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104-10124-10040 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/01/1958)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72927 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10124-10040 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 1 November 1958 SUBJECT: American C-118 Aircraft Downed in Soviet Azerbaijan 27 June 1958 by Soviet MIG-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 three of whom 'j are assigned to this A ency. They are 3 o 3 The other six men were L i regular Air Force members assigned to Wiesbaden, Germany. The nine men were en route from Wiesbaden to Teheran and Pakistan on a flight carry- ing cargo for CIA. were planning to get off 2 4 the plane in Teheran had the plane remained. on course.) 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 MIG-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 Gen&rkh 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, CIA 03 enployee 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 Purchasing Comwission ewrployee 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 interpreter for Khrushchev in meeting with Prime ' 'ster Nehru of India. . Eurdine interrogated ' of CIA t considerable Lerscth durg the period 30 June - 3 July 1958, while the crew was in- pri. i.d in the :VD _e.adqurters building in Baku. Following their _ndividual interroga tions, the crew me-hers were required to appear separately before a Commission of Soviet officials atthe Baku I4VD Headquarters who questioned them about the border violation by the C-118 aircraft, and recuested them to si_ states -ents attestig that they .ad .m ..l td and e:: ;. :.e :Aiical care by the

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