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COLD WAR 28/25
Title
Transcript of interview with Soviet Air Defence officer Georgi Mikhailov, 1996
Date(s)
- 1996 Mar (Creation)
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10pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of interview with Georgi Aleksandrovich Mikhailov, relating to Soviet anti-aircraft defences around Moscow, USSR, 1955; the development of strategic bomber aircraft by the USSR, the USA and UK, 1945-[1960]; US reconnaissance flights over the USSR, 1956-1960; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960. 10pp
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