Harvey and Lee vs. Richard Case Nagell

[Phil Dragoo]

This combination of power elites did win its tremendous underground struggle against the peacemakers led by President Eisenhower when the U-2 reconnaissance spy-plane flown by Francis Gary Powers crash-landed in the heart of the Soviet Union only two weeks before the Paris summit conference. Powers' flight was a most unusual event. It was not part of the regularly scheduled series of routine U-2 operations. It was launched and directed by a small cell of inner elite for reasons which may never be possible for anyone to determine. If by any chance the thought had ever occurred to the four men who launched it that the failure of this relatively unimportant flight would completely wreck and vitiate all of the hopes and plans of the Eisenhower Crusade for Peace, they could not have chosen a more effective method or time to have done it. The very fact that what was done could have been done so easily according to a sinister plan, not an accident or Soviet act, serves only to fuel the thought that it might have been done on purpose. Such a simple thing as failure to supply the plane with sufficient hydrogen for the flight could have resulted, just as it did, in the certain flame-out of the engine and the subsequent failure of the mission - or success of the mission, depending upon the secret intent of those who dispatched it.

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"After a lifetime of Government service, President Eisenhower went to bed on the night of April 30th, 1960 secure in the belief that he, Macmillan of Britain, DeGaulle of France, and Khrushchev of the USSR would meet in Paris on May 16th in a summit conference that would seal agreements for peace throughout the world. Eisenhower was believed to be a powerful world figure whose dedication to this Crusade for Peace would succeed. But as he slept, fail-safe failed. Three or four moles in the Pentagon, doing the bidding of their masters, flashed coded signals across the world to send out a lone U-2 plane on one of the longest and most impossible missions ever attempted by a U-2 -- a 3,900-mile journey from Peshawar, Pakistan across the Soviet Union to Bodo, on the northern tip of Norway. These men's actions neatly bypassed the entire ultra-secret system and launched a plane that had been rigged to come down in the heart of the USSR on one of its most important holidays, May Day. Thus were destroyed the summit conference and Eisenhower's Crusade for Peace."
--Colonel Fletcher Prouty, The Sabotaging of the American Presidency

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Some people familiar with the U-2 incident believe the plane may have been downed due to sabotage. In 1977, Powers told a radio audience that he believed his U-2 had been brought down by a bomb placed on board. Shortly after making this statement, he was killed when his helicopter, used to report news for a Los Angeles television station, ran out of gas and crashed.

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Phil's footnote: Powers got Bogged down. Another chopper pilot was Paul Smith of WABC Chopper 7 who contributed to this 2nd [size=12]Plane Compilation:

[size=12]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oDHEIM1X1U

[size=12]Another chopper tragedy in 2003 took out General Lebed after which Vladimir Putin [size=12]had "more flexibil[size=12]ity"

I remember the feeling that day in [size=12]May 1960 by the floor model wood radio. Ike [size=12]had the building pulled out from under him.

This incident is so The Package. 1989 Gene Hackman Tommy Lee Jones. A Charles find which strikes a h[size=12]armonic to the looking glass Khrus[size=12]hchev switch [size=12]Red October 1964.

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