Word: rb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RB-47 crumb handed us by Khrushchev intended to cover up his attempt to destroy the U.N. and take over Cuba, the Congo, Laos and many others...
That story broke the next day when President Kennedy, at his first news conference, made a dramatic announcement: "Captains Freeman B. Olmstead and John R. McKone, members of the crew of the U.S.A.F. RB-47 aircraft who have been detained by Soviet authorities since July 1, 1960, have been released by the Soviet government and are now en route...
...formal conversation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Diplomatic communication leading to even the slightest relief in tension between the two countries had been all but destroyed by the crash of the U-2 and Khrushchev's foaming conduct at the summit last May. The return of the RB-47 flyers was only a gesture toward relaxing tensions. It was still winter on the cold war frontier, and RB-47 flights were still necessary along the enemy's outposts...
...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...
...Search. This was the 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...