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‘TRANSLATION FROM SPANISH THE DEMOLISHED SPY PLANE Published by the Press Office of the Embassy of the USSR * * * The North American Reconnaissance Plane Destroyed by a Soviet Rocket. The provocative incursion of the North American military reconnaissance plane "Lockheed U-2" on the territory of the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, bas attracted the attention of the entire world opinion. - The chief of the Soviet Government, N. 8. KHRUSHCHEV, in his report to the recent session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR\ and in other * .addresses . has unmasked in a convincing form this © act of aggression perpetrated by the United States of America. The pamphlet which we offer to the readers contains the text of the conversation of N. 5. KHRUSHCHEV with the Soviet and foreign journalists on May 11, 1960, in Moscow, as well as the photographic documents pertaining to the North American reconnaissance plane "Lockheed U-2" demolished by a Soviet rocket in the region of Sverdlovsk (Ural Mountains). Picture on page 2; The airplane "Lockheed U-2" after having been “hit” in the air by a Soviet rocket according to N, 5. KHRUSHCHEV. This occurred at a height of 20,700 meters in the region of Sverdlovsk (Ural Mountains), inside Soviet territory, at 8:55 on May 1. The “unreachable"pirate was demolished by the first Soviet rocket. The - impact was /fowerful that the remainders of the airplane were spread over a territory having a radius of 15 Kilometers, In the picture: the accumulated remainders of the plane. ' ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED ~~ HEREIN IS UNCLASSLED g - part sl93 prob-1 Kee fo Oo | a5 898 Vo Ab Ba