Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard spy "cover story"-of a weather flight that developed oxygen failure-was put forth in haste when Khrushchev first announced that a U-2 had been shot down, and was poorly planned. Its creators had clearly never considered the very real possibility of a U-2 or its pilot being captured, and were trapped in a lie when Khrushchev had the goods. Yet such are the unchanging habits of bureaucracy that U.S. cloak-and-dagger types, only 48 hours before the scheduled start of the summit, actually prepared an announcement that U-2 oxygen gear had passed re-examination...
Telling the Truth. Once its cover story was exposed, the U.S. fumbled. All day, after Khrushchev announced that Pilot Powers was in custody, "alive and kicking," Secretary of State Herter conferred on the situation, finally called President Eisenhower at Gettysburg, and got his approval for a State Department statement. Eisenhower and Herter announced that the surveillance flight had taken place (and thus admitted the first U.S. lie), and justified the U-2 program on the basis of the fear of surprise attack. Then, because Khrushchev himself had publicly seemed to exonerate President Eisenhower of blame, they went along with...
...order had gone, said Hagerty, to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Nathan Twining, and to Defense Secretary Gates (thus casually demolishing the President's earlier statements that the military had no part in the U-2 program). Actually, the U-2 program died the very day Pilot Powers was shot down. As an intelligence-gathering instrument, the flights had been compromised by discovery, and CIA Director Allen Dulles, the man in charge, had canceled the program without a moment's hesitation...
...another pilot tried to reach the upper camp. Link Luckett, 32, made a test run in a helicopter with a maximum altitude of 15,000 ft. Returning to the 10,200-ft. camp, he stripped his plane of a door, a 28-lb. battery, a 12-lb. radio and some cushions, so that his lightened plane could accommodate a passenger. He popped an oxygen tube into his mouth and took off. Ten minutes later he landed on the upper slope at 17,200 ft., scooped up a seriously injured John Day, 51, ferried him down...
Germs of Conflict. A graduate of Brown University (Ph.B. '25), with a Ph.D. in bacteriology at Western Reserve University's School of Medicine, Welch joined FDA in 1938. During World War II, as head of FDA's microanalytic division, he built a small pilot plant to grow his own penicillin, soon had the required standards and tests worked out. He was in on the ground floor when other antibiotics came along...