PRESS EVENING STAR 'WHY FLY THERE' 26 JULY 1960

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001700180074-6
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• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: July 26, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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J?. E S
Evening Sta
Fly There? Z6 July 1960
R eferenca to the R ,-47 which was downed of I July:
"A larger question, it seems to us, has to do wi
the reasons for sending American ptsaes and American
crews into such dangero > areas. This piano was
supposed to be raap iag rank currents as part of
a long-itanding pro ;raze. Assuming no espionage
activity, why was this work important enough to risk
plane and crew 3i'? o.: even 50 miles from Soviet
territory 7 ?'
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disc eortoas
U 1, a*rx*d *a* of tg4 g Atn+er $ss
violated Its Far rift `n fz n , The Fuses
said a 'tea ftom' had been oummittaid by a V.2 f
*vow 3&jdmjjz Limed, nord, of Jam Siberia's Padfic
"cat g there were is be
Pmt ltr fi"4 tke
UMn fear
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Missiam 3101 wia cau idered from
was checked daily but there was to alert.
On 12 October c-pars.tionst control if U-Z o rflights of Cuba w&
tranaferrscl to SAC. I' tatba-'ur prtcIuded a u$ssion an 13 qtr.
Mission 3101 wsLS #1 by SAG on 14 October. This was the
tat discovered the press"* of A B }?s.
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New York 1st, " etbxack tie Sky, " 9 h'.ay 1960
auction so haaar
as that some 4ubardinate officer would
and approval of the President is perhaps the most s tn
aspect of the eVebt. `hat has kuppe:aed( has hurt as badly
em s; but the excux
stow accident it scare zealous UOLehevik had identified
elltgence agent as a carrier of atorair bombs.
w0uld be around. to analyse the s d,rstan
ttMr1 K I s ireva, II I
".Free- li g into ligeace spooks, nervous 1tt
a strategists, single-minded physicists a n4 just garde..
variety known thdng a with finger Itching for the panic
butt*" are a an: erou t-oth sides, which makes the
world iuftaitel uore accident-prone than ever before i
history. "
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ark Times, "Red chi ; ..xisea Mystery Over U-Z,
1 3eptember 1962
"The Peipit ; w adio coati mod to announce the shooting
down of the plane. The wurding was similar to a statement
issued by i4sinhua, the new China press agency, which said:
"A United ktates-made U-2 plane of the Chiang
Kai-shek 7bat-ctit group intruded into the airspace of East
China on the morning of = a,e pt. 9 and was shot down by the.
air force of the Chinese People's 14beration Army.
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. Louis Post-Dispatch. 'Invec;tiuate t "f 9 May 1960
'It is easy enough to say that everybody ebgage> in
espionage and that the onii misfortune to in getting caught.
But aerial -napping of toozr: bing targets is sometUng
different from the ordi.uary run of espionage. It is the
kind of action we wcauld bitterly resent if applied to 'iv.
It is the kind of action that is appropriate to wartime,
or brink of wards - e,. but is highly provocative at any
other time. Congress ",ht to find out whether the
results obtained jjusttfy, the azards run. "
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eurnal, "review and Outlook. lavins with Matches.
"ending, a cloak-acid=dagger operative into Russia
to pick up papers 1:3 o .e thing. $erding an unidentified
plane far into :Russia in quite another. A cloak-and
dagger operative, could hardly start retaliatory miss le 3
on their way. A plane, even unarmed, might."
115o while we are at inind1ul as anyone of the need
for intelligence about what goes on inside Russia, it
still seems to us that ssnbodyy to playing with matches.
There may be reasons; having to do with national defense
that require u* to do that.. But when you start striking
sparks around a tinder box you run a grave risk of
starting a fire? "
Wall Street Journal, "1{ eview m Outlook, Reflections on an
Incident, r' X ayf 1960
'The. net world war, U it cWnes, can come as
well from bungling as fro design. An adventurous
American, a t:rigge :r - xappy Russian, a moment of panic--
these can e39ssi]y a the lseeda of holocaust. And just
because we can undersrd the panic that would come
from Russian planes over Kansas City. we need hive
arx dety about J s.3ruer can planes over Sverdlovsk. "
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on Post, "Iron C;urtain.s Are Obsolete, " 10 N lay 1960
"'All such actlvitiesi are provocative. Those
conducted with aircraft, however, contain an ee*csptional
ele:rnent of danger, axid for t: t rea :on the inctdent of
the espionage plane i particularly serione. There is
always the possibility that aerial eexcure ions of this
sort will trigger a clash through misunderstanding or.
even set off a major retaliatory attack. v,
Washington Post, ''Distasteful bast eceasary, " 12 May 1960
" uich flights? irorri whacever source, are perilous
and provocative. "
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?OBEF C.
"It wa& a geated that the cal &re& ,
wryly ton the haala ai grad W
t any ugh of the ik p. ding s r i
I'tam a iacarrtage might cause."
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ew York Tim , 1:a the f ation, 'i" a Enigma
Case, ss 10 may 1960
corell-r coxa cls st * *aufftc:ic tly s
We record arv Ott cqQ djn&t.k an of icy aad act has aot yet
been attained by the Xaki,mal #'ecu4ty Cot1 and the Op.ratiens
CeordLz a ng Board, sv*a in,: s ection with procs res Involving
1 of initiating nuclear Sri C-nd that there are vital Mora
lfaaks between the ''rottdetet and his authorized- agents. `:
Ork Times, si4 the 1~a1t
hix verbF"13#`a?
The situation t er In d tacks
people that ee$ .le LIi
matter of routine that ash-,Stn
t %om to c without regs r+l to their pot
contrary poc? gestures as the oaee??ting s
. Heard of an Old
authorities
tia1 Impact an Such
And it was con tp> ed for our ate!'=s by the Itate D.partmen
retraction and lcenfessior't.'
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Washington Post, "Today and Tomorrow, The Spy Plane,
10 May 1960
" hy, thy., kn*v-tttg thst such flights were being made,
did the President fall to realize the risks at continuing them
right up to the meeting at the su wait ?"
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;TON, JAM
NN&W Y09k "lid, " asHa ngton, hoar to like Things Worse Than
They Really Are, " 8 .=may 1960
"The reason for tlhi:s I ; that the element of accident in
this kind of world to frightening. Pow people believe in a
calculated nuclear war. hat worries our allies and many of
our own oMcials is the accidental iLicident touched off by some
human fang of mind or character or judi meant. "
York Times, ' as7hingtoxr, " 'bat Kind of President Do You
Want " ... Li, E r l l "air 191
".dare, perhaps erore than anywhere else, lies the
explanation the spy.plaaase confusion. The field operator was
given 'rna4mu , scope.' `here wa an 'agreed strategy'
Washington, but the apecilic operation was not authorized by
the President, or even an the President's mind until the crash.
'"The President, in short, was loyal to his subordinates
and to bar principles of admUdstration, but the tragedy is that
he 'did not impose his own inaeight:s, his own sense of direction
in the nstion',e policy.' "
tk Times, 18 May 1960 (Found in Con
19 May 1960)
"Never eleesia, the lack of control and discipline over the
Central Intelligence Agency by Ge ri ral Eiseen ow orr, and
epar