NODULE X7 OSWALD IN MINSK AND THE U2 DUMP: JANUARY ...

Francis Gary Powers stated that when the KGB had scientists extrapolate his altitude
from various radar readings, they happened to verify his arbitrary figure:
As they read the figures, I began to disbelieve them. Surely this was some
cruel hoax, designed to throw me off guard. No one could be so lucky. Not
only was their height-finding radar off...some were actually at 68,000!
During the show trial of Francis Gary Powers in Moscow in August 1960, the Soviets
insisted they shot down the U-2 at its cruising altitude of 68,000 feet. Francis Gary
Powers was asked repeatedly, "At what altitude was your aircraft struck?" and he
answered, "It was the maximum altitude, 68,000 feet." Major Voronov, whose rocket unit
shot down the U-2, testified: "As the plane entered the firing range at an altitude of
68,000 feet one rocket was fired and its explosion destroyed the target." In 1978 the CIA
claimed: "The Soviets knew perhaps even more accurately than even the U-2 altimeters
showed, what the height was." [CIA OLC #78-2469 - SD Breckinridge meeting with
HSCA investigators] The key to shooting down the U-2 was not so much in defeating its
granger as it was having accurate information as to its cruising altitude. Francis Gary
Powers tried to cover up the fact that he gave the Soviets accurate information about
the altitude of the U-2. Francis Gary Powers had been instructed that "if captured be
cooperative and try to answer questions to which the Soviets appeared already to have
knowledge."
Powers did not know it, but the Soviets already had knowledge of the altitude of the U-2
from OSWALD. OSWALD had learned it at Atsugi or from ANGLETON. (The Soviets
thought he had learned it while stationed at Atsugi). ANGLETON had sabotaged the
Summit and changed history.
OSWALD'S friend, Michael Paine, commented:
I could well believe that he would give some information. That he'd like to
be valuable to the Russians. He didn't feel a loyalty to the United States.
He wanted to change the system here. If he had some information he
thought he could sell, he might have done it. That's enough explanation. If
he gave the Russians the information to sabotage the summit, it would
have had to happen at the right instance. OSWALD wasn't what you called
a 'world class' person. If I were recruiting somebody to do that, I would like
someone with a little more mental acumen. He wasn't stupid, but neither
was he smart. If I were trying to find someone for a role like that, I wouldn't
have picked LEE.
This researcher told Michael Paine that the most unrecognizable spy is the most
dangerous. Michael Paine agreed, "Yeah, I'll go along with that. But OSWALD was
pipsqueak."
HEMMING told this researcher: