Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...imperil his country and prove that Washington is pursuing "a policy of criminal aggression." The Soviets dropped contradictory hints-some to the effect that they might release the Americans this week, others indicating that they might be preparing to put them on trial, just as they had U-2 Pilot Gary Powers...
...gear. A twin-engine cruiser, it had set out from the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, carrying the head of the U.S. military-aid mission in Turkey, Major General Edward C.D. Scherrer; his deputy for ground forces, Brigadier General Claude M. McQuarrie Jr.; Major James P. Russell Jr., the pilot; and Colonel Cevdat Deneli, a Turkish liaison officer. Their mission was to inspect Turkish forces at Kars, some 20 miles from the Soviet border...
...Pilot Russell apparently was using his automatic direction-finder (ADF), a standard navigational device that "homes" on a radio beacon. Though...
...evidence that the Soviets deliberately tried to attract Russell's craft. But U.S. experts are convinced that the plane accidentally locked on to the Soviet beam and followed it across the border. Ground observers who reported that the craft zigzagged into Soviet airspace twice probably saw the pilot trying to correct his original error. However, two Russian MIGs swooped down and forced it to land near Leninakan. There the four men were taken into custody...
There are rumors that a swap may in fact be in the works. Wolfgang Vogel. the East Berlin lawyer who was instrumental in the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, is active in the case. So is Manhattan Lawyer Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet during the Eisenhower Administration who has negotiated the release of seven Americans from East Germany since 1965. If the Soviets are determined to bring about a better climate in Berlin, Moscow may try to pressure the East Germans to free the students. But there is also...