Index

Abel, Hellen, 346–347

Abel, Rudolf Ivanovich (William Fischer), 345–349

Acheson, Dean, 86, 87, 178–179, 220, 249

Achilles, Theodore, 277

Adams, Sherman, 96, 98, 119, 148, 245, 251

Adana, U-2 base at, 20–22, 135–136, 139, 144–145, 235, 268

Barbara Powers in, 21–22, 38, 58

breakdown of coded transmissions in, 358–359

in State Department press release, 50–51

Adenauer, Konrad, 116–117, 177, 184, 226, 276

Paris Summit and, 278, 299

Ad Hoc Requirements Gommittee, 140

Adzhubei, Alexei, 52–53, 201, 218

Adzhubei, Nikita, 228

aerial reconnaissance:

cost and financing of, 82, 85, 89–90, 323

deaths and accidents in, 78, 81, 83–84, 110, 151, 368–369

origins of, 76–80

from passenger planes, 228–229

see also satellites; headings beginning with U-2

Afghanistan, 268

agriculture, Soviet 167, 169, 324, 325, 384

Aiken, George, 316

Air Force, U.S., 18–20, 81–82, 84, 135, 228–229, 260

balloon intelligence of, 77, 81, 111–112, 152

CIA’s relationship with, 106, 160

U-2 missions and, see U-2 pilots

Air Force One, 225, 229, 270–272, 303, 304

Air Review, 235

air sovereignty, 311–312

air-to-ground missiles, 360

Akalovsky, Alexander, 190, 284

Alaska, 147

Albania, guerrilla operations in, 87

Algeria, 136, 174, 221, 222

Ali, Salman, 256

Allen, George, 10, 33, 57, 107, 124, 247

Allen, Mary, 10

Alsop, Joseph, 5, 150, 154, 258, 326

Alsop; Stewart, 150, 154

American Dental Association, 191

American Society of Newspaper Editors, 72

Amory, Mary, 138

Amory, Robert, 37, 78, 79, 82, 85, 137, 138, 145, 311

on Allen Dulles, 125–126, 130

Baldwin’s lunch date with, 234

on Bissell, 155, 390–391

photointerpretation improved by, 143

Anderson, Gregory, 399–401

Anderson, Rudolph, 391

“Angel, the,” 92–93

see also U-2

Anti-Party Coup (1957), 171, 224, 385

AQUATONE project, 91–93

Arbenz Guzman, Jacobo, 88

Arlington National Cemetery, 401

arms control, 107, 212, 230–232, 287, 393

Eisenhower’s recommendations for, 72–73, 153–154

and Geneva Summit (1955), 102

Khrushchev’s views on, 198, 207, 231–232

verification problem and, 98–100

see also nuclear test ban treaty Army, U.S., 69

Army Aeronautic Corps, 76

Army Signal Corps, 34, 196, 247

Associated Press (AP), 61, 258

Athens, 20–21

atomic bomb, 36, 69, 77, 210, 223

China’s testing of, 385

de Gaulle’s request for, 222

Atomic Energy Commission, 93

Atoms for Peace, 72–73

Atsugi, U-2 base in, 46, 144–145, 235, 319–320

Austria, 94

Aviation Day (Soviet Union), 119, 120, 149–150

Aviation Week, 153, 395

Ayub Khan, Mohammed, 145–146, 268

B-29, 77, 78, 81

B-57 (Night Intruder), 78

Baker, James, 92

Baldwin, Hanson, 234, 235

ballistic missiles, 120

see also intercontinental ballistic missiles

balloon intelligence, 77, 81, 111–112, 152, 367

Baltika, 338

Bancroft, Mary, 128, 390

Barnes, Tracey, 87

Batu, Hamit, 256

Bay of Pigs invasion, 303, 351–352, 362, 387, 388–390

Bell spy plane project, 79

Beria, Lavrenti, 71, 168, 169, 181

Berlin, 94, 115, 305, 346–349

Khrushchev’s ultimatum on, 7, 162–163, 171–177, 184, 191, 205, 207, 211–212, 375, 378, 383

Paris Summit and, 226, 230, 277

Soviet capture of, 69, 185

Berlin, Isaiah, 154

Berlin Tunnel, 94, 114–116, 132, 367

Berlin Wall, 384

Bernard, Armand, 312

Big Four Summit, see Paris Summit

Biryuzov, S. S., 29

Bison long-range bombers, 149–150

Bissell, Richard, 84–90

Allen Dulles and, 84, 86–87, 88, 90, 105–106, 125, 140

Anglo-American joint U-2 project and, 146–147

background of, 86

Bay of Pigs and, 352, 362, 388–389

Berlin Tunnel and, 115

CORONA and, 323

on covert operations, 86, 88

as Deputy Director for Plans, 155

European U-2 bases arranged by, 112, 116–117

Goodpaster’s top-secret memorandum to, 10

John Eisenhower briefed by, 36

Kennedy and, 352, 389, 390–391

National Security Medal of, 390, 391

on Pakistani coup, 146

petition to resume U-2 flights by, 322–323

remoteness of, 17, 136

resignation of, 362

SR-71 Blackbird and, 323, 393

on U-2 advantages, 5, 364

U-2 cover and, 31, 32–33, 37–38, 51, 57, 110–111

on U-2 downing, 362–363

U-2 maiden flight and, 118–121, 123

on U-2 pilots, 14, 15

U-2 program and, 6, 9–10, 84, 89–90, 105–107, 124, 133, 135, 140, 142–148, 150, 160, 215, 233, 235–238, 241, 243–244, 359, 368

