(Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense, U.S.S.R.; Moscow, 1965)(Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense, U.S.S.R.; Moscow, 1965)
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“In May 1963, American officers L. A. Bracken, F. G. Babbitt, and D. J. Colgan acted just as shamelessly while traveling to Murmansk. They also sneaked into the restricted area of military facilities and were detained there.
In October of the same year, L. A. Bracken, S. Savage, J. M. Landrigan, and J. F. Smith flew to Rostov. In violation of Soviet regulations, they tried to take photographs from the airplane window. The crew confiscated their equipment.
In February 1964, Bracken and three companions traveled from Odessa to Batumi on the ship Crimea. They secretly took photographs of ships and other objects in the Sevastopol area. And on February 14, Bracken and Savage ‘became famous’ in Leningrad. They photographed military installations from the window of a car and tried to escape. They failed. The indignant Leningraders literally besieged their car. Having locked themselves in it, Bracken and Savage, in order to avoid the worst, were forced to expose the film in public and burn the notes they had made.
The list of spy diplomats could be continued. But, perhaps, what has been said is enough to convince us of how vilely and treacherously the agents of imperialist intelligence services behave while in our country as diplomats.”