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Francis Gary Powers — Part 3
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"I have talked with HEARST two times. . During the second
conversation I asked him: ‘How is it that you told me one thing and
wrote another?' He answered: "Perhaps I expounded the conversation
erroneously.* It is necessary to give honor to the truth; he expounded
the essence of the conversation in a more or less correct form, but
published some commentaries about it in which its entire meaning was
boggled. When I told him this, he replied: "I am a capitalist and
make my comments.’ (Animation among those present) It is certain
that he is a capitalist, but the majority of you are not and will néver be.
Why, then, serve capitalism? Why be its lackeys? (Applause) I am
convinced that all roads lead to communism. What more can you ask?
"This is exactly what the North American imperialists
fear. Therefore, they are nervous and become engaged in indiscreet
adventures. This shows that they are not sure of their system. The
Department of State of the United States declared: ‘All countries are
dedicated to espionage.‘ However, the Soviet Union has never sent
planes to the United States or to other countries for the purpose of
reconnaissance. If isolated cases happened that our planes violated
involuntarily the aerial space of other countries (this happened on the
frontiers with Turkey and Iran), we would excuse ourselves before
these countries and place the responsibility on those who cause such
infractions.
"We wish to advise those who intend to send spies too our
country to think of the consequences.”
Picture on page 14:
Photographic apparatus with which the pilot-spy of the USA,
POWERS, could photograph Soviet military aerodromes, industrial
enterprises and cities along the entire flight route from a height of
20,000 m. The load of the fifm was calculated for photography of
3, 500 kilometers of the itinerary.: Seven lenses placed in the fuselage
permit, displacing the photographic apparatus, to Photograph a wide
| - area of land. |
Picture on page 15:
Is it possible that F. H. POWERS by focusing his photo-
graphic apparatus on points of the Soviet territory which his chiefs
had marked for him in their instructions, photographed some . ,
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