“Bissell Center, the,” 32

“Bissell’s Bird,” 92

Blake, George, 115

Bohlen, Avis, 122

Bohlen, Charles (Chip), 104, 121–122, 124, 145, 163, 239, 254, 310, 326, 338

in CIA action group, 243–244

at Paris Summit, 278–279, 283, 284, 285, 289, 290, 296

Bolshakov, Georgi, 374

Bomber Gap, 5, 119–120, 149–150, 366

bombers, 149–150, 355

Bonney, Walter, 50, 51–52

Book of Wrath, The (guest book), 261–262

Bowles, Chester, 344

Braden, Thomas, 87

Bradlee, Benjamin, 349, 360

Bradley, Omar, 77, 132

Brezhnev, Leonid, 228, 385

Bridges, Harry, 202

Bridges, Styles, 56

Brinkley, David, 228

Bross, John, 352, 357

Bruce, David, 132

Brugioni, Dino, 99

Bucharest, world socialist meeting in (1960), 324–325

Buchwald, Art, 48

Buckley, William F., Jr., 184, 395–396

Bukharin, Nikolai, 166

Bulganin, Nikolai, 100, 102–105, 107, 168

in Great Britain, 116, 117

Khrushchev opposed by, 170–171

Suez crisis and, 138, 139

Bull, Harold Roe (Pinky), 352

Bullis, Harry, 80

Burgess, Guy, 331

C-47, 322

C-118, 158–159

Cabell, Pearre, 82, 90, 116, 133, 140, 159, 243–244, 346

in U-2 hearings, 315, 370

Camp David, Md., 10–11, 33, 66

Khrushchev’s visit to, 7, 9, 33, 40, 190, 204–215, 230, 238, 299, 339, 371, 380

Macmillan at, 232

results of Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting at, 213–215

Camp Peary, Va. (the Farm), 108

Cannon, Clarence, 129

Cape Canaveral, 149

Capehart, Homer, 250, 316

Capp, Al, 91

Captive Nations resolution, 180

Carroll, Paul, 4

Carson, Jack, 10

Carter, Jimmy, 401

Castro, Fidel, 338, 389

Cavett, Dick, 398

Central Committee (Soviet Union), 167, 169, 170–171, 385

Bucharest meeting report to, 324–325

U-2 debate of, 40, 41

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 77, 82–83, 87–88, 128, 301

Air Force and, 106, 160

Allen Dulles’s testimony on, 128

anti-Communist progressives in, 87

Barbara Powers and, 329

Bay of Pigs and, 352, 362, 388–390

Berlin Tunnel of, 94, 114–117

Board of Inquiry of, 352–353, 356, 357, 360, 362, 397

in Chile, 314

covert operations of, 85–112, 130–132

Director’s Reserve Fund of, 89

Doolittle report on, 131–132

in Eastern Europe, 87, 138

Eisenhower’s views on, 131, 367

establishment of, 128

evaluations of, 131–133

FBI rivalry with, 260–261

foreign leaders briefed by, 276

headquarters of, 37, 121

Indonesian rebellion and, 151–152

in Iran, 145

Jaffe and, 329, 330, 336

Khrushchev’s criticism of, 195

lawyers hired by, 328–329

Nixon briefed by, 108

Nixon’s criticism of, 341

Office of Current Intelligence of, 266

Open Skies and, 98

photointerpretation by, 143–144

in popular culture, 395–396

Powers debriefed by, 350, 351–352

Powers’s death and, 401

Powers’s exchange for Abel and, 345–349

Powers’s indictment of, 398–399, 401

Powers’s memoirs and, 397–398

RB-47 proposal of, 323

on SA-2 Guidelines, 238

Stalin’s death and, 70, 71

State Department link with, 30–31

U-2 program and, see headings beginning with U-2

Watch Committee of, 137

Chamberlain, Neville, 104

Chancellor, John, 228

Chaplin, Charlie, 117

Cheka, 165

Chiang Kai-shek, 211

Chicago Convention on aviation (1944), 311–312

Chile, attempted coup in (1970), 314

China, People’s Republic of, 41, 53, 98, 115, 120, 240, 320

Eisenhower’s views on, 211

espionage in, 147–148, 392

India’s war with, 210

Japan’s relations with, 268–269

Khrushchev’s visit to, 218–219

as nuclear power, 209–210, 231, 232, 376, 377–378, 385, 392

Soviet relations with, 209–211, 218–219, 220, 232, 324, 375, 385

U-2 incident and, 250–251, 259, 324

U.S.-Soviet possible alliance against, 214

Chou En-lai, 211

Churchill, Winston, 68–69, 94, 174, 177, 221, 382

CIA, see Central Intelligence Agency

Cienfuegos, Soviet base at, 391

civil defense exercise, White House (1960), 45–47

Clay, Lucius, 113

Cleveland Plain Dealer, 234

Cliburn, Van, 212

Cline, Ray, 143, 148, 392

Cochran, Jacqueline, 293

codebreaking, 143, 199

Coffin, William Sloane, 87

Colby, William, 337

Cold War, 240, 241, 305–326

Eisenhower on new rules for, 130

“Great Thaw” in, 216–242

as stimulus to intelligence development, 76–77

U-2 affair and, 40, 266

“Collins, William,” 20, 108–109

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 329

Columbine III, 82, 100, 104

Communism:

capitalism vs., 219

CIA operations against, 87–88, 138, 151

in Indonesia, 151–152

in U.S., 194

Communist Party, Soviet, 166, 168

Central Committee of, see Central Committee

Twentieth Party Congress of (1956), 169–170

Twenty-first Party Congress of (1959), 210

“Compact of Fifth Avenue,” 327–328

Congress, U.S., 128, 172, 226, 237, 323, 399

Allen Dulles’s relations with, 129

Captive Nations resolution of, 180

as ignorant about U-2, 56, 57

U-2 briefing of, 255

see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

Cooper, Diana, 302

Copley, Jim, 80

CORONA spy satellite, 323

Cort, David, 396

Council on Foreign Relations, 129

Coutrelle, J. M. J., 76

Couve de Murville, Maurice, 284, 291, 295

covert action, 85–112, 130–132, 234

advantages of, 130–131

oversight of, 131–132

Crabbe, Lionel, 116, 117

Craft of Intelligence, The (Allen Dulles), 390

Cronkite, Walter, 228

Cuba, Bay of Pigs invasion of, 303, 351–352, 362, 387, 388–389

Cuban Missile Crisis, 374, 378, 381, 384, 391

Cumming, Hugh, 30–33, 46, 243–244, 246

Cunningham, James, 135, 145, 302

Curley, James Michael, 311

Cashing, Richard Cardinal, 184

Cushman, Robert, 178–179

Czechoslovakia, 267, 378

Daley, Richard, 303

Davis, Richard, 244

Dean, Sir Patrick, 62

Debré, Michel, 284

Defense Department, U.S., 82, 84, 322, 323, 391

Khrushchev’s allegations about, 61, 65

defense spending, 69, 172, 214

Eisenhower’s curbing of, 5, 153–154, 156, 366–367

U-2 incident and, 326, 327

de Gaulle, Charles, 7, 29, 48, 62, 68–69

background of, 221

CIA briefing of, 276

Eisenhower’s promises to, 184, 204

at Paris Summit, 273, 275–280, 283–285, 287–289, 291–298, 301, 303, 309–310, 393

Paris Summit delayed by, 220–223

Demaris, Ovid, 397

Democratic Advisory Council, 318

Democratic National Convention (1960), 327

détente, 54, 220, 230, 232, 325, 355–382

defined, 6n

Eisenhower’s qualifications for achievement of, 6–7

Mao’s denunciation of, 240

Paris Summit and, 277

U-2 incursions and, 239, 355–376

Dewey, Thomas E., 47

Dick Cavett Show, The, 398

Dillon, C. Douglas, 47, 50, 52, 178, 209, 215, 240, 241, 244, 311

Herter’s cable to, 23

at State Department meetings, 244, 246, 254

Thompson’s “most urgent” cable to (May 5, 1960), 53–54, 57, 65

U-2 hearings and, 314

disarmament, see arms control

Disneyland, 199, 200, 227

Dixon, Sir Pierson, 312

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 313, 379

“Doctors’ Plot,” 168, 169

Dr. Strangelove, 15

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak), 201

Dodd, Thomas, 291

Donovan, James, 346–348, 350

Donovan, William, 80, 127

Doolittle, James, 76, 131–132, 233

Douglas, James, 254

Douglas, Lewis, 130

Dryden, Hugh, 31, 110–111, 315

DuBridge, Lee, 73–74

Dulles, Allen, 9, 32, 60, 115, 116, 125–133, 251, 306, 322, 367

Air Force rivalry and, 105–106

background of, 126–128

Bay of Pigs and, 351–352, 388–390

Bissell and, 84, 86–87, 88, 90, 105–106, 125, 140

boasting of, 5, 94

CIA action group assembled by, 243–244

in civil defense exercise (1960), 45–47

Congress briefed by, 255

CORONA and, 323

death of, 390

in development of aerial reconnaissance, 79, 82, 84

Doolittle report on, 131–132

Eisenhower and, 128–129, 132–133, 387–388, 390

Eisenhower assured of U-2 security by, 36, 64–65, 118, 160, 271–272

Eisenhower’s warnings to, 5, 90

emotionalism of, 129, 132

Golden Rule Award of, 30

“Great Thaw” memo to, 218

on high-level reconnaissance, 312

kamikaze attack feared by, 320

Kennedy and, 339–340, 341, 352, 389

Khrushchev’s meeting with, 194, 215

Nixon briefed by, 108

Open Skies and, 99

personality of, 125–126

on pilot landing instructions, 404, 405

Powers and, 335, 351–352, 354, 356, 361

press release prepared by, 50–51

proposed resignation of, 243, 246

retirement of, 389–390

Secret Speech and, 170

Senate investigation feared by, 247

on Soviet missiles, 237

Stalin’s death and, 70

Suez crisis and, 136–139

in U-2 hearings, 315, 316, 356, 360

U-2 maiden voyage and, 121, 123

on U-2 pilots, 14, 28

U-2 program and, 9, 32, 50, 233, 234, 237, 241–242, 247, 266, 271–272, 356, 358, 404, 405

on U.S. protection of allies, 145

Dulles, Eleanor, 115, 126, 129

Dulles, John Foster, 80–84, 95–98, 139, 150–152, 178, 245, 251

Allen Dulles and, 126, 127, 130, 132, 140

Allen Dulles compared to, 126

anti-Communism of, 71–72, 97

background of, 96

balloon project and, 111, 112

death of, 176–177

development of aerial reconnaissance and, 81–83

Eisenhower’s relationship with, 96–97, 176

at Geneva Summit, 101, 102, 104, 105, 324

Geneva Summit as viewed by, 94, 95, 98

German issues and, 115, 116

Herter compared to, 246

Khrushchev’s views on, 117

Lodge and, 311

resignation of, 176–177, 245

Rockefeller and, 98, 99

on Soviet downing of planes, 8, 39

Soviet protest delivered to, 124

Suez crisis and, 136, 137

tic of, 96

U-2 disclosure recommended by, 148–149

“Dulles’s Folly,” 92–93

“Dump Nixon” movement (1956), 113–114, 179

Eames, Charles, 181

Eastern Europe, 102

Eisenhower’s views on, 87, 138

liberalization in, 170, 230

U-2 flights over, 119, 139

Eastman Kodak, 92

EC-130, 159

Economist, 338

Eden, Anthony, 103, 112, 116, 136, 146, 163

Egypt, Suez crisis and, 136–139

Ehrenburg, Ilya, 29, 126

Eisenhower, Anne, 10, 122–123, 209

Eisenhower, Barbara Thompson, 10, 64, 208–209

Eisenhower, David, 10, 122–123, 209

Eisenhower, Dwight D.:

