Italy Reported to Be Preparing to Try Bulgarian Pilot

HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE ./23 4.6 AT 0536 1/23 0 7 AT 1133 1/23 5.5 AT 1750 :J~B HOURGLASS '/24 0.5 AT 0013 VOL. 3 No. 1023 KWAJALEIN 1 MARSHAlL ISLANDS MoNDAY 22 JANUARY 1962 GLENN'S ORBIT WEDNESDAY HINGES ITALY REPORTED TO BE PREPARING TO TRY ON BALKY SPACE CAPSULE & WEATHER BULGARIAN PILOT ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES CAPE CANAVERAL, JAN. 21 (UPI)~AMERI cAts PLANS TO ROCKET ASTRONAUT JOHN H ACQUAVIVA, ITALY, JAN. 21 (UPI)-ITALY WAS REPORTEe TODAY TO aE PREPARING TO GLENN JR. INTO ORBIT AROUND THE EARTH TRY A BULGARIAN AIR fORCE PILOT ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES DESPITE HIS STORY HE WEDNESDAY HINGED TODAY ON A BALKY SPACE CRASH LANDED HIS Spy PLANE 600 YARDS FROM A SUPER-SECRET NATO MISSiLE BASE IN CAPSULE AND TRICKY WINTER WEATHER. A BID fOR POLITICAL ASYLUM. THE LAST 72 HOURS ARE THE LONGEST AND U.S. AND ITALIAN COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE AGENTS QUESTIONED H'M NON-STOP iN A MOST DIFFICULT. IN THIS PERIOD THE LOCAL HOSPITAL HERE AND OBVIOUSLY DID NOT BELIEVE ArS STORY. HIS PLANE WAS MYRIAD ELECTRICAL PARTS AND SEVEN MILES JAMMED WITH CAMERAS AND SECRET EQUIPMENT SIMILAR TO THAT CARRIED SY U2 PI~OT OF WIRING ABOARD THE CAPSULE AND THE FRANCIS GARY POWERS, AND HE PASSED UP CHANCES TO LAND AT TWO AIRPORTSo 50,000 MOVING PARTS INSIDE THE ATLAS THE PILOT WAS IDENTIfiED AS 22-YEAR-OLD MILUSC SOLAKOV, A 2ND LIEUTENANT ROCKET BOOSTER MUST CHECK OUT PERFECTLY IN THE BULGARtAN AIR FORCE 11TH fiGHTER AND RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON, THE BEfORE THE MAN CAN GO A~Rb. ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ANNOUNCED. IT SAID~'T WOULD ISSUE AN OF~IC!AL COM GLENN, A 40-YEAR-OLD MARINE LIEUTEN MUNIQuE ON THE CASE TOMORROW. ANT COLONEL WHO SAID HE IS "ANXIOUS" SOLAKOV FLEW IN HIGH OVER THE ADRIATIC YESTERDAY IN A fLIGHT OF FOUR PLANES, 10 MAKE THE TRIP, CONTINUED PREPARAT PEELED OFr, AND LANIED IN AN OLIVE GROVE 30 MILES SOUTH Of BARI IN A MANEUVER IONS FOR HIS 81,OOO-MILE, THREE-ORBIT THAT IMMEDIATELY RECALLED THE Pow, •• CASE. POWERS IS SERVING A 10-YEAR SE~~~N- FLIGHT THROUGH SPACE BY JOGGING TWO CE IN RUSSIA. I MILES ACROSS THE SANOY BEACHES OF CAPE TODAY, ITALY LODGED A fORMAL COMPLAINT WITH BULGARIA OVER THE INCURSiON, AND C~NAVERAL EARLY TODAY. INfORMED SOURCES SAID Spy CHARGES WOULD BE LODGED AGAINST SOLAKOV ~f A STUDY GLENN LEfT THE CAPE THIS MORNING TO Of HIS SECRET EQUIPMENT AND THE FILMS HE CARRIED PROVED HE WAS A SPY. ATTEND SERVICES AT THE RIVERSIDE PRES WHILE U.S. AGENTS JOINED ITALIAN OfFICIALS AT HIS BEDSIDE, THE CAMEqAS AND BfTERIAN CHURCH IN NEARBY COCOA BEACH. fiLM WERE FLOWN TO ROME TO BE PROCESSED AND STUDIED. OfFICIALS BELnEVED T~EY A CROWD Of AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS AWAITED WOULD FIND RECORDS Of A Spy MISSION CARRIED OUT BY THE SPECIALLY BUILT AND HiM. HE RETURNED TO TM' CAPE IMMEDI EQUIPPED SOVIET MIG. ATELY AFTER CHURCH. THE BULGARIAN MISSION IN ROM~ AD fOR GLENN, THE PROJECT HUNORED~Of • WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF * MITTED THAT THE PLANE WAS A BULGAR!A~ MERCURY SCIENTISTS WHO ARE WORKING TO MIG 17 