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Francis Gary Powers — Part 5

60 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Francis Gary Powers · 60 pages OCR'd
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Brom the pen of retar 3}xhctey-niytne, Editor of the anti-Communist report entitled "Free Russia’ comes a sensational comment based on Intelligence observations. We reproduce his report concerning the U-2 incident in full. oe yi . 7 a, oe hk wk ee The American U-2 spy plane brought down on May 1, 1960, near Sverdlovsk, 1,350 miles inside the Soviet Union, was not an accident. Neither was it brought down by a super anti-aircraft missile. | According to a report sent from behind the Iron Curtain by the Russian underground movement, the "Russian Revolutionary Forces" -- RRF - the U-2 was captured by the Soviets as the result of a plan carefully carried out by a Communist intelligence unit called "Molnia" so that Khrushchev could deliberately wreck the Paris Summit Conference and use the spotlight of world publicity to blame President Eisenhower for the failure. Its capture was also to mark the commencement of a new Communist- sponsored vitriolic anti-American campaign that has since met with great success in Japan. The Russian underground report states: "For five years there has existed, with its headquarters here in the Soviet Union, a special in- telligence group with agents scattered throughout the world. Its task is ; to steal new types of aircraft and other material secrets from the West. "The group, known by the code name "Molnia' - Lightening - is under the command of a Colonel Jurii Petrovitch Smolnikov. And it is claimed in leading Communist Party ‘circles that 'Molnia' was not only responsible for capturing t the American plane, but since its was ; formed in 1955 has oe successfully stolen from under the noses of Western Counter-Intelligence (Over)
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