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...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...
...injected into the meeting when Nixon was informed by an aide that a light aircraft carrying two U.S. generals had strayed across the Turkish border and made an emergency landing in Soviet Armenia. The President immediately told Gromyko that he hoped the generals, their pilot and a Turkish liaison officer would be released quickly. Gromyko responded that the Soviets would take the "necessary steps" to investigate the incident, which was apparently caused by bad weather. At week's end the foursome, including Major General Edward Scherrer and Brigadier General Claude McQuarrie Jr., remained in Soviet custody. Despite requests from...
...underproductive tin mines. But after a few months, conservative businessmen and military hard-liners helped edge Ovando back toward the center, alienating many of his former supporters. He dropped the leftists in his Cabinet and ordered into retirement General Juan José Torres, his army chief of staff and liaison man with his left-wing support in the army...
Special Agent James Healy, based in Washington, pointed out that "until this new legislation was signed, we had no further authority" than acting in a liaison capacity-offering local investigators the FBI's laboratory and identification facilities, and coverage of out-of-state leads...
However, Ralph Rampton, assistant director of the FBI's Boston bureau, said after Nixon's remarks that no FBI personnel are directly involved in the case. Rampton said the FBI is working only in a liaison capacity, offering local authorities use of FBI laboratories and identification facilities, and coverage of out-of-state leads. This has been going on since before Nixon's statement, he added...