BUT SAID THAT THE PLANE "WAS PUT HI~ INTO ORBIT AND THE THOUSANDS BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL fORCED Off ITS COURSE AND TqWARD iTALY Of VISIT.RS WHO HAVE JAMMED THE NEARBY TWIN LAKES, COLORADO--SIX BODIES HAvt BY 8AD WEATHER WITHOUT THE PILOT REAL BEACH AREAS TO AWAIT THE RESULTS,' THE BEEN RECOVERED fOLLOWING A GIANT SNOW IZING WHAT WAS HAPPENING". TH~ a!s wEATHER THREATENED TO BE THE BIGGEST SLtDE WHICH aURIED THE OCCUPANTS OF TWO TANCE FROM BULGARIA TO ITALY IS ABOUT HEADACHE. CABINS AT TWIN LAKES, COLORADO, UNDER 300 MILES. • THE WEATHER DEMANDS FOR THE ORSITAL TONS Of SNOW. THE SLIDE RUMBLED DOWN A BULGARIAN 8P~KISMAN SAID SOLAKOV FLIGHT ARE STiff. fOR LAUNCH-TIME AT MoUNT ELBERT AND BURIED THE CABINS UN WAS A RELATIVELY INEXPERIENCED PilOT THE CAPE, THE SKIES WILL HAVE TO BE DER 14 fEET Of SNOW. Two PERSONS HAVE WHO WOULD NOT BE ENTRUSTED WIT~ A Dif ALMOST CLOUDLESS.- SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE BEEN RESCUED, THREE OTHERS ARE .ELIEVED FICULT RECONNAISSANCE JOB. THE SPOKES~ WEATHER HAS TO BE GOOD AND THE SEAS STILL TRAPPED UNDER THE SNOW THE MAN SAID THE PILOT TRIED TO ~AND ON A SMOOTH IN THE THREE POSSIBLE LANDING SLIDE MOVED AT AN ESTIMATED 150 MILES ROAD WHEN HE rOUND HE WAS LOST AND AREAS--500 MILES EAST AND 500 MILES AN HOUR AFTER IT COLLAPSED orf THE DENIED THAT THE PLANE WAS "ADAPTASLE II SOUTH OF BERMUDA, AND 800 MILES SOUTH SLOPES OF THE 14-THOUSAND 431-fOOT TO AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE" EAST Of CAPE CANAVERAL. MOUNTAIN, THE HIGHEST IN COLORADO. THE PILOT WAS REPORTED IN flQune: IN THE CAPE AREA, JANUARY AND FE.RUAR~ GOOD" CONDITION .ESPITE MULTIPLE IN WEATHER IS NOTORIOUSLY "PRETTY BAD." DENVER--THE DENVER WEATHER BUREAU JURIES BUT WAS STILL SUFFERING FROM BUT THE U.S. WEATHER BUREAU IN MIAMI BLAMES WINDS Of MORE THAN 70 MILES AN SHOCK HE WAS ABLE TO ANSWER QUEST PRESENTED AN OPTIMISTIC WEATHER PICT HOUR fOR THE GIANT SN&W~LIDE WHICH IONS BY ITALIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS URE TODAY. THUNDERED DOWN MoUNT ELBERT. As ONE AND TWO U.S. OrrJCERS WHO RUSHED HERE "THE WEATHER PATTERN OVER THE ATLANTIC FORECASTER SAID, "WINDS OF THAT STRENG fROM ROME TO TRY TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH IS SHAPING UP BETTER THAN NORMAL FOR TH REALLY CHURN THINGS UP AT THAT ALTI THE COMMUNISTS KNEW A80UT THE U.S. Mia-WINTER," THE REPORT SAID. TUDE." HE SAID MORE THAN SEVEN FEET MISSILE BASES. " •• THE OVERALL PATTERN IS RELATIVE Of SNOW WAS ON THE PEAK. THE SLtDE INrORM£D SOVRCES SAID THE PILOT, lY GOOD COMPARED TO A NORMAL JANUARY." CLIMAXED WEEKS OF BITTER COLD IN COLO SUfFE~l~G A BROKEN ARM AND A HEAD IN PART Of THE DIFfiCULTY WITH GETTING RADO. THE AREA OF THE SLIDE IS ABOUT JURY, INSISTED THROUGH AN INTERPRETER A MERCURY CAPSULE READY FOR fLIGHT IS 90 MILES SOUTHWEST Of DENVER. THAT HE WAS TRYING TO ESCAPE TO FREE THE LARGE AMOUNT Of ELECTRONIC GEAR DOM. ALLIED orrlCIALS WOULD NOT BE THAT HAS TO BE CRAMMED INTO A COMPAR MADRID--THE U.S. EMBASSY IN MADRID LIEVE THIS BECAUSE THIS BECAUSE THE ATIVELY SMALL SPACE. "fRIENDSHtP-7" HAS "EXPRESSED ITS CONCERN" TO THE COINCIDENCE WAS TOO GREAT--THE fOUR IS A LITTLE LESS ROOMY THAN A TELEPHO~E SPANISH