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Francis Gary Powers — Part 3

45 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Francis Gary Powers · 45 pages OCR'd
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i ' { ai bien Sp LAA tg, ot AB eet ae bape "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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