Friday, February 6, 2015

One Russian-American spy scandal killed Eugene Posa. Forty-one years later, his family fears another one could keep his body hidden. Posa was a 38-year-old Air Force captain from Santa Monica in 1960 when he was tapped for a team to replace captured American U2 spy Francis Gary Powers for secret aerial surveillance over the Soviet Union. But a Soviet MIG fighter shot down Posa's Boeing RB-47 on its first flight. Posa seemed to disappear with the plane into the Barents Sea. It wasn't until 1992, at the end of the Cold War, that the U.S. admitted that the plane Posa was aboard was spying, not making the weather reconnaissance flight Washington officials had claimed. That's when Russia disclosed that Posa's body had been found by fishermen and buried.


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