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- 1996 Sep (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Vassily Ambrosovich Poliakov, Soviet interceptor pilot, 1952-[1965], relating to US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reconnaissance missions over the USSR, 1956-1960; the Soviet deployment of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 19 'Farmer' fighter aircraft to intercept US reconnaissance aircraft over the USSR, 1956-1960; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a CIA Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960; the shooting down by Poliakov of a USAF Boeing RB-47 Stratojet aircraft over the Barents Sea and the rescue and capture of two of the aircrew, Capt John B McKone and Capt Freeman Bruce Olmstead, 1 Jul 1960; the imprisonment and treatment of the captured US aircrew, 1960. 19pp
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