been incontrovertibly proven that the American aircraft intruded across the borders of the Soviet Union for aggressive reconnaissance Purposes, a new announcement was made by the U.S. State Department on May 7 which contained the forced admission that the aircraft was sent into the Soviet Union for military reconnaissance purposes and, by that very fact, it was admitted that the flight was pursuing aggressive purposes. In this way, after two days, the State Department al- ready had to deny the version which obviously had been {intended to mislead world public opinion as well as American public opinion itself. The State Department considered it appropriate to refer in its announcement to the “open skies” proposal made by the Government of the United States of America in 1955 and to the refusal of the Soviet Government to accept this May 30, 1960 ___Proposal. Yea, the Soviet Government, tke the govern- ments of many other states, refused to‘accept-this-proposal_ __ __ which was intended to throw open the doors of other na- tions to American reconnaissance. The activities of American aviation only confirm the correctness of the evaluation given to this propose) at the time by the Soviet Government. Does this not mean that, with the refusal of a number of states to accept this proposal for “open skies”, the United States of America is attempting arbitrarily to take upon itself the right “to open” a foreign sky? _It is enough to put the question this way, for the complete groundless- ness of the aforementioned reference to the United States of America “open skies” proposal to become clear, It follows from the aforementioned May 7 announce- ment of the U.8.A. State Department that the hostile acts of American aviation, which have taken place numerous times in relation to the Soviet Union, are not simply the result of activity of military commands of the United States of America in various areas but are the expression of a calculated U.S.A. policy. That which the Soviet Gov- ernment has repeatedly declared in its representations to the Government of the United States of America in con- nection with violations of U.8.8.R. national boundaries by American airplanes has been confirmed, namely, that these violations are premeditated. Ali this testifies that the Government of the United States of America, instead of taking measures to stop such actions by American avia- tion, the danger of which has more than once been pointed out by the Soviet Government, officially announces such actions as its national policy, Thus, the Government of the United States of America, in the firet place, testifies to the fact that ite answers to representations of the Soviet Government were only for the sake of form, behind which was concealed an effort to avoid the substance of the issue, and that all violations by American aircraft of the national boundaries of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics represented actions conforming to U.S.A. policy. In the second place, and this is the main point, by sanc- tioning such actions of American aviation, the Govern- . ment of the United States of America aggravates the sit- vation even more. ; One must ask, how is it possible to reconcile this with declarations on the part of leading figures of the United States of America, that the Government of the United States of America, like the Soviet Government, also strives for improvement of relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, for relaxation of international tension, and strengthening of trust between states. Military intelligence activities of one nation by means of intrusion of its aircraft into the area of another country can hardly be called a method for improving relations and strengthening trust. It is self-evident that the Soviet Government is com- pelled, under such circumstances, to give strict orders to _ its armed forces to take all necessary measures against violation of Soviet boundaries by foreign aviation. The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics re- gretfully states that, while it undertakes everything pos- --elble for normalization and improvement of the interna-