Orin Humphries, 'High Flight,' Wings (June 1983): 50.
Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 454-82.
James G. Bright and David A. Welch, On the Brink (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989), 311, 327, 369. Although only forty-five at the time of the missile crisis, Statsenko was retired soon afterward, apparently because of the shooting down of Anderson's U-2. There is some evidence he tried to blame the Cubans for the firing.
'One Minute to Midnight; The Real Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.'
Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 483-89.
Pocock, Dragon Lady, 82–85. Ten air force U-2 pilots, Majors Richard Heyser, Buddy Brown, Ed Emerling, Gerald Mcllmoyle, Robert Prim-rose, and Jim Quails, and Captains George Bull, Roger Herman, Charles Kern, and Dan Schmarr received Distinguished Flying Crosses for their Cuban overflights between October 14 and 28. Major Rudolph Anderson was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest peacetime decoration. Another six U-2 pilots who made Cuban overflights Notes 305 after October 28 received no awards, despite the uncertainty in the days following the resumption of U-2 missions.
Wagner, Lightning Bugs and Other Reconnaissance Drones, 42.
Dean Rusk, Memorandum for the President, Subject: Warning to Cubans and Soviets against Interference with Our Aerial Surveillance of Cuba (Lyndon B. Johnson Library: Austin, Tex., March 15, 1964).
Memorandum for the President, Re: NSC Agenda, Tuesday, May 5, 1964 (Lyndon B. Johnson Library: Austin, Tex.). Interestingly, the text of the original memo was changed after it was typed. It originally read, 'we have drones which could do this job. ' The word 'could' was crossed out and 'might' was written in with an underline. Another line originally read 'which would enable them to continue indefinitely even if Castro tried to bring them down.' The word 'indefinitely' was crossed out. Clearly, at some point, second thoughts began to grow about the drones.
'U.S. Studies Drones for Use Over Cuba,' San Diego Union, May 6, 1964, sec. A. The 'F-104' should be 'RF-101' — no reconnaissance version of the F-104 was ever used over Cuba. Also, the article implied that low-level flights were still being made in 1964. In fact, they had ended when the missiles were removed.
Electronic Spies (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1991), 100-5.
