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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00709R000100210011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 24, 1965
• Content Type: CABLE

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1. PILOT REPORTED SEEING FIGHTERS FOUR TIMES:
A. THE FIRST OBSERVATION WAS AT 0345Z. PILOT REPORTED ONE
FIGHTER VERY CLOSE, ON THE SAME HEADING AS U?2 (048),-AND AT
A!!OUT 69, AAA FEET .
(INTEL NOTE: PILOT IS NOT SURE OF TIMES OR HIS HEADING
ON SU'gSEQUENT FIGHTER OBSERVATIONS.)
B. THE SECOND FIGHTER OBSERVATION WAS I?ETWEEN POINTS
"G AND H." PILOT SAW TWO FIGHTERS...ONE ON EACH SIDE OF HIS
PLANE AND FLYING HIGHER THAN U-2. PILOT ESTIMATED FIGHTERS
WERE AT 70900M FEET. HE SAID THE FIGHTER ON HIS. LEFT FIRED
ONE BURST WHICH EXPLODED APPROX 1f1P1r-15PM FEET IN FRONT Ur
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U-2. BURST WAS NOT PRECEDED '~Y A CONTRAIL. BURST APPEARED ~-B
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AT IF O'CLOCK LOW TO MISSION AIRCRAFT. PILOT SAID BURST FROM B_
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THE INTERCEPTOR WAS LIGHT BLACK TO GRAY IN COLOR. pA ____
PILOT SAID HE SAW THE FIGHTER EFFECT THE LAUNCH.
C. THE THIRD FIGHTER OBSERVATION WAS BETWEEN POINTS "I AND J."
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PILOT REPORTED SEEING ONE FIGHTER ON HIS RIGHT AND A LITTLE
BELOW U-2.
0. THE FOURTH FIGHTER O SERVATION WAS AT POINT "L".
PILOT SAW ONE FIGHTER ON HIS LEFT AND BELOW HIM. PILOT
ESTIMATED FIGHTER WAS AT 69,FPA FEET.
INTEL COMMENT:
PILOT REPORTED THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE O'SERVATIONS WERE THROUGH
THE DRIFT SIGHT. PILOT REPORTED THAT ALL THE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT
HE SAW WERE MIG 21?S. PILOT WAS UNA'tLE TO SEE ANY MARKINGS
ON THE INTERCEPTORS. PILOT COULD NOT ESTIMATE HOW CLOSE ANY
OF THE FIGHTERS CAME TO HIS AIRCRAFT. THERE WAS NO SYSTEM 93
ACTIVITY. CONTRAIL LEVEL WAS 419POP-61,P0PP FEET.
2. MIG 21 TACTICS:
DRIVER REPORTED ALL FIGHTERS USED IDENTICAL INTERCEPT TACTICS.
THE FIGHTERS APPROACHED ON 90 DEGREE !EAM, SLIGHTLY ASTERN AND
EFFECTED A SHALLOW TURN-ON WITH THE FINAL APPROACH APPROX
20 DEGREES OFF THE U-2 TAIL. DRIVER SAID THE MIG 21 PULL-UP
WAS SLOW AND SHALLOW DURING THE TURN-ON AND THAT THE FIGHTERS
MAINTAINED GOOD CONTROL THROUGHOUT THE MANEUVER, INCLUDING
RECOVERY. THE FIGHTERS NOSED OVER GENTLY AND DISAPPEARED
FROM VIEW. THE INTERCEPTS WERE STARTED IN CONTRAIL LEVEL
AND COMPLETEn ABOVE CONTRAIL LEVEL IN ALL CASES. (NOTE:
TACTIC DESCRI3ED AY DRIVER RESEMBLES STERN TACTIC USED RY
USAF ADC IN SAGE AND MANUAL ENVIRONMENT IN 1962. DRIVER
TURNED INTO INTERCEPTORS AS~EVASIVE TACTIC.
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