What If You Were Gary Powers By Alen Salerian
By Alen Salerian
Power memorial; Vanessa Mullins V.P. World Honesty Day
What if you, like Gary Powers, had to choose between life or death on 01/05/1960?
Would you swallow a cyanide pill not to be captured by the Red Army?
Do I blame Gary Powers for refusing to be a he
Call me a coward. In Gary’s shoes, I would have done the same thing even without knowing what we know today. The U2 affair was treason by Allen Dulles (CIA).
U2 took off in violation of President Eisenhower’s no flights order over Soviet Union prior to the sensitive negotiations for nuclear peace scheduled in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France on May 16.
The U2 affair triggered the collapse of a scheduled summit conference in Paris.
What really happened to the U2?
Colonel Fletcher Prouty, the liaison between the Pentagon and JFK, let us discover astonishing details of how Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks were undermined (1).
Gary was not shot down. He ran out of fuel.
Why?
Not enough fuel in the tank for Gary Powers from the Pound to parachute to somewhere in Siberia on 05/01/1960.
Gary, a man from Pound, VA, became a pawn in a political chess game between two superpowers as his life ended supposedly by a helicopter crash with
Neither Powers nor Eisenhower would be the only patriotic Americans betrayed by Allen Dulles (CIA), the masterful architect of the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Dealey Plaza ambush of JFK on 11/22/1963.
Soon after JFK’s murder, Eisenhower
During Dulles’ death-bed confession recorded by a Princeton scholar (2,3), Dulles was proud of his hatred of JFK.
Allen Dulles despised the American constitution.
Let us celebrate a patriotic Virginian’s life and courage, build and enjoy the statues of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Powers at the grand entrance of the CIA, Langley, VA.
References:
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U-2, a U.S. high-altitude aircraft, c. 1957.
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The U-2:
