Word: meas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with his mea cnlpa. Powers calmly described the making of a U.S. aerial spy-a process so casual as to shock British intelligence experts who followed the trial. Toward the end of his Air Force hitch as a first lieutenant in 1956, he was "approached and interviewed" by Central Intelligence agents. He passed medical exams. "A special high-altitude suit was made for me and tested at a special chamber. My pay was to be $2.500 monthly . . . approximately the same as the captain of an airliner.'' (From the Russian audience came gasps of astonishment.) About...