Allen Dulles and, see Dulles, Allen

on April 30, 1960, 1–11

Berlin Tunnel and, 115–116

Berlin ultimatum and, 162–163, 172–173, 184, 191, 205, 207, 211–212, 375, 378

Carter’s views on, 401

China policy and, 210–211

CIA as viewed by, 131, 367

in civil defense exercise (1960), 45–47

command inadequacies attributed to, 49, 50, 61, 251, 280–281, 301

cooking of, 301–302

covert action and, 130–132, 234

Cross of Iron speech of, 72, 94

defense spending curbed by, 5, 153–154, 156, 366–367

de Gaulle and, 184, 204, 221, 222, 289

depression of, 69, 271, 282

diary of, 70, 72, 83, 137, 231, 311

diet of, 1–2

disillusionment of, about improving Soviet relations, 325–326

Doolittle report to, 131–132

Eastern Europe as viewed by, 87, 138

in election of 1952, 70, 86, 245, 293–294

in election of 1956, 113–114, 138–139, 245

forty-fourth anniversary of, 321

Foster Dulles’s death and, 176

garbled syntax of, 264

Gates’s interrogation and, 237

Geneva Summit and, 94, 98, 99, 100–105, 324

Gettysburg farm of, 113, 208–209, 217, 226, 321, 343

golf playing of, 33, 39, 49, 57–58, 82, 100, 107, 188, 205, 227, 247, 266, 307, 324

goodwill tours of, 224–225, 319–321

heart attack of, 1, 11, 48, 107–108, 113, 271

Herter and, 176, 245–246

as “hidden-hand President,” 130

honesty of, 221, 233, 252, 395

image problems of, 148–149, 154

indirect methods of, 114, 160–161

Indonesian rebellion and, 151–152

intestinal surgery of, 118–119, 122

Khrushchev and, see Khrushchev, Nikita S.

Knowland’s meeting with, 83–84

lying of, 252, 395, 401

McCone’s telephone conversation with (August 13, 1964), 403–405

memoirs of, 388, 403, 405

morning ritual of, 1–3

motion picture tastes of, 10–11

Nixon’s cables to, 182, 183

nuclear test ban treaty and, 231–233

at Paris Summit, 270–304, 376–380

popularity of, 214, 225, 303

Powers and, 17, 253, 270, 335

press conferences of, 151, 178, 184, 230, 236, 264–265

resignation wish of, 254

responsibility for espionage assumed by, 252–253, 254–255, 257–258, 373

retirement of, 298, 387–388

secret tapes made by, 83, 114

softness of, 220, 301, 307, 324

son’s relationship with, 36, 63–64, 271

Soviet trip cancelled for, 319

Soviet trip planned by, 7, 11, 40, 55, 57, 179, 212, 213, 217, 226–230, 263, 266, 274–275

Soviet U-2 protest as viewed by, 124

Soviet Union visited by (1945), 67–68, 185

speeches of, 38–39, 44, 72, 94, 227, 307–309, 321, 338

stag dinners of, 80, 183–184, 211

Stalin and, 67–68, 185

Stalin’s death and, 70–71

stroke of, 149, 264

Suez crisis and, 136–139

temper of, 65, 107, 290, 307

U-2 program and, see headings beginning with U-2

at UN, 72–73, 338

Zhukov’s friendship with, 67–68, 70, 101, 102, 206

Eisenhower, Edgar, 81

Eisenhower, John, 3, 10, 49, 55, 95, 108, 161, 178, 320, 321

Allen Dulles as viewed by, 387–388

children as viewed by, 209, 226

father’s relationship with, 63–64, 271

at Geneva Summit, 100–103

Goodpaster’s relationship with, 35–36

Herter and, 244, 246

Khrushchev’s death and, 387

Khrushchev’s U.S. visit and, 206, 208–209

movie for Khrushchev selected by, 11

at Paris Summit, 277, 280, 282, 283, 289–293, 296–297, 302, 303

in Soviet Union, 68

U-2 missions as viewed by, 8, 36, 64–65

as White House aide, 3, 4n, 35–36, 63

Eisenhower, Mamie, 1, 33, 36, 55, 80, 82, 193, 294, 296, 304, 343

Camp David redecorated by, 205

flying feared by, 10, 100

husband’s candidacy and, 293

husband’s correspondence with, 63–64, 69

husband’s health and, 107–108, 118, 149

Eisenhower, Mary Jean, 10, 33, 209

Eisenhower, Milton, 25, 96, 97, 107, 114, 204, 252

in Soviet Union, 179, 181, 183–184

Eisenhower, Susan, 10, 209

Eisenhower Dacha, 227

Elbrick, Burke, 303

election of 1952, 70, 86, 245, 293–294

election of 1956, 113–114, 138–139, 179, 245

election of 1960, 2–3, 179, 181, 225, 226, 327–328, 339–341

Soviet-American relations in, 7, 267, 339–340

U-2 and Summit collapse as factors in, 318–319, 355, 339

Elliott, William Yandell, 179, 183

Elson, Edward, 80

ER-1, 392

espionage:

balloon, 77, 81, 111–112, 152, 362

in China, 147–148, 392

diplomacy vs., 238

humans vs. technology in, 89, 144

Khrushchev’s boasting about, 198–199

Open Skies as, 103

in popular culture, 395–396

Powers’s views on, 17

press knowledge of, 56–57, 234–235

sabotage vs., 359

see also aerial reconnaissance; U-2 incident; U-2 missions

Esquire, 397

Ever Knee-Deep in Blood, Ever Trampling Corpses, 198

Ewald, William, 129

Face to Face with America, 218

Farley, James A., 303

“Farm, the” (Camp Peary, Va.), 108

Faulkner, William, 335

Faure, Edgar, 103

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 37, 75, 260–261, 331, 348, 396

Jaffe and, 329, 330, 337

“First Provisional Weather Reconnaissance Squadron,” 112

5412 Committee (Special Group), 132, 367–368

Flanner, Janet, 299

Fortune, 390

Foster, John W., 96

France, 86, 163

at Geneva Summit, 103, 104

as great power, 221–223

as nuclear power, 222, 233, 276

Suez crisis and, 136–139

in World War II, 221, 294–295

Frankel, Max, 251

freedom:

pornography vs., 200

press, 192, 197–198, 201–202

Freers, Edward, 216–217

Fulbright, J. William, 56, 302, 309, 313–317, 353

Fuller, Buckminster, 181

Gaither Commission, 231

Gaither Report, 149

Gaitskell, Hugh, 310

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 86, 197

Gardner, Trevor, 73–74, 79, 84, 89–90

Garst, Roswell, 202

Gates, Thomas, 31, 45, 154, 237, 251–252, 254, 266, 313, 322, 397

in civil defense exercise (1960), 45, 47

at Paris Summit, 281, 283, 284, 301

on pilot landing instructions, 404, 405

in U-2 hearings, 315–316

Geneva:

Big Four foreign ministers meeting in, 175–179

test ban talks in, 39–40, 231, 300, 321

Geneva Summit (1955), 94, 95, 98–105, 324

Gentry, Curt, 398

George Washington, 4

German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 138, 162–163, 170, 230

riots in, 119, 120

German peace treaty, proposals for, 7, 162, 172, 300, 305, 384

Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany), 93–94, 123

in NATO, 172

as nuclear power, 172, 376, 378

U-2 base in, 116–117, 121, 124, 144

Germany, Nazi, 166–167

Giebelstadt, 144

Glenn, John, 353, 354

Glennan, T. Keith, 51, 275, 307, 310

Glienicker Bridge, 348–349

Goldwater, Barry, 313, 328, 354, 361

Goodpaster, Andrew Jackson, 4, 10, 35–37, 64, 97, 101, 120, 123, 124, 133, 139, 140, 160, 161, 263–264, 266, 272, 320, 405

