What is his basic thesis on this? It sounds here www.prouty.org/sabotage.html like people who opposed Eisenhower's late-life peace campaign set Powers up to unwittingly stoke the Cold War back up to fever pitch.
I'd assume wikid's lying a lot here..... but I confess Prouty's jolliness concerns me. He and the interviewers have a great laugh over the fact that the Pentagon had a whole office dedicated to lying coverups.
Prouty was an intelligence agent during WW II. At the end of the war he was at a Navy base on Guam, where all the guns were in storage for an invasion of Japan.
Two ships set sail. He asked the Harbor Master where they were headed. One was going to Pyongyang, the other to Haiphong. They were sending them the guns to start the next two wars. Nice government, huh?
Aerial photography can only be gathered in day light and with clear skies.
Whenever a large high pressure was forecast to move into northwest Russia, they knew the U2s would be coming. Takeoff was Pakistan, landing in Norway. It was just a matter of time until it ended badly.