Pocock, Dragon Lady, 26–29. Of the fifty-five early-model U-2s built, only ten still survived when the type was retired in 1980. One of these was Article 347, the first U-2 to overfly the Soviet Union. It is now on display, along with a B camera, at the National Air and Space Museum.
Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 30–32.
Pocock, Dragon Lady, chap. 3.
Steven J. Zaloga, Soviet Air Defence Missiles (Alexandria, Va.: Jane's Information Group, 1989), 37; and Shaw, 'Interview with Bissell,' 18, 19, 22.
Peebles, The Moby Dick Project, 199, 200.
Steven J. Zaloga, Target America (Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1993), 255.
Peebles, The Moby Dick Project, 204-6.
Pocock, Dragon Lady, 63, 64, 157.
The Chicago Show, Transcript, April 30, 1970, WLS-TV (Francis Gary Powers File, Central Intelligence Agency: Washington, D.C.), 9.
Pocock, Dragon Lady, 30, 31, 43, 66. It was initially thought Sicker had loosened his faceplate to eat when the engine flamed out. Ground tests, however, indicated the clip had failed under pressure.
A. J. Goodpaster, Memorandum for the Record (Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kans.: February 8, 1960).
Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 43. Sverdlovsk was a major Soviet military and industrial city. The Kyshtym 40 facility outside town included reactors that produced the nuclear material, the weapon assembly facilities, and waste storage tanks. Also in the area was a flight test center for trials of aircraft weapons systems. It was an SA-2 site guarding Kyshtym 40 that shot down Powers's U-2. The Su-9 and MiG 19s that tried to intercept the plane came from the test site.
Powers and Gentry, Operation Overflight, 79, 80.
Pocock, Dragon Lady, 41–44. Article 360 was the first U-2C. The aircraft had been