background of, 4

Berlin Tunnel and, 115–116

in CIA action group, 243–244

Eisenhower’s paternal relationship with, 4, 35, 48

Eisenhower’s reputation protected by, 48–49, 131

Eisenhower’s surgery and, 118–119

Herter statement supported by, 247–248

John Eisenhower’s relationship with, 35–36

Khrushchev’s U-2 speech as viewed by, 46–47

Khrushchev’s visit and 189, 207, 209

at Paris Summit, 277, 278, 282, 289, 292, 377

at State Department meetings, 244, 246–247

in U-2 cover-up, 46–51, 57

U-2 missions as viewed by, 8, 118, 119

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 394

Gosden, Freeman, 200

Gray, Gordon, 4, 47, 218, 272, 322

Great Britain, 234

at Geneva Summit, 103–104

intelligence of, 76–77, 78–79, 93–94, 116, 136

Royal Air Force of, 78, 138, 147, 310

secrecy consciousness of, 146

Suez crisis and, 136–139, 163

U-2 base in, 112, 116

in U-2 missions, 146–147

Grechko, Andrei, 55

Greenstein, Fred, 130

Griniev, Mikhail, 328, 329, 332–335

Gromyko, Andrei, 55, 117, 158, 175, 239, 260, 267, 344

at Paris Summit, 283, 292, 299

at UN, 312–313

U.S. visited by, 190, 200, 205, 206, 208, 211, 312–313

Gromyko, Lidiya, 200

Grotewohl, Otto, 305

ground-to-air missiles, see surface-to-air missiles

Gruenther, Alfred, 102

Guatemala, CIA operations in, 88

Gundersen, Oskar, 256

Gunther, John, 101

Hagerty, James, 46–50, 70, 108, 119, 148, 213, 335

background and personality of, 47

election of 1956 and, 113, 114

at Paris Summit, 283, 290, 292

U.S. advance parties led by, 227–228, 320

as White House press secretary, 46–50, 57, 247, 264–265, 271, 308

Haldeman, H. R., 179

Hall, Leonard, 114, 342

Halle, Louis, 221

Hammarskjold, Dag, 338

Hannah, Norman, 268

Harding, Warren G., 2

Hardy, Thomas, 174

Harriman, W. Averell, 197

Hayhayen, Reino, 346

Hazlett, Swede, 119, 122

Helms, Richard, 88, 143–144, 155, 236

in U-2 hearings, 314, 316

Henderson, Loy, 246

Herald Tribune (Paris), 48

Herter, Christian, 47, 176–177, 218, 222, 224, 230, 240, 244–249, 251–253, 260, 266, 269, 338, 370

background of, 244–245

Congress briefed by, 255

Khrushchev as viewed by, 260

Khrushchev’s U.S. visit and, 188, 190, 205, 206, 209, 211, 212

at Paris Summit, 274, 277, 278, 281–286, 292, 296, 302

physical handicap of, 176, 244–246

State Department appointment of, 176, 245–246

Turkish coup and, 313

in The U-2 Affair (NBC News documentary), 342

U-2 statements of, 247–249, 254, 257–258

U-2 testimony of, 314, 316

High Point (Va.), 45, 46–47

Hirohito, emperor of Japan, 320

Hitler, Adolf, 76, 138, 166, 170

Hollywood, 199–200

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 397–398

Hoover, Herbert, Jr., 139

Hoover, J. Edgar, 127, 194, 348, 389

Houghton, Amory, 273–274, 277, 280, 298, 301–302

Houghton, Laura, 301

House of Representatives, U.S., 56, 68, 129, 245, 395

Houston, Lawrence, 155–156, 346, 352

Hoyer-Millar, Sir Frederick, 284

HTAUTOMAT, 143, 178

Hull, Cordell, 96

Humphrey, George, 19

Humphrey, Hubert H., 250

Hungarian rebellion (1956), 138, 170, 312

Hunt, Howard, 390

Huntley, Chet, 342

Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 335

Hycon, 92

hydrogen bomb, 61, 62

Hyland, William, 384

ICBMs, see intercontinental ballistic missiles

India, 210, 225

Indonesian rebellion (1958), 151–152

inflation, 153–154

intelligence, see aerial reconnaissance; Central Intelligence Agency; espionage; U-2 incident; U-2 missions

intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), 150, 152–153, 173, 233, 238

Allen Dulles’s predictions for, 237

camouflaging of, 322

first operational, 241–242, 341–342

launch sites of, 237–238

international law, air sovereignty in, 311–312, 363

Iran, 88, 145

Israel, Suez crisis and, 136–139

Ivanov, Valentin, 249

Izvestia, 201, 291, 297, 319–320

Jackson, C. D., 95, 97

Jackson, Henry, 148

Jaffe, Sam (nephew), 329–331, 336–337

Jaffe, Sam (uncle), 329

Japan, 191, 227, 268–269

U-2 base in, 46, 144–145, 235, 319–320

U.S. security treaty with, 269, 319

Johnson, Althea, 91

Johnson, Kelly, 89–90, 105, 253, 356, 361

as aircraft designer, 79, 91–93, 253–254, 323, 364, 393

Powers and, 350, 396, 398, 400

Johnson, Lyndon B., 149, 236, 302, 319, 390

Johnson, Priscilla, 52–53, 61

Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 8, 34, 77–78, 155, 173, 322, 368

Bay of Pigs and, 389

Code Three alert declared by, 281

Kadar, Janos, 338

Kaganovich, Lazar, 165, 170–171

Kalb, Marvin, 122, 228

Kamchatka Peninsula, 147

Kamenev, Lev, 166

Kapustin Yar, 78, 147, 155

Kennan, George F., 313, 379

Kennedy, John F., 80, 291, 303, 311, 364, 378, 384, 387

Allen Dulles and, 339–340, 341, 352, 389

Bay of Pigs and, 303, 351–352, 389–390

Bissell and, 352, 389, 390–391

Eisenhower’s views on, 2

in election of 1960, 2, 225, 267, 302, 318–319, 327, 339–341

inauguration of, 343

Khrushchev’s meetings with, 195, 344–345, 383

Powers snubbed by, 353

prisoner exchange and, 346, 348, 349–350

at Vienna meeting, 344–345, 383

Kennedy, Joseph P., 132

Kennedy, Robert F., 353, 389, 390–391

Kerensky, Alexander, 211

KGB, 169, 171, 195, 215, 219, 252, 377, 385

Abel and, 345–346, 349

American threat and, 230

Jaffe and, 336, 337

U-2 missions and, 235, 358–359

KGIL Radio, 399

Khrushchev, Leonid, 165, 167

Khrushchev, Nikita S.:

Allen Dulles’s views on, 30

appearance of, 188, 197, 199, 330

Azerbaidzhan speech of, 241

background and political rise of, 164–171

Berlin ultimatum of, 7, 162–163, 171–177, 184, 191, 205, 207, 211–212, 375, 378, 383

at Bucharest meeting (1960), 324–325

as Butcher of Hungary, 170, 184, 200

China visited by, 218–219

death of, 387

decline in power of, 323–325, 384–385

disappearance from public view of, 239–240

in East Berlin, 305

Eisenhower as viewed by, 7, 40–41, 44, 61, 117, 185, 208, 216–217, 220, 226, 259, 263, 300–301, 306–307, 323–324, 386

