On one detail everyone was agreed: a U-2 reconnaissance plane was brought down over eastern China.
The Nationalist Chinese conceded that the plane was one of two that they bought from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in 1960. It had taken off on a "routine mission" from Formosa's Taoyuan airbase on the day it vanished, but the Nationalists revealed neither the plane's flight plan nor the pilot's identity. Peking, which last July had offered a reward of 8,000 ounces of gold (value $280,000) to any Nationalist pilot who would defect with his U-2 intact, boasted...
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