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In any case the Red press release is ridiculous. It failed to say why the Soviet defenses allowed the plane to penetrate so deeply inside Soviet territory and no pilot would have agreed to fly a high altitude, long range mission in an aircraft that he knew, prior to take off, to be simply a flying coffin. Yet, once again the U. S. Air Farce has not made any attempt to refute this statement or given the date when the ejector seat was last tested and found to be in working condition. _ To continue unravelling the mystery. Having made his amazing parachute descent Captain Powers was immedi- ately captured together with his do-it-yourself spy kit and without offer- ing any resistance admitted to the Soviet authorities that he was a bona- fide spy instead of sticking to his cover story that he was an employee of the Lockheed Aviation Corporation whose task it was to fly near to the Soviet frontier to detect any traces in the atmosphere of secret nuclear explosions. From the photographs of his cloak and dagger regalia it is known that Powers was in possession of a lethal hypodermic needle. He made no attempt to use it. : Determined to exploit this incident fully Khrushchev ordered the remains of the U-2 to be put on public display in Moscow's Gorky Park. But American aviation experts who carefully examined photographs of _the wreckage emphatically deny that it was part of a Lockheed U-2._ “The Unanswered Questions When news of this incident was first released people throughout (Over)