Eisenhower invited to Moscow by (1961), 383–384

Eisenhower’s accidental invitation to, 177–178

Eisenhower’s apology and, 274–277, 287–289, 292, 295, 297

Eisenhower’s correspondence with, 226–227, 228, 240

Eisenhower’s first meeting with, 68, 185

Eisenhower’s planned gift to, 228

Eisenhower’s views on, 163, 184, 260, 308–309, 380

election of 1960 and, 225, 340–341

English of, 213, 216

estates of, 208

foreigners’ impressions of, 30, 163, 164, 174, 182, 184, 197, 199, 276

at Geneva Summit (1955), 100–105, 163

Geneva test ban talks and, 231

Gorky Park speech of, 262–263, 266, 274, 280

in Great Britain, 116, 117–118

health of, 206–207

Herter and, 260, 262

homecoming speech of (1959), 216–217, 218

“inferiority complex” of, 208

Jaffe and, 330

Kennedy and, 195, 225, 344–345, 383

Lodge’s Moscow visit with, 225–226

Macmillan and, 173–175, 338–339

Malenkov and, 168–171

marriages of, 165

on May Day (1960), 23–24, 29

memoirs of, 386–387

missile claims of, 152

movies preferred by, 205

near immigration of, 198

near overthrow of, in Anti-Party Coup (1957), 29, 170–171, 325

as Nikita the Corn-Grower, 122, 202, 217

Nixon and, 178–183, 191–192, 194, 196, 206

Nixon’s views on, 182, 208, 337

Open Skies rejected by, 103, 117–118, 158

Palais de Chaillot speech of, 299–300

at Paris Summit, 272–301, 305–307, 309–310, 376–380, 393

Paris Summit invitation of, 222

political fears and risks of, 29, 40–41, 185, 223, 229–230, 306

popularity of, 216–218

Powers’s capture announced by, 58–66, 373

as propagandist and agitator, 40–45

psychological profiles of, 163

Rapacki Plan of, 378

retirement of, 386–387

Secret Speech of, 169–170, 171, 194, 230

Soviet power blocs antagonized by, 219–220, 224, 323–325, 374, 385

Stalin and, 165–168

Stalin denounced by, 169–170

Stalin’s death and, 71

State Department U-2 statements and, 256, 259

Supreme Soviet speeches of, 43–47, 53, 54, 58–61, 372–373

technical advisers withdrawn from

China by, 324

“toothache” of, 175, 191

U-2 flights as viewed by, 123, 238–239, 371–372, 381

at UN, 198, 207, 337–339

underclass image of, 163–164

U.S. television speech of, 212, 213

U.S. visited by, 7, 9, 33, 40, 44, 65, 184–218, 230, 238, 299, 337–339, 371, 380

at Vienna meeting with Kennedy, 344–345, 383

Virgin Lands idea of, 325

“We will bury you” pledge of, 184, 195, 200

in World War II, 166–167

Khrushchev, Sergei, 201, 387

Khrushcheva, Julia, 165, 201

Khrushcheva, Nina Petrovna, 165, 188, 199, 201, 223, 228

Khrushcheva, Rada, 201

Khrushcheva, Yelena, 331

Khrushchevland, 227

Khrushchev Remembers, 386

Kiev, 167, 227

Killian, James, 74, 79–80, 81–83, 93, 119, 123, 149, 152, 366

on U-2 security, 369–370

Killian Commission (Technological Capabilities Panel), 74–76, 79–80, 366

Kipling, Rudyard, 13, 174

Kirilenko, Alexander, 386

Kirkpatrick, Lyman, 87

Kirov, Sergei, 166

Kishi, Nobusuke, 144, 268–269, 319–320

Kissinger, Henry, 2, 97, 379, 381

Kistiakowsky, George, 45, 46, 57, 234, 241, 326

diary of, 208, 237, 259–260

on Missile Gap, 237

on U-2 incident, 259–260

Kitchen Debate, 181

KNBC Television, 400

Knowland, William, 83–84

Kohler, Foy, 190, 244, 246, 254

at Paris Summit, 278, 283

Koht, Paul, 268

Korea, 98, 319

Korean Airlines incident (1983), 394, 395

Korean War, 14, 18–19, 36, 71, 381

Kosygin, Alexei, 385

Kozlov, Frol, 177, 178, 182, 223

Bucharest report delivered by, 324–325

Krock, Arthur, 234

Kruminsh, Zigurd, 343–344

Kubrick, Stanley, 15

Kurile Islands, 322

labor unions, 202

Lachaise, Gaston, 181

Lakenheath (SAC base), 112

Land, Edwin, 75–76, 79–80, 81–83, 89, 119

Land, Jennifer, 75

Lansing, Robert, 96, 127

Latin America, U.S. image in, 88

Lausche, Frank, 316

Leacocos, John, 234

leaks, 48, 90

Bay of Pigs and, 389

U-2 program and, 37, 234–235, 252

Lehman, Herbert, 197

LeMay, Curtis, 73, 82–83, 105–107, 119, 150

Lend-Lease, 167, 209

Lenin, V. I., 73, 127, 165, 169, 171, 219, 239, 299, 324

Leningrad, 121, 133, 224, 227

Lenin Sports Palace, 216–217

LeVier, Tony, 93, 105, 107

Life, 329, 356, 386

Lincoln, Abraham, 76

Lippmann, Walter, 234, 245, 251, 258, 281, 324

Literaturnaya Gazeta, 202, 291

“Little Kremlin, the,” 40

Lloyd, Selwyn, 277, 283, 284, 294, 310

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 79, 90–93, 111, 350, 392, 396–397, 398

Lodge, Henry Cabot:

background of, 310–311

Eisenhower drafted to run for President by, 245, 293

Khrushchev’s U.S. visit and, 188, 190, 196, 198–201, 203–204, 215

Soviet Union visited by, 225–226

at UN, 310–313

London Daily Mail, 250

London Daily Mirror, 250

London Daily Sketch, 259

London Daily Telegraph, 250

London Evening Standard, 218–219

London News Chronicle, 250

London Sunday Express, 250

“Long Live Leninism” (Mao Tse-tung), 240

Lop Nor, 148

Los Angeles, Calif., 198–201

Los Angeles Times, 61

Lovelace Clinic, 109

Lovett, Robert, 86, 132

Lowe, Thaddeus, 75

Lowry Air Force Base, 107, 108, 281

Lubyanka Prison, 31–32, 34, 38, 58, 269–270, 317–318, 328, 331, 333

Lundahl, Arthur, 143–144, 155, 241–242, 255

at Paris Summit, 276, 302

MacArthur, Douglas, 68

MacArthur, Douglas, II, 320

McCann, Kevin, 48

McCarthy, Joseph R., 48, 94, 131, 180, 264

McCloy, John J., 383

McCone, John, 352, 353, 356–357, 360, 403–405

McElroy, Neil, 152–154, 172–173, 176

McMahon Act, 222

Macmillan, Harold, 7, 29, 62, 96, 103–104, 146–147, 179, 369

background and personality of, 174

at Camp David, 232

de Gaulle and, 221–222

diary of, 174, 175, 232, 279, 280, 282, 292, 293

Eisenhower’s promises to, 184, 204

Khrushchev’s ultimatum and, 173–176

Khrushchev’s U.S. visit resented by, 184

nuclear attack feared by, 175

at Paris Summit, 273, 278–280, 282–287, 289, 291–298, 300, 301, 309–310

U-2 revelations as viewed by, 253, 259, 374

at UN, 338–339

McNamara, Robert, 391

Macomber, William, 177

Majors, Lee, 400

Makinen, Marvin, 347–348

Malenkov, Georgi, 71, 72, 168–171

Malik, Jacob, 53–54, 117

Malinovsky, Rodion, 23–24

at Paris Summit, 275, 283–285, 294–295, 299

Manchester Guardian, 351

Mansfield, Mike, 56, 131, 309, 313, 395

Mao Tse-tung, 209–211, 219, 220, 240, 392

Moscow invitation refused by, 274

U-2 incident and, 259

Marco Polo If You Can (Buckley, Jr.), 395–396

Marines, U.S., 22, 144, 236, 320

Marshall, S. L. A., 335

Marshall Plan, 86, 245

Martini, Steve, 57

Marx, Karl, 219, 236

Marxism, U.S. fear of, 191

Matsu, 320

May Day (1960), Soviet celebration of, 23–24, 27, 28–29, 42, 43–44

May Day flight, see U-2 incident

Meany, George, 57

Medvedev, Roy, 164, 169

Melekh, Igor, 344, 346

Menderes, Adnan, 135, 313

Mendès-France, Pierre, 80

Menshikov, Mikhail, 159, 188, 190, 193, 212, 218, 234, 344

as “Smiling Mike,” 203

Stevenson’s invitation from, 225

Merchant, Livingston, 243, 244, 277, 278, 283

Mercury, Project, 109, 142, 315

Meyer, Cord, 85

Middle East, 136–139

Middle Way, The (Macmillan), 174

Mikoyan, Anastas, 42, 223, 240

Military Affairs, 357–358

Miller, Arthur, 199

Millikan, Max, 98

Minot, Jean, 294

Mirza, Iskander, 146

Missile Gap, 5, 150, 153–154, 237, 323, 327, 342, 366–367

in election of 1960, 339–340, 341

Khrushchev’s ultimatum and, 172–173

missiles, 120, 182, 223, 360

in Cuba, 374, 378, 381, 384, 391

Khrushchev’s refusal to tour sites of, 203

launch points of, 182–183

Soviet testing of, 78, 147, 155

surface-to-air, 25, 78, 160, 182–183, 238, 357, 359, 362

see also intercontinental ballistic missiles

Moaney, John, 1–3, 33

Model Airplane News, 234

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, 88, 145, 199, 225, 267, 268

Mollet, Guy, 136

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 17, 94, 112, 122, 168

Khrushchev opposed by, 170–171

Khrushchev’s attack on, 169–170

Monroe, Marilyn, 199

Montgomery, Bernard, 68, 82

Montgomery, Robert, 308

Moos, Malcolm, 307

Morris, James, 351

Morse, Wayne, 129

Moscow:

