12. Adam J. Hebert, “Long Roads to Redemption,” Air Force, July 2012, p. 4.
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1. Robert Sorrell, “Heart in the Sky: Lonesome Pine Airport Dedicates Terminal to Wise County Veteran,” Bristol (Virginia) Herald Courier, March 12, 2006, https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/lonesome-pine-airport-dedicates-terminal-to-wise-county-veteran/article_e905b0a1-33be-57fa-8dfc-26af27494580.html.
2. Ibid.
3. Stephen Igo, “Lonesome Pine Airport Terminal Dedicated in Honor of Cold War Spy Plane Pilot,” Times News (Kingsport, TN), March 14, 2016, http://www.timesnews.net/News/2016/03/14/Airport-terminal-dedicated-in-honor-of-Cold-War-spy-plane-pilot-1.
4. Jerry K. Staub, letter to President Richard Nixon, August 31, 1971. Released by the CIA after a Freedom of Information Act request.
5. Memorandum for Executive Officer, “Items for General Cushman’s Black Book,” September 16, 1971. Released by the CIA after a Freedom of Information Act request.
6. Memorandum from Lawrence R. Houston, October 19, 1971. Released by the CIA after a Freedom of Information Act request.
7. Memorandum for John F. Blake, August 4, 1977, Released by the CIA after a Freedom of Information Act request.
8. Memorandum from John Parangosky, October 27, 1972. Released by the CIA after a Freedom of Information Act request.
9. Memorandum to Director, Special Projects Staff, October 24, 1971. Released by the CIA after a Freedom of Information Act request.
10. Associated Press, “Son of US Spy Pilot Views U-2 Artifacts at Russian Museum,” Air Force Times, December 7, 2017, http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2017/12/07/son-of-us-spy-pilot-views-u-2-artifacts-at-russian-museum.
11. “Almanac: Ian Fleming,” CBS Sunday Morning, May 28, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-ian-fleming/.
12. Ibid.
INDEX
A-12 Blackbird, 129
Abel, Rudolf, 11, 12, 54, 110–16, 234, 255
Abel v. United States, 111
Adenauer, Konrad, 47
Ambrose, Stephen E., 80
Ames, Aldrich, 243
Anderson, Brian, 176
Anderson, Gregg, 142–43, 162, 245
Anderson, Rudolf, Jr., 130
Andonian, Harry, 45
Angleton, James, 183
Apollo 1, 120
Area 51, 37, 39–40, 149
Arlington National Cemetery, 142–43, 259–60
Baa Baa Black Sheep, 148
Baburin, Serge, 263
Baugh, Betty George, 85
Baugh, James, 84–88, 91, 94, 98–100, 125–28
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 94–95
Beale Air Force Base, 176, 256
Beerli, Stan, 64, 73
Betterton, Michael, 47–48, 51, 55, 81
Berlin Airlift, 22
Berlin Wall, 106, 161, 164, 175, 253
Berry, Lindsey, 253
Bevacqua, Tony, 23–25, 52–53, 67, 174
Birdseye, John, 50
Bissell, Richard, III, 38
Bissell, Richard “Dick,” Jr., 37–39, 61, 63, 74–75
Biryuzov, Sergei, 71
bomber gap, 27–28, 30, 53, 83
Bond, James (character), 122–23, 264
Bong, Richard, 33
Borisoglebsky, V. V., 92, 96–97, 100
Bowen, Tom, 170
Boyd, David, 81
Boyd, Liz, 20
Bozart, Jimmy, 53
Bradley, Omar, 154
Bradt, Kenneth, 119, 124–25, 129, 130
Bridge of Spies (film), 255–56
Brown, Monteen, 85, 126–27
Bruce, David K. E., 28
Bulganin, Nikolai, 46
Burke, William, 61
C-121 Super Constellation, 25
Caen, Herb, 219
Cantor, Eric, 248
Carpenter, Buz, 176, 248
Carter, Jack, 35
Carter, Jimmy, 143
Castro, Fidel, 105, 106
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), 94, 98, 264
Central Armed Forces Museum, 246
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 32, 35, 42, 51, 52, 55, 74, 75, 80, 81, 86, 90, 94, 107, 110, 113, 116, 117, 119, 123, 124, 125, 129, 130, 132, 134, 150, 154, 157, 158, 161, 168, 172, 173, 174, 175, 182, 184, 192, 196, 239, 242, 249, 251, 260
and acquisition of debriefing transcript, 180
and Bay of Pigs fallout, 106
and bomber gap, 30
and coded messages, 205
distrust of Powers family by, 92–93
Francis Gary Powers awarded medal by, 176
and Francis Gary Powers’s burial arrangements, 142
Francis Gary Powers’s resentment toward, 137–38
interventions of, 29–30
monitoring of Francis Gary Powers by, 261
and New York Times article, 188
next-generation tools of, 57
and NSA intelligence dispute, 183
origins of, 28–29
and pilot unpreparedness, 72
and Powers settlement, 258–59
and Prettyman Commission, 118
probing on altitude by, 181
and risks of shoot-down, 61–62
and secret air base, 37
and success of U-2, 53
and training crashes and deaths, 66–67
U-2 deployment by, 47–49
and U-2 development, 38–40, 43
and U-2 mandate, 36
Chaffee, Roger, 120
Chancellor, John, 94
Checkpoint Charlie, 114
Church, Frank, 138
Church Committee, 138
Civilian/Military Service Review Board, 171–72, 249
Clifton, Irma, 242
Cold War Museum, The, 169, 241, 245
Collins, William, 41, 50
Connell, Jim, 171
Conrad, Chris, 133, 139, 145, 147, 149, 150, 252
Conrad, Joan, 139–40
Conrad, Robert, 14, 133, 137, 148–49, 154
Cordes, Harry, 184, 191
Costello, Edith, 158
Cuban Missile Crisis, 130–31
Cumberland Airport Commission, 257
Curry, Sol, 92
Cronkite, Walter, 94
Cruz, Frank, 141
Dailey, Jack, 177
David Clark Company, 45
Davis, Tom, 177
Deavel, R. Philip, 175
de Gaulle, Charles, 83
Dickson, William P., 91
Dilworth, Richardson, 119
Donovan, James B., 12, 54, 110, 112, 114, 115. 256
Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” 28–29
Douglas DC-3, 21
Douglas DC-6, 25
“duck and cover,” 22
Dulles, Allen W., 29, 38, 49, 84, 90
assurances by, 75
and Bay of Pigs, 106
and birth of CIA, 29
and cover story, 77
and descent theory, 110
and estimate of Soviet bombers, 30
and Khrushchev’s silence, 58
meeting with Francis Gary Powers of, 117–18
Nixon’s blame of, 104
offer to resign by, 80
public recognition of Francis Gary Powers by, 132
and risks of overflights, 31
and Skunk Works deal, 36
and Soviet propaganda, 96
support of 1960 overflights by, 57
Dulles, John Foster, 29
Dunaway, Glen, 48
Eden, Anthony, 46
Edens, Buster, 132
Eglin Air Force Base, 24
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 11, 29, 30, 31, 35, 48, 49, 51, 52, 59, 61, 74, 81, 98, 104, 106, 110, 175