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...apparently little more than dots on the map to him. A man who by his testimony belonged to no political party and had never voted. Powers was simply an expert airplane chauffeur describing his trade. "I don't know." he said when asked about the workings of the U2's phenomenal electronic brain. "I just turned on the switches." How did he get into the spy game? "I felt lucky to get such a good job-flying service with a big salary...
...aftermath of the U2, the U.S. heard some wails from the fainter-hearted citizens of allied nations that U.S. bases might attract Russian rockets. But last week a refreshing note came from an unexpected quarter. Said Thailand's Premier Sarit Thanarat to reporters: "Thailand is the pivot of the free-world alliance in Asia. If one of our neighbors becomes dominated by Communists, rocket bases will be an absolute necessity." Tough Field Marshal Sarit named no names, but his message was obviously meant for Laos and, especially, Cambodia, whose Prince Sihanouk has been busily courting the Chinese Communists...
...last week, though, Alsop had reverted to his ordinary gloomy self and even while retracting his lapse into optimism was blaming it on the Eisenhower Administration. Wrote he: "When the U-2 story first broke, it was natural to read very good news into the bad news. The U2's most significant effect in this country was to give a false picture of the continuing power of the American deterrent. As usual, the Administration failed to set the record straight...
...knew that the U-2 had a secret intelligence mission, testified Dr. Hugh Dryden, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but had no detailed information. After Khrushchev's first announcement that Russia had shot down the U2, reporters bombarded Dryden for the story. He called CIA, got the dusted-off cover story, and put together the statement that the plane was lost on a weather flight. "I was told that these statements had been cleared by CIA with the State Department. I did not independently check that fact." What nobody had bothered to tell Dryden...
...revising the original lie. the Russians bumbled into another one. To explain why the crash did not shatter the plane into small fragments, they said that the U-2 was largely built of unusually lightweight metal (i.e., titanium), and therefore did not fall so very hard. Fact: the U2's frame was not built of titanium, but of ordinary aircraft-grade Duralumin...