American Embassy in, 121–122, 229, 236

American Exhibition in, 178, 180, 181, 208

Eisenhower itinerary in, 227

Khrushchev’s return to, from U.S., 216–217

May Day celebration in, 23, 28–29

“second American Exhibition” in, 261–263, 300, 317

U-2 flight over, 121, 133

movies, 10–11, 15, 205

Khrushchev in, 217–218

Murphy, Charles, 389–390

Murphy, Joseph, 348–349, 350

Murphy, Robert, 159, 178, 253, 311

Nairn, Sardar Mohammed, 268

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 126, 136, 138

Nathan, James, 357–358

Nation, 259, 396

National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), 110–111, 112, 133

see also National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 5, 8, 31, 275, 315, 392, 398

cover story released by, 39, 47, 49–52, 372–373

National Intelligence Estimate, 150

National Press Club, 194–195, 249

National Reconnaissance Office, 392

national security:

economics of, 153; see also defense spending

press protection of, 57, 234–235

scientific aspects of, 73–74

National Security Agency (NSA), 30, 37, 123, 142, 158–159

on U-2 downing, 356–357

National Security Council (NSC), 45, 255, 307, 368

National War College, 249

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 94, 116, 135, 138, 219, 221

Navy, U.S., 95, 106

intelligence efforts of, 77, 78

Nazi Germany, 166–167

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 199

New Republic, 249, 353

Newsday, 351

Newsweek, 203, 218, 304, 349

New York, Khrushchev’s visits to, 197–198, 337–339

New York Economic Club, 197–198

New Yorker, 104

New York Herald Tribune, 2, 115, 251, 258, 293, 310, 351

New York Mirror, 261

New York Times, 2, 47, 56–57, 97, 159, 170, 214, 273, 335

intelligence leaks to, 234

Khrushchev’s visit in, 202, 206

Paris Summit in, 291, 297

Stalin’s death in, 71

U-2 incident in, 250, 251, 258, 269, 270, 271

U-2 story concealed by, 234, 235

Nielsen, Aksel, 107

Nilsen, Selmer, 358–359

Nitze, Paul, 86

Niven, David, 199

Nixon, Pat, 25, 180

Nixon, Richard M., 104, 190, 191–192, 195, 240, 344

Allen Dulles and, 389, 390

at Camp David, 207–208

defense views of, 154

drinking of, 183

Eisenhower’s heart attack and, 108

Eisenhower’s views on, 2–3, 113–114, 184

in election of 1956, 113–114, 245

in election of 1960, 2–3, 179, 181, 225, 226, 319, 327–328, 340–341, 399

in election of 1968, 399

Herter and, 244, 254–255

Khruschev and, 178–183, 191–192, 194, 196, 206

Kitchen Debate and, 181

Paris Summit and, 240, 291

Soviet Union visited by, 25, 178–184, 206, 207–208

The U-2 Affair (NBC News documentary) and, 342

U-2 incident and, 254–255, 280–281

Norstad, Lauris, 293

North American Rockwell Management Club, 399

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 94, 116, 135, 138, 219, 221

Norway, 4, 13, 14, 30, 60, 145, 256

Soviet threats to, 267–268

Nosenko, Yuri, 337

NSA, see National Security Agency

nuclear test ban treaty, 7, 231–233, 376, 379

Geneva talks on, 39–10, 231, 300, 321

on-site inspections and, 232

partial, 385

nuclear testing, atmospheric, 384

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 128, 346

Official Secrets Act, 234

Okinawa, 319, 320

Open Skies, 98–100, 102–105, 107, 111, 249, 366, 393

Khrushchev’s rejection of, 103, 117–118, 158

Paris Summit and, 265, 287

Operation Overflight (Powers), 361, 398

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 74

Ordzhonikidze, 116

OSS (Office of Strategic Services), 128, 346

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 236

Pakistan, 4, 10, 11, 59, 60, 145–146

Soviet threats to, 267–268

see also Peshawar airfield

Paris Presse, 250

Paris Summit (1960), 7, 270–304, 374

Berlin question and, 226, 230, 277

de Gaulle’s delay of, 220–223

Ehrenburg’s views on, 29

Eisenhower’s apology and, 274–277, 287–289, 292, 295, 297

Eisenhower’s speech on, 307–309

Eisenhower’s statement at, 286

election of 1960 and, 318–319

first day of, 282–292

Gates’s prediction of collapse of, 281

in Khrushchev’s memoirs, 386

Khrushchev’s military cuts and, 224

Khrushchev’s speech on, 306–307

Khrushchev’s statement at, 284–286

Khrushchev’s terms for, 276

Macmillan’s fears about, 62

Open Skies and, 265, 287

proposed reconvening of, 305–306

proposed U.S. boycott of, 56

Senate invstigation of failure of, 313–317

Thompson’s toast to, 223

U-2 as threat to, 9, 29, 32, 38, 40, 43–44, 51, 56, 62, 63, 65, 239, 258, 265–267, 274, 277, 308

without U-2 crisis, 376–380

Parker, Alexander, 329, 330, 336

Parker, Mrs. Alexander, 329, 330

Passport Agency, U.S., 117

Pasternak, Boris, 201

Patton, George S., 68, 69

PBCFIA (President’s Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities), 132–133, 161, 233, 367–368

Pearson, Drew, 100

Pennsylvania Railroad, 196–197

People’s Daily (Peking), 240

perjury, 314–315, 395

Peshawar airfield, 13–17, 145–146, 147, 235, 238, 256, 268

Philby, Kim, 78

Philippines, 319

photointerpretation, 142–144

Pickens, Slim, 15

Pierpoint, Robert, 57

Pittsburgh, Pa., 202–203

Plesetsk, 242, 341

Poland, 138, 170, 313, 378

in World War II, 166

Polaris submarine, 106

Polaroid Corporation, 75

Polish Home Army, 87

political polls, 148, 303

Pope, Allen, 151, 152, 367

Popov, Pyotr, 236

Portugal, Eisenhower’s visit to, 297–298, 303

Poulson, Norris, 200, 203

Powers, Barbara Moore, 13, 17, 19–22 134, 260

in Athens, 20–21

committed to psychiatric institution, 345

drinking of, 22, 330, 336, 396

husband hated by, 330, 331

husband’s correspondence with, 317–318, 344

husband’s disappearance and, 38, 58.

husband’s release and, 350

Jaffe and, 330–331, 337

in Moscow, 329, 330–331, 334–336

pregnancy and miscarriage of, 21

press conference of, 261

sexuality of, 330, 331, 336, 396

Powers, Francis Gary, 13–34, 55, 108, 110, 235, 260, 344–363, 396–401

Air Force study of, 18

appearance of, 17, 18, 399

background and personality of, 17–20

back pay of, 336, 351, 353, 360

Board of Inquiry report on, 352–353, 357, 360, 362

captivity routine of, 269–270

capture of, 27–28, 30, 243–244

CIA debriefing of, 350, 351–352

criminal indictment of, 328

death of, 400–401

defection considered for, 255, 259–260, 315, 356–357, 360

diary of, 344, 345

divorce of, 331, 344, 396

election of 1960 and, 341

first Soviet flight of, 139

flight log of, 22–23

Khrushchev’s announcement of capture of, 58–66, 373

Kruminsh and, 343–344

lectures of, 398–399

in Lubyanka Prison, 31–32, 34, 38, 58, 269–270, 317–318, 328, 331, 333

Malik’s revelations about, 53–54

marriages of, 19, 396

memoirs of, 360, 361, 397–398, 400, 405

personal identification carried by, 16

public opinion and, 335–336, 351

regrets for “crime” expressed by, 328, 332, 333, 351

release of, 344–350, 359–360

Senate questioning of, 353–354

shooting down of, 25–27, 332–333

Soviet questioning of, 30, 31–32, 53, 58, 269–270, 333

Suez crisis and, 137

takeoff of, 16–17, 22

trial of, 328–336, 351, 352–353

in Vladimir Prison, 343–344, 345

welcome home of, 396

on worries of U-2 pilots, 159–160

Powers, Francis Gary, II, 397, 400

Powers, Ida, 329, 330–331, 335, 336, 350

Powers, Jessica, 270, 330, 336

Powers, Oliver, 18, 39, 61, 133–134, 350

Khrushchev’s correspondence with, 253

in Moscow, 329, 330–331, 334, 336

Powers, Sue Downey, 396–397, 399, 401

Powers, Thomas, 88–89

Prague, Soviet capture of, 69

Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, 89, 92, 110, 362

Pravda, 23, 25, 27, 29, 39, 216, 218, 240, 306, 307, 320, 324, 339

Khrushchev denounced in, 385

Khrushchev’s death in, 387

on Khrushchev’s visit to U.S., 189–190, 201–202, 204

President’s Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities (PBCFIA), 132–133, 161, 233, 367–368

Presidium, 170–171, 223, 261, 274, 385

press:

Eisenhower’s views on, 2, 48, 234

freedom of, 192, 197–198, 201–202

Khrushchev’s U-2 announcement and, 46–50

restraint of, 234–235

U-2 cover story and, 39, 248–249

see also specific publications

Prettyman, E. Barrett, 352, 357

Prince’s Islands, 204

Project Mercury, 109, 142, 315

Pryor, Frederick, 347–349

public opinion:

Eisenhower’s distrust of, 374–375

about Powers, 335–336, 351

U.S.-Soviet relations and, 177

Putt, Donald, 82, 90

Quantico Marine Base, 98, 322

Quarles, Donald, 173

Quemoy, 320

Radford, Arthur, 95, 102

Radio Moscow, 70, 227, 291, 335, 343

Radio Peking, 320

Radium Springs Motel, 20, 108, 401

Rand Corporation, 73

Rapacki Plan, 378

Rayburn, Sam, 302, 309

RB-47, 152, 323, 338

Soviet downing of, 321–322, 395

Soviet release of fliers from, 341, 343, 344, 353

“R.B.A.F.” (Richard Bissell’s Air Force), 147

Reagan, Ronald, 199, 394

reconnaissance, see aerial reconnaissance; espionage; satellites; headings beginning with U-2

Red River Dave, 335–336

Reeves, Jay, 330

Republican National Committee, 303

Republican party, U.S., 113–114, 327–328

Reston, James, 56–57, 228, 234, 251, 258, 271, 297

Reuther, Walter, 99, 202

Rickover, Hyman, 179, 182.

