INTO RUSSIA CHARGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP33-02415A000200350136-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 136
• Publication Date: July 11, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2001/09/07 : CIA-RDP33-02415A000200350136-0
Charged
but promised *o check with
"approp ate au sn*riUes" in the.
Defense Department. There
was no immediate commenti
from the latter Department.
Dulles made no reply, said, a
spokesman, when Zaroubin told
him ..through an interpreter
what was in thhe._Russian text
of the ppxe? which 4e delivered. I
Zaroubin, unsmiling and
grim, told reporters after call-
ng on Dulles that tlae .Amer-
ican planes flew over Minsk,
]Pinsk, ! iningrad, Vilna, Lau-
ttas auk araaovichi.
Kaliningrad, Kaunas a n d
Vilna are in the former Baltic
republic of Lithuania, seized by
Russia in 1940.. Minsk, Bara-
novichi,and Pinsk are in White
Russia, a Soviet republic which
borders Lithuania.
A Moscow radio broadcast
heard in London yesterday said
the planet, came from Western
Germany by way of Communist
East Germany and Poland.
The broadcast said the pro-
test to Washington declared:
"Noteworthy in this connec-
tion is the fact that the above
violations of Soviet air space
by American aircraft have
coincided with the stay in the
Federal Republic of Germany
rf the Commander of the
Jnited States Air. Force, Gen.
Nathan) Twining."
Twining stopped over in Ger-
tany en route home from a
eeent visit to Moscow.
Protest Declares
Military Planes
Violated Borders
3 Times in Week
(Map )n Page 6)
#ssocljEed Press
Russia charged yesterday
that American m i l iIt.a r y
planes flew deep into West-
ern Russia three times with-
in the past week in a "gross
violation of S o v i e t air
space."
Soviet Ambassador Georgi
Zaroubin, acting on instruc-
tions 'from Ioscow, lodgad the
protest in a formal note handed
to Secretary of State John Fos-
ter Dulles.
Zaroubin denounced the al-
leged overflights as "an inva-
siox} of our air" and said.,spne
a
ith,e,tllts penetxated.up to
4326 kilometer, or abou 20O
miles, his ,e Rus;aia,
"Some these planes re-
mained there two hours and.
one half," he told reporters.
Approved For Release 2001/09/07 : CIA-RDP33-02415A000200350136-0