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Three Strings. In his talk with Thompson, Khrushchev made it perfectly plain that he has not by one jot or tittle changed his views on the outstanding issues of the cold war-Berlin, the Congo, Laos, disarmament or nuclear testing. Khrushchev's offer to free Olmstead and McKone came at the very start of the session. He attached three strings: 1) the announcements of the airmen's release must be made simultaneously in Washington and Moscow, with no advance news leaks; 2) the U.S. must publicly declare that it has discontinued its U-2 flights over Soviet territory...
...determined to maintain the ban. The third Soviet stipulation was much more difficult to accept, and it was to become a major reason for the strict security set up around the two U.S. airmen. But Kennedy had no choice but to agree, since it meant freedom for Olmstead and McKone...
Rigid & Regular. When their six-jet modified bomber lifted clear of the airbase at Brize Norton, England last July, Olmstead and McKone and their four crewmates were beginning a mission that was vital to U.S. security. Their bomb bays were crammed not with high explosives but with delicate electronic gear designed to measure the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet radar defenses. Theirs was a flight far different from that of Francis Powers. Theirs was a "ferret mission" of a sort that has been carried out for years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland...
...that reach from Alaska across Canada. And since the ferrets must come as close as possible to coastal defenses without leaving international airspace, their careful flight plans follow courses as rigid and regular as a railroad route. There was no doubt that the Soviets knew exactly where the Olmstead-McKone RB-47 intended to fly as it circled north. If Soviet radars had not been able to trail other planes along the same route, those planes would not have been able to measure Soviet radar...
...constant danger: that at any time, using any excuse, Soviet fighters might scramble to the attack at a point chosen well in advance. U.S. intelligence officers had warned only the month before that such an incident was imminent. On that clear day last summer, the RB-47 carrying Olmstead, McKone and their companions flew into a well-laid ambush somewhere west of Novaya Zemlya in the Barents...