Item COLD WAR 25/1 - Transcript of interview with fisherman Francisco Simo Orts, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Francisco Simo Orts, Spanish fisherman who witnessed the splashdown in the Mediterranean of a US thermonuclear bomb following the Palomares incident, the collision of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and a Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft over Spain resulting in the loss of the two aircraft and the crash landing of four thermonuclear weapons, Spain, Jan 1966, relating to the information Orts gave to the US authorities to help to locate the lost B-28 thermonuclear bomb, Jan-Apr 1966; the US operation to salvage the lost bomb, Jan-Apr 1966; the deployment of the US 6 Fleet to secure the area of the Mediterranean above the lost bomb, Jan-Apr 1966; the radioactive contamination of Palomares, Spain, 1966; the prohibition by Spanish head of state Gen Francisco Franco (Bahamonde) of future USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) nuclear armed flights over Spanish territory, 1966. 33pp