SOVIETS SAID TO HAVE LOST 12 SPACEMEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200240117-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: May 1, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Soviets Said
To Have Lost
12 Spacemen
STANFORD, Calif., April 30
(UPI)-The Russians have lost
a dozen cosmonauts in space
flight mishaps, a historian
who has made a special study
of the subject declared today.
Vladimir Komarov, killed
on his return to earth
April 24, was the first an-
nounced Soviet space mission
fatality. But Julius Epstein,
a research associate at the
Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution and Peace, at
Stanford University said
American authorities know of
11 other cosmonauts who
were lost.
Epstein, a native of Austria, l
said his Soviet space research
was a personal project not
sanctioned by the. University.
The U.S. policy of not dis-
closing Soviet space disasters
that the Russians do not dis-
close is based on the State
Department's desire "not to l
embarrass the Russians," he
said.
Russian -space men who
have disappeared without of-
ficial explanation included
Piotr Dolgow, Serenty Shibo-
rin, Wassilievitch Zowodovsky,
Alexei Belokonev, Iwan Kas-
cheur, Alexis Gratzcv and
Jennady Michailov, he said.
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