GOVERNMENT OVER A RASH OF "VIO SPY PLANES SPOTTED ON RADAR AND THE BOOTH LENT" ANTI-AMERICAN EDITORIALS IN SPAN PILOT'S COURSE ITSELf. By COMPARISON THE "VOSTOK" SPACESHIP ISH NEWSPAPERS. THE CRITICISM HIT A HE PASSED UP AIRBASES AT BARI AND THAT CARRIED RUSSIAN COSMONAUT YURI PEAK fRIDAY IN PRESS ATTACKS THAT AC BRINDISI AND 'LEW TO THE lASE NEAR THE GAGARIN INTO SPACE LAST APRIL 12 AS CUSED THE U.S., THE UNITED NATIONS AND TOWN WHICH DOES NOT HAVE ANY AIRFIELD THE WORLD'S fiRST ORIITING MAN W£teHll OTHER WESTERN POWERS Of BEING "HYPO LARGER THAN A PAD USED ey HELICOPTERS MORE THAN fiVE TONS AND WAS MORE THAN' CRITES." POLITICAL OBSERVERS IN MA HE HAD SHOT IN TOWARD THE SASE AT TWICE AS LONG AS "fRtENDSHIP-T' DRID THINK THE ATTACKS REPRESENT DELIB LOW LEVEL, HIT A GROUP Of OLIVE TREES IF ALL GOES AS PLANNED, GLENN WILL BE ERATE SPANISH POLICY ••• PART Of A CAM AND SMASHED INTO A THREE-fOOT STONE ROCKETED INTO ORBIT AT A SPEED or PAIGN TO STRaNGTHEN SPAIN'S BARGAINING WALL. 17,500 MILES PER HOUR--fIVE MILES A POSITION WHEN TALKS BEGIN fOR THE RE ONLY 600 YARDS AWAY WAS THE SOG SECOND--SOME TIME BETWEEN 7:30 A.M. AND NEWAL OF DECADE-OLD ~ILITARY AID PACTS BASE SURROUNDED .Y TWO ELECTRiFiED 12:30 P.M. EST WIDNESDAY. SCIENTISTS BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS. WI«E rENCES 10 rEET HIGH. THERE IS PLAN TO LET HIM MAKE THREE ORBITS BEfORE NO IDENTIfiCATION or THE BASE. AT TRIGGERING THE CAPSULE'S REVERSE ROCK BERLIN--EAST GERMAN COMMUNISTS HAVE THE ENTRANCE, WHICH IS GUARDED BY ETS FOR THE RETURN THROUGH THE ATMOS THREATENED TO IMPOSE CUSTOMS DUTIES ITALIAN POLtCE, THERE IS A SIGN iN PHERE TO A LANDING IN THE ATLANTIC ON G009S PASSING THROUGH RED TERRITORY ITALIAN AND ENGLISH SAYiNG ONLYo OCEAN. TO ISOLATED WiST BERLIN. THE APPARENT "SPEED LIMIT 20 KILOMETERS AN HOUR HUNDREDS Of NEWSMEN ALREADY HAVE NEW SQUEEZE ON WEST BERLIN WAS ANNOUN IN THIS AREA." POURED INTO COCOA BEACH, fLORIDA, THE CED IN THE OFfiCIAL EAST GERMAN PARTY THE MISSILE BASE THAT SOlAK~V AlMOS NEAREST COMMUNITY SOUT~;~Y THE CAPE, NEWSPAPER. IT SAID THE SOVIET ZONE SLAMMED INTO WAS ONE Of A ~UMBER Of TO COVE~. THE SHOT. ONE MOTEL OWNER PARLIAMENT WILL MEET WEDNESDAY TO PASS NAT( INSTALLATIONS I~ SOUTHER"! ITAL'f tl SA! D THE JAM WAS Y10. J".UIts WORSE THAN THE NEW CUSTOMS LAWS AND ON THE ISLANDS OF SAROlNIA pND THAT CREATED BY PREPARATIONS FOR COV S,CILY ALTHOUGH THEiR lCCArnON !S ERAGE Of THE SHEPARD FLIGHT LAST MAy 5 SECRET, COMMUNIST NEWSPAPERS IN ROME PUBLISHED A MAP PURPORTING T0 s~ow WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED. PAGE 2 HOURGLASS MONDA"f'" 22 JANuARY 1962 PUBL I SHED AT THE DIRECT ION OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER, PACIFIC MISSILE UoN. SECRETARY GENERAL IN TOUCH WITH CONGO REPRESENTATiVE RANGE FACILITY, ~AJALEIN, MARSHALL UNITED NATIONS, JANo 20 (UPI)--ACTING SECRETARY GENERAL THANT KEPT IN TOUCH ISLANDS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH BUREAU WITH HIS REPRESENTATIVE IN THE CONGO TODAY TO DETERMINE WHAT MEASURES CAN BE OF WEAPONS CONTRACT NOAS-59-4176-c TAKE~ TO RESTORE ORDER IN AREAS WHERE MARAUDING CONGOLESE TROOPS HAVE ATTACK WITH THE TRANSPORT C~PANY OF TEXAS.

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