SOVIET PROTEST REJECTED
Comment By U.S. Air Force (Rec. 9 n.m ) WASHINGTON. July 11 A United States Air Force spokesman tonight asserted in what he described as an “unofficial’’ statement that no United States Air Force planes had flown over Soviet territory, as claimed in a Soviet protest Note handed over at the State Department yesterday. The spokesman said that the reason that this statement could not be made official at present, was that the Air Force had not yet received the translated Soviet Note. It therefore could not comment formally. The Soviet Ambassador. Mr Georgi Zarubin, delivered the Note to Mr Dulles, the Secretary of State, yesterday afternoon. He told reporters as he left Mr Dulles’s office that he had brought a Soviet protest that United States military aircraft had violated Soviet territory .on several occasions between July 4 and July 9. He said that the aircraft had flown over Minsk, Pinsk, Kalingrad, and several other cities. Some of them had stayed in Soviet air space as long as two and a half hours, Mr Zarubin said.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28019, 13 July 1956, Page 13
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