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

entering and exiting the ADIZ, which stands for Air Defense Identification
Zone. He knew the range of our radar. He knew the range of our radio.
And he knew the range of the surrounding unit's radio and radar.
OSWALD'S conversation with Snyder is mentioned at least three times in
the Warren Report: "OSWALD told [Snyder] that he had already offered a
Soviet official what he had learned as a radar operator in the Marines.
[Overflight pg. 358]
The FBI reported: "News media report Powers has theorized LEE HARVEY OSWALD
gave the Soviets radar secrets and information as to U-2's altitude capacity."
EVIDENCE: VLADIMIR SEMICHASTNY
Vladimir Semichastny told Frontline: "There were conversations, but
this was such outdated information, the kind we say the sparrows
have already chirped to the entire world, and now OSWALD tells us
about it. Not the kind of information that would interest such a high
level organization such as ours." Scott Malone confirmed that this
information dealt with the U-2, but claimed that OSWALD supplied it
after the U-2 had been shot down. Vladimir Semichastny: "We already had better
sources of information. We had the plane and the pilot." [Interview with W. S. Malone]
FRANCIS GARY POWERS‟ RELEASE
Francis Gary Powers was given a ten-year prison sentence by the Soviets. The name of
the prosecutor at Powers' trial was Roman Andreyevich Rudenko. The name Aleksandr
Rudenchek was found in OSWALD'S address book with the notation, teacher, next to it.
Francis Gary Powers could have received the death penalty. He was well treated in
prison. Eventually, former OSS General Counsel James B. Donovan (died January 20,
1970), who had defended GRU Colonel Rudolph Abel, arranged for Francis Gary
Powers to be exchanged for Rudolph Abel. Rudolf Abel had been an illegal agent
stationed in the United States. ANGLETON had helped develop the trail that led to
Rudolf Abel. This was a poor trade for America - a master spy exchanged for a mere
CIA contractual employee.
United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy opposed the trade. He anticipated
that when Francis Gary Powers returned to the United States he would be tried for
treason. Francis Gary Powers' behavior in the Soviet Union became the focus of much
criticism. The CIA set up a board of inquiry headed by retired Federal Appeals Court
Judge E. Barrett Prettyman. In the summer of 1962 James B. Donovan and E. Barrett
Prettyman negotiated with the Castro Government for the release of the Bay of Pigs
prisoners. Hearings were held in CIA Headquarters, and Francis Gary Powers was
cleared of any wrongdoing.
The only evidence received by the Board which directly conflicted with
Powers' account was part of a report based on (deleted). Some of these