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—. iin ats tpewrientors iy Tee: si re 5 ", i Ms aati ES geet “reting ae bares rn oR a REP » , . ay . ewpass SP THE UNION OF SOVIET fe. a f Sociah ‘te publics Fess Department USED OF A GRIME COVERED BY ARTICLE > ~ OF THE LAW OF TUE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REF LCS *~ "ON CRUIINAL HESPONSIBILITY FOR STATE CRIMES® od. Coo (Met) 2 ae — arr Le te ae Francis Gay Owel. [ At 5136 A.M, ‘Moscow tine on Hay Ist, 1960, an pnimow plane violated the ” “state frontier of the USSR at a ‘point 20 kiloneters southeast of the tom of Kirovabad, the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, intruded into the airspace of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and proceeded into Soviet territory at . 4&n altitude of 20,000 metere”, : : ; The plane which violated the Soviet frontier ws tracked continuously by units of the Soviet anti-aircraft defense, This surveillance showed that the plane'e route lay over large industrial centers end important defensive objec- tives-of the Soviet Union. Throughout the entire flight, the plane remained et an altitude of 20,000 meters at which no flights are made by any civilian planes. The obtained data left no doubt that this was a deliberate incursion with hostile aims into the airspece of the USSR. In view of this » the Soviet Government ordered the plane to be shot down. in fulfillment of this order, a unit of the Soviet anti-aircraft defense brought the aforesaid plane dow by a rocket, with the very first shot, at 8:55 A.M, Hoscow time, when it ws at the altitude of 20,000 meters in the area of Sverdlovsk, that is over 2,000 kilometers from the point there it crossed the i frontier of tiie Soviet Union. The pilot of the plane baled out and was detained Z The very first interrogation established that he was Francis Gary Powers, a AA citizen of the United States of America (Volume 2, pages 20-23; volume 2, page 2; volume 7, page 6). The examination of the plane's wreckage and of the Special equipment it carried established that it was an American plane of the "Lockhead U-2 type, designed for flights at great altitudes, adapted for intelligence purposes and, to this end, equipped for aerial photography and radio reconnaissance from | great heights. Found auong the wreckage were films of Soviet airfields and. other important military and industrial objectives in the Soviet Union. More- over, a ferromagnetic tape was found with @ recording of the Signals of certain Soviet radar stations (Volume 2, pages 49-52, 128-146, 227, 228; 248-253), The preliminary investigation, conducted by the State Security Committee under the Council of liinisters of the USSR, established that the espionage flight of this plane had been organized with the knowledge of the Government of the Unitcd States by @ special American intelligence mit based in Turkey and ' know under the code nane of Detachment 10-10 (Volume 2, pa es 2,,3, 13, 1 05 S7 Lie 217). ; REG a, “Not RECORDED When Comrade N.S, Khrushp he Chairman of the Goungiloef Minis- ters, disclosed this gan-ster flioht in his report to the session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Hay 5th, 1960, a spokesman of the Is, Departgent of State " admitted on the same dey that the fact of the violation of the-Yrontier of the USSR by an American plane was "entirely possible" but would be of an accidental, unpremeditated nature, According to the statement of the Department of State, ; a "Lockheed U-2" plane had on Nay 1st engaged in weather research, took taiy : samples" in the upper laycrs of the atmosphere in the area of the Soviet-Turkish f frontier, and etrayed off course because of a failure in oxygen equipment. This 4 lost consciousness » and the plane’eentinned on the automatic pilot and acciden- ~y".-. tally intruded into the sirspaoeAig the Soviet Union. This version wes con- - ff Lirn é & Rbatenat) by the National Aérofautics and Space) > EBB Mics et Res : “e- \ tne wT ometer equals .60137 mila *0ne meter equals 3.28 feet. - Ti . . porte £ ‘ . . we pe * fetter ee SD ene wee we : bie aan Dyan way etn mene oe ~