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104-10124-10040 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/1/1958)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch11229 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-1012410040 K S .. I SECRET 1 November 1958 SUBJECT: American C-118 Aircraft Downed in Soviet Azerbaijan 27 June 1958 by Soviet NIG-17's On 27 June 1958, a C!-118 cargo plane, assigned to the U, S. Air Force in Wiesbaden, was fired on and forced down near Gendarkh, Soviet Azerbaijan. The plane was carrying ni e U. S. airmen, 2 bThey are 1 03,'3,(3 assigned to Wiesbaden, Germany. The nine men were en route from Viesbaden to Teheran and Pakistan on a flight carry- ing cargo for CIA. ( I{ The plane, while en route to Teheran from Nicosia and as a result of bad weather and navigation error, went off its plotted course and crossed into Soviet Armenia. There it was intercepted and fired on by three NIG-17's and caught fire in the left wing. Five of the crew bailed out and the other four rode the aircraft down to a safe landing on a small airstrip at Genharkh in Soviet Azerbaijan. The crew members who had remained on the plane to its landing got out safely and the plane was burning fiercely when the crew last saw it. The part of the crew that parachuted was surrounded by Soviet peasants, some of whom beat and struck at the crew members. One of the men, 0 was taken by the mob to a telephone pole and narrowly escaped hanging efore being rescued by the Soviet military. and the remainder of the crew were turned over to the Sovie military, and after an overnight stay in a Soviet military garrison near Stepanakert were taken to a city believed to be Yevlakh, and then flown to Baku, Russia. There they underwent interrogation by Soviet intelligence officers, at least one of whom had served in the United States, as a Soviet Parchasing Comrmission eTployee 1943-45, and later in Canada in 1949-55 as First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy. This RIS officer, Vladimir Bourdine, later served in 1955 as a personal inter-preter for Khrushchev in a meeting with Prime Minister Nehru of Tndia. .Bcurdine interrogated t considerable lrngth d:Ing the period 30 June - 3 July 1958, while the crew was im- prismd in the MvD 6adquarters building in Baku. Following their individual interoati ons, the crew members were required to appear separately before a Commission of Soviet officials atthe Baku MVD Headquarters who questioned them about the border violation by the C-118 ai-rcraft, and recuested them to si n stater-ents attesting that they ,d a ll-Areatd ::e a:ical care by the SECRET

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