Right Stuff, The (Wolfe), 109

Ritland, Osmond, 89

Roberts, Chalmers, 201, 234

Roberts, Charles, 50

Robeson, Paul, 117, 198

Robinson, William, 293

Rockefeller, John D., 197

Rockefeller, Nelson, 4, 97–98, 198, 220

Eisenhower policies critiqued by, 5, 327–328

in election of 1960, 3, 225, 327–328

Foster Dulles and, 98, 99

at Geneva Summit, 102–103

Rogers, Frank, 329, 330, 336

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 198

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 97, 127, 180, 184, 198, 244, 340

Eisenhower compared to, 2, 64, 68, 264

World War II and, 68, 204, 221, 228n

Roosevelt, James, 64

Roosevelt, Theodore, 86

Ross, Thomas, 369

Rovere, Richard, 104

Royal Air Force, 78, 138, 147, 310

‘R” planes, 93

Rudenko, Roman A., 120, 124–125, 332–334

Rusk, Dean, 197, 344, 346

Russell, Richard, 129, 195, 353

Russian Revolution, 127, 164–165, 299

SA-2 Guideline missiles, 25, 160, 238, 357, 359, 362

Safire, William, 181

Sagdeev, Roald, 394

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 250

Sakhalin Island, 391, 394

Salazar, Antonio, 303

Salinger, Pierre, 350

Salisbury, Harrison, 42, 206, 228, 320–321

SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), 393

Saltonstall, Leverett, 354

SAMs, see surface-to-air missiles

San Francisco, Calif., 201, 202

San Francisco Chronicle, 250

Sarnoff, David, 197, 342

satellites, 322

CIA-Air Force attempts at launching of, 323

CORONA, 323

de Gaulle on, 287–288

Sputnik, 148–150, 156, 275, 288, 312, 365, 393

spy, 392–393

U-2 compared to, 363–364

SAVAK, 145

Scherer, Ray, 49–50, 342

Schischkin, Ivan, 347–349

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 319

Science Advisory Committee, 73–74

Scott, Hugh, 250

Scoville, Herbert, 46–47

“Second Provisional Weather Squadron,” 135

Senate, U.S., 56, 83, 247, 302

Appropriations Committee of, 56

Armed Services Committee of, 56, 129, 353

Foreign Relations Committee of, 56, 129, 145, 195, 224, 339, 353, 356, 360, 370, 395

Powers questioned by, 353–354

Select Committee on Intelligence of, 357, 395

U-2 investigation of, 313–317, 353, 356, 360

Serov, Ivan, 171

Sevastopol, 226

Shah of Iran, 88, 145, 199, 225, 267, 268

Sheen, Martin, 400

Shelton, William, 59

Shevchenko, Arkady, 54

Sholokhov, Mikhail, 201, 291

Shyrock, Richard, 384

Sinatra, Frank, 7, 199

Sino-Soviet relations, strains in, 209–211, 218–219, 220, 232, 324, 375, 385

Skunk Works, 91, 92, 394n, 400

Smith, Gerard, 393

Smith, Merriman, 57, 80, 320

Smith, Stephen and Jean, 349

Smith, Walter Bedell, 96, 128–129

Snider, Sammy, 46, 108, 110, 133–134, 136, 141–142, 401

on problems with Powers plane, 360–361

Snyder, Howard, 107–108

Snyder, Richard, 331

socialism, Khrushchev’s views on, 170, 195

Soldatov, Aleksandr, 190

Sorensen, Theodore, 339

Sothern, Ann, 10

Soviet-American relations, 67–73, 192

Cuban Missile Crisis and, 374, 378, 381, 384, 391

Eisenhower’s planned Soviet trip and, 7, 11, 40, 55, 57, 179, 212, 213, 217, 226–230, 263, 266, 274–275

Eisenhower’s threat to break relations and, 321–322

Foster Dulles’s views on, 97

Geneva arms control talks and, 39–40, 231, 300, 321, 393

“hot line” and, 384–385

Lodge’s visit and, 225–226

misperceptions in, 380–382

in 1953, 70–73

Nixon’s trip and, 25, 178–184, 206, 207–208

“peaceful coexistence” in, 179, 185, 195, 198; 219, 220, 266, 298

SR-71 Blackbird and, 393–394

under Stalin, 67–70

trust in, 69, 190–191, 192

wheat sales and, 385

see also Cold War; détente; Geneva Summit (1955); Paris Summit

Soviet Union:

agriculture in, 167, 169, 324, 325, 384

“American Spring” in (1960), 229

Anti-Party Coup in, 171, 224, 385

balloons shot down by, 111–112

China’s relations with, 209–211, 218–219, 220, 232, 324, 375, 385

German invasion of, 166–167

Great Purge in, 31, 165–166

humor in, 202

insecurity of, 157–158, 172

Macmillan’s visit to, 174–175

military cuts in, 223–224

reforms in, 169–171, 219

secrecy of, 75–76, 81, 157, 274, 363, 365, 380–381, 393

Suez crisis and, 138–139

Twining group in, 119–120

in World War II, 67–69, 129, 166–167, 209, 299, 387

see also Moscow

Soviet Writers’ Union, 201

space flight, 31, 148–150, 188–189, 195

Spaso House, 121–122, 183, 227, 313

Spectrum (Wise), 369

Speier, Hans, 98

Sputnik, 148–150, 156, 275, 288, 312, 365, 393

Spy Wife (Barbara Powers), 396

SR-71 Blackbird, 323, 393–394

SS-6, 152

Stalin, Joseph, 42, 70, 78, 94, 165–168, 171, 182, 206, 214, 219, 257, 386

death of, 70–71, 168, 169

Eisenhower’s meeting with, 67–68, 185

Khrushchev compared to, 325

Khrushchev’s indictment of, 169–170

movies and, 205

paranoia of, 167–168

Stalingrad, Battle of, 167, 299, 387

Stassen, Harold, 117–118, 245

State Department, U.S., 78, 158, 159, 359

CIA rivalry with, 87, 132

Foster Dulles’s appointment to, 96

Intelligence and Research Bureau of, 30–31

Powers and, 328, 329, 336

Presidential gift list for Soviets compiled by, 228

Soviet protests to, 124, 151

U-2 information released by, 47, 49, 50–51, 372

Steichen, Edward, 181

Stennis, John, 354

Stevenson, Adlai E., 86, 139, 181, 202, 240, 267

in election of 1960, 225, 302, 319, 341

Paris Summit and, 302, 303

Strategic Air Command (SAC), 73, 105–107, 108–109, 112, 149, 150, 237, 307

Kennedy’s visit to, 339–340

targets of, 155–156

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 393

Strong, Philip, 78, 79

strontium, 90, 231

Strout, Richard, 249, 353

submarines, nuclear, 106, 391

Suez crisis (1956), 136–139, 163

Sukarno, Achmed, 151

Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 234

Sulzberger, C. L., 273, 335, 356

Sulzberger, Marina, 273, 302

Supreme Soviet, 41–45, 53, 55–56, 58–61, 223–224

surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), 78, 160, 182–183

SA-2 Guidelines, 25, 160, 238, 357, 359, 362

Susskind, David, 280

Sverdlovsk, 25, 28, 30, 182–183, 241, 359, 361, 362

Symington, Stuart, 5, 153, 214, 318

Syria, 135, 138–139

Taft, Robert A., 293

Taiwan, 148, 211, 319, 320

Talbott, Harold, 82

Tass, 309

Technological Capabilities Panel (Killian Commission), 74–76, 79–80, 366

telephones, U.S. vs. Soviet, 208

test ban treaty, see nuclear test ban treaty

Thigpen, Corbett, 345

Third World:

