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0 OCEANA IS LS CEK;'s lo Wane lo ri a TT My. Motinye . Tee ¢ Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm____ 3 Mr. Trotter. } Mr. W.C.Sullivan 3 Tele. Room____ : Mr. Ingram, Miss Gandy___, IT SEEMS TO US THAT mericans who go to extremes of emo- tionalism and ¢onclusion-jumping about our espionage plane that was | shot down deep in Russia are unwit- . tingly assisting Khrushchev's propa-. ganda offensive, *- ” It would be silly to deny the inci- dent is galling to Americans. It is. Not ‘because of the fact of espionage, but. ‘because of the misfortune of getting caught, and getting caught at such a delicate time, with the Paris summit conference only a week away.’ . a This country would be foolish if, in view of the massive evidence of Soviet spying, from the theft of the atomic bomb to the snooping of Red sub- Marines and other graft at the scenes ‘of U. S. missile tests, it did not engage in the most vigorous and daring counter _ Measures, ‘ SOON : — soe (47 Detroit TMmas _ THE TIMING OF THE mission lan, was a bungle. So was the original ex- ’ witcr: Jota C, Manning lanation of the state department and :_ ee PILOT POWERS . =. oo ational Aeronautics and Space Ad- () ministration that the plane was study- Extitor: .ing weather when the pilot blacked out and strayed across the Turkish border. b Date: es o ‘C There isn’t any question about that, Esiticn: oe Kge 3 14 DTT ATE Nrerergg betel Detroit, Wich. ( ) Detroit Pres Press Esitor: Lee Hilis 14 ‘Damiana dana ( ) Detrott Fos ' Editor: Martin S. Hayden but the way some people are talking 7a: . you would think we had sold our world _ tne “ a2 Col 3 om deadership down the Volga. i i In the business of spying it is in- evitable that bungles will be made and Andividuals caught. ‘Consider the number of Russian spies the great FBI has netted. There is no cause for shame 4 because we booted a big one. ; ‘\p In this connection we would like to el 3) t in a word of caution against jump- _ an ; § to consfusions about the pilot, - yo oe. (r 2 -/C (fi IE, 4 . nej Powers. Some ne%gpaper — he 2 .B. ; | comet eee eee”, . corknenjdtors are suggesting he‘went C8 NOT RECORDED ee = chicherf because he (a) didn't des Noy aren oo MAY 1°7 1960 ~~ the plane and (b) didn’t destroy him- “{.'*