Mais de Joe Boisvert Adjunct Professor of History, Gulf Coast State College Encore Program, Director of Compassionate Care, Amherst First Baptist Church, NH, Stephen Minister, Instructor Noah's Ark, Panama City, Florida
Mais de Joe Boisvert Adjunct Professor of History, Gulf Coast State College Encore Program, Director of Compassionate Care, Amherst First Baptist Church, NH, Stephen Minister, Instructor Noah's Ark, Panama City, Florida (20)
A7 russian history the cold war spying from the air the costs
1. Spying From the
Air the Costs
Research by Dan Ligeski, S/Sgt.
USAF Intelligence Analysis
Presented by Joe Boisvert -
99th Combat Support Group,
Eighth Air Force, SAC
3. Top Secret Reconnaissance of the
Soviet Union
• The USSR was a "denied" area, that is to say,
travel within its territory for foreigners
• (or even its own citizenry) was severely
restricted. Obtaining reliable information about
the country or its military capabilities was
difficult, if not impossible, through conventional
intelligence methods.
• In response to this need, defense policy makers
established a national program of
reconnaissance, carried out by the U.S. Air Force
and the U.S. Navy.
4. Soviet Downing of Electronic
Intelligence Plane in 1958
• On September 2, 1958 the Soviet Air Radar
Forces where tracking a C-130 Surveillance
Plane flying in Turkey along the Soviet Border.
• It is believed the Soviets lured the plane into
Soviet Air Space with false radio beacon
signals and it was shot down by Soviet Jet
Fighters
• There where 17 US Airmen Aboard the
Intelligence Plane.
9. During the Cold War period of
1945-1977, a total of more than 40
U.S. reconnaissance
aircraft were shot down. The flights
were so secret that news of these
shoot-downs never
made it to newspapers... the crews
never received the honors due
them. Families could not
even receive details of their loved-
ones death.
10. Col. Yevgeny G. Pepelyayev: "...on 20 May 1951, during the period
of 15:08-15:58 hours, during an air battle with a group of F-86
Sabres I fired at an F-86 at a range of 500-600 meters. At the time
of my firing, I noticed shell strikes along the enemy's right wing,
after which the aircraft went from a bank to the left into a right
turn.”
Col Pepelvayea was a Soviet Ace and Shot Down 19 US Planes