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Te Sa) @oe- After being enlisted by the American Intelligence Qusce he ws sent for special training to a desert eirfidid in Nevada. coger Se e Wie ed ge as "At this-edrfield shich at the same time is a part of an atomic testing - ground, for two months and e half he atudied-the-high-altitude “Lockheed 0-2" ; ‘plane and received instruction in the operation of equipment designed to i ~~). tercept radio and radar signals. Piloting aircraft of this t;pe, Powers made . .bigh altitude long-range training flights over California, Texas and northern ‘United States. ; . Se ’ For secrecy's gake the spy pilots who underwent training at his airfield were registered under fictitious nemes. In particular Powers was registered there under the name of Palmer. (Volume 2, pages 192-494; volume 3, pages 45-513 volume k, pages 17-52.) ; . - After special training Powers was sent to the American-Turkish Incirlik militery airbase neer Adana where the reconnaissance unit, known under the ~ ne code name of "10-10" detachment wes stationed. mo — , This detachment assigned to conduct intelligence work against the USSR by sending spy planes into the airspace of the USSR to gether information on mili- > industrial and other important objectives for the sake of camouflage was officially subordinated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). (Volumé 2, pages 195, 217; volume h, pages 52=56, 62, 313.) be gate ype picebe toe . Concerning the certificate found on Powers which was issued on January ist, 1959, he stated that this certificate tsays that I have the right to pilot a U.S. Air Force plane. It was issued to me in the detacmment #10-104 on air- base in Incirlik. The certificate wes issued to us in the name of NASA.® (Volume 3, page 163.) . On orders of the "10-10" detachment command, Powers made systematic in- telligence flights since 1956 in a special high-altitude “Lockheed U-2" plane along the Soviet borders with Turkey, Iren and Afghanistan. (Volume 2, pages 8, 177, 178, 237-239.) Povers stated about these flights: "We would take off from Incirlik air- drome and would fly eastward as far as the town of Van, situated on the lake of the sane name. After that we would proceed to Teheran, the capital of Iran, and having passed it would fly eastward, to the south of the Caspian Sea. After that I usually flew to the south of iieshed, crossed the Iranian-Afghani frontier and further along the Afghani-Soviet frontier...not far fron the eastern fron- tier of Pakiatan a turn wis made and w returned to the Incirlik airdrome taking the same route. Later on we began making a turn earlier, after penetrating into the Afghan territory for about 200 miles." (Volume 3, page 9.) Powers further pointed out that during his intelligence flights in this area he was told to use as emergency airdromes, in case of e possible lending, he sirfields of Neshed and Teheran in the territory of Iran. (Volume 3, page T° . The course of Powers’ flight over the territory of the Soviet Union on May 1st, 1960 wes carefully prepared in advance. This is indicated by the fact that this flight was entrusted precisely to Powers, who familiarized hin- self with Bodde airport in Norway as early es 1958. weet As established by the investigation, on April 27th, 1960 Powers was brought dn @ transport plane of the United States Air Force from the Incirlik airforce... ___. pase to Pakistan--the Peshawar airport. Colonel Shelton and a party of 20 peo- ple from among the maintenance personnel of the "10-10" detachment errived @imultaneously at Peshawar base to prepare this flight. The specially fitted- out "Lockheed U-2" plane vas flow there from Turkey by another pilot of the #16-10" detachment. (Volume 2, pages 179, 197-193, 20-24; volume 3, pages 6-73 volume 4, pages 59-60.) ; On the night of May 1st, 1960, two and a half hours before take-off, Powers was ordered by Shelton to fly over the territory of the USSR from south to north at an altitude of 20,000 meters along the following route: Peshawar, the Aral Sea, Sverdlovsk, Kirov, Archangel, Hurmansk and to land at Bodde in Norway. oe OTE In accordance with the ordere he received Powers when flying over certain - yoosa--=. - -points of the Soviet territory was to switch on the special equipment with * ‘which the plane tas fitted out for aerial photography and registration of the operation of radar stations of the Soviet Union's anti-aircraft-defense systen- On Shelten's orders Powers was to give special attention to several places.” his course and to 2 points--at one of which a missile-launching site - to be located and at the other an especially important defense o ce