Eisenhower’s image in, 225

Soviet relations with, 219, 224

Thompson, Jane, 42, 53, 54, 180, 181, 200, 223, 301

Thompson, Llewellyn (Tommy), 42, 44, 54–56, 58, 62–63, 172, 216, 218, 222, 227, 256–257, 375

on disarmament, 231–232

on Gorky Park speech, 266

“hot line” inspired by, 385n

on Khrushchev’s military cuts, 224

at Kremlin New Year’s reception, 223, 225

“most urgent” cable of (May 5, 1960), 53–54, 57, 65

Nixon and, 182, 183, 337

at Paris Summit, 278, 301, 302

in planning of Eisenhower’s Soviet trip, 226, 228, 229

Powers and, 331, 344

on Soviet reaction to U-2, 251

Time, 181, 354

Time-Life, 360

Times, The (London), 250

Todd, Mike, 11

Toumanoff, Vladimir, 183, 230, 331, 332

trade, U.S.-Soviet, 190, 209, 218

“Trial of Francis Gary Powers, The” (Red River Dave), 336

Trotsky, Leon, 166

Troyanovsky, Oleg, 190, 195

Trud, 180, 253–254

Truman, Harry S., 49, 73, 94, 197, 220, 264, 390

Eisenhower compared to, 80, 214

intelligence agency requested by, 128

overflight plan and, 77–78

U-2 incident and, 249

Truscott, Lucian, 99

Turkey, 59, 133–136

coup in (1960), 313

Soviet threats to, 60, 267–268

see also Adana

Twain, Mark, 86

Twining, Nathan, 77–78, 79, 82–83, 106, 150–151, 173, 260

Soviet trip of, 119–120, 123, 188

U-2:

announced as weather plane, 110–111

CIA vs. Air Force competition for, 105–107

emergency destruction system in, 15–16, 60, 404

equipment of, 14–15, 60, 92, 238, 364, 369

as mainstay of “R.B.A.F.,” 147

naming of, 92–93

new models of, 392

testing of, 93, 105, 236

U-2 Affair, The (NBC News documentary), 342

U-2 Affair, The (Wise and Ross), 369

U-2 incident (1960):

altitude of plane in, 332–333, 356–360

American life affected by, 394–396

autopilot problems in, 24–25, 360–361

Bay of Pigs compared to, 389

China and, 250–251, 259, 324

CIA theories of, 355–357

Eisenhower notified of downing in, 34

Eisenhower’s handling of, 36–37, 46–49, 55, 57–58, 65–66, 247–248, 252–255, 258, 260, 263–266, 271–272, 372–376, 380–382

election of 1960 and, 318–319

Khrushchev’s decline in power and, 325, 378–379

Khrushchev’s handling of, 39–45, 55–56, 58–63, 256–257, 259, 261–263, 371–372, 376–377, 380–382

Khrushchev’s political fears in, 29, 40–41

mystery of downing in, 355–363

Nathan’s views on, 357–358

Nixon’s interview on, 280–281

pilot error theory of, 362–363

press response to, 250, 258–259

“second American Exhibition” and, 261–263

Soviet bomb theory of, 358–359

Soviet deceptive photo released in, 253–254, 259

Soviet downing of plane in, 23–24, 25–27, 325, 355–363, 376–377

Soviet reaction to, 29–30, 39–45, 52–54, 58–61, 251, 256–257, 259, 261–263, 267–270

U.S. allies affected by, 267–269

U.S. reaction to, 30–31, 32–40, 45–52, 55–58, 61–66, 243–255, 263–267

U-2 missions, 355–376

achievements of, 363–364, 366–367

authorization of, 133, 233–234, 241–242, 244, 257, 314

Bissell petition to resume, 322–323

British role in, 146–147

Camp David talks and, 215, 238, 299, 312

in China, 148

CIA assurances about security of, 8, 14, 34, 36, 38, 64–66, 118, 160, 238, 271–272, 308, 368–370, 380, 404

CIA success with, 365–367

cover story of, 8, 28, 31, 32–33, 37–38, 39, 41, 46–52, 110–111, 112, 244, 314, 372–374, 380, 395

decision making and, 140, 364

delays in, 118, 119–120

Eisenhower briefed on, 6, 144

Eisenhower’s bans on, 136, 139, 233, 366

Eisenhower’s fears about, 6, 8–9, 34, 118, 139, 150–151, 160–161, 176, 233–234, 366

Eisenhower’s use of evidence from, 366–367

European bases of, 112, 116–117, 121, 144

ICBM information obtained by, 152–153, 237, 238, 241–242, 258, 341–342

Indonesian rebellion monitored by, 151–152, 367

leaks and, 37, 234–235, 252

maiden voyage of, 118–123

after May 1960, 391–392

Middle East mapped during, 137–138

in 1957, 140–148

oversight of, 367–368, 370

Pakistan base for, 10, 11, 13–17, 145–146, 147, 235, 238, 256, 268

risk of war attached to, 6, 9, 29, 61, 62–63, 118, 151, 158, 239, 252–253, 265–266, 364, 365, 371, 391

secrecy of, 4–6, 9, 56–57, 160, 367–368

Senate investigation of, 313–317, 353, 356, 360

Soviet anxiety and, 157–158

Soviet intelligence and, 235–236

Soviet protests of, 9, 43, 124–125, 139, 151, 239, 391

Soviet tracking of, 123, 156

targets of, 24, 25, 147, 155–56

traditional espionage vs., 9

UN debate on, 311–313

U.S. concern about loss of information from, 322–323

U.S. vs. Soviet perceptions of, 364–365, 380–381

weather problems and, 9–10, 14, 119

U-2 pilots, 46, 140–142

CIA Intelligence Stars to, 397

fears of, 159–160

landing instructions of, 404, 405

logs of, 22–23, 24

morale of, 15, 21–22, 38, 135

personal identification of, 16, 151, 152

recruitment of, 20, 106, 108–109

Soviet views on, 55

suicide recommended for, 14, 16, 369

training of, 106–107, 109, 112

wages of, 37, 109

Ukraine, 166–167

Ulam, Adam, 379–380

United Nations, 69, 84

Eisenhower at, 72–73, 338

General Assembly of, 337–339

Khrushchev at, 198, 207, 337–339

Recovery Agency of, 197

Security Council of, 43, 311–313, 322, 338

U-2 affair and, 53, 311–313

United Press International (UPI), 45–46, 80

Vandenberg, Hoyt, 77–78

Vershinin, Konstantin, 39–40, 54, 274

Vienna, Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in, 344–345, 383

Vietnam War, 392

Vinogradov, Sergei, 282

Vladimir Prison, 343–344, 345

Vogel, Wolfgang, 347

Voice of America, 197–198, 218, 227, 291, 309

Waging Peace (Eisenhower), 388, 403, 405

Wagner, Robert, 197

Wainwright, Stuyvesant, 131

Wall Street Journal, 258–259

Walters, Vernon, 284, 289, 296–297

Warsaw Pact, 138, 192

Washington Post, 39, 56–57, 149, 201, 234, 235, 250, 321, 349–350

Washington Star, 250

Watertown Strip, 93, 105, 107, 109–110, 147

Wayne, John, 70

Welch, A. D., 80

Werth, Alexander, 219

Wheeler, Earle, 339–340

White. Lincoln, 50–51, 52, 58, 243, 248–249, 257–258, 267, 269

Whitman, Ann, 33, 64, 80, 82, 107, 108, 176, 185, 193, 196, 204, 213, 254, 266, 270–271, 272, 296–297, 307

Whitney, John Hay, 2, 296, 301

Wickers, John, 351

Wiley, Alexander, 316

Will, George, 394

Williams, Daniel, 361

Wilson, Charles, 82, 89

Wilson, Woodrow, 2, 69, 96

Wise, David, 369

Wohlstetter, Albert, 73, 149

Wolfe, Tom, 109

World War I, 76, 127, 175

World War II, 63–64, 67–69, 81, 86, 129, 166–167, 209, 294–295, 299, 387

Yeager, Chuck, 93

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 387

York, Herbert, 46–47

Young, Stephen, 281, 351

Yugoslavia, 170, 219

Zaroubin, Georgi, 111, 124, 125

Zhukov, Georgi, 67–68, 70, 101–103, 163, 171, 275

Eisenhower’s friendship with, 67–68, 70, 101, 102, 206

Zinoviev, Grigory, 166

Zorin, Valerian, 220