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down, the eisenhower administration release add cia cover story. it was supposedly a weather surveillance plane straight off course. on may 5th, it was announced that the russians shot down a spy plane. >> aware of this, realizes we had just given him a golden opportunity to lay a trap. because what he hadn't bothered to tell us yet is it's a spy. and they had most of the wreckage of the plane and whatever else could be said about it, it was not a research plane, spy plane. >> announces to the world not only did they shootdown the plane but they also had the pilot who is alive and ticking and can contest to spying. >> now the cia cover story would no longer be believed. president eisenhower had to tell the world the truth. >> i want to talk to you about

this u 2 incident. >> he also assured the nation that the u.s. would still work toward peace with the soviet union in an upcoming paris summit scheduled for may 16th. >> all agree the long awaited meeting of the big four has gotten off to a bad start and as the situation is even more tense, as the result continues toward president eisenhower. >> charles begoal who had great hopes for the summit, fuming and screaming and yelling those no good americans, they take flyovers and pictures of us. the outrage was terrible. >> describe, if you would, what your dad told you about what this was like for his family back home. >> his mother and father, sisters were traumatized by this. first of all, they did not know he was doing a secret mission. he was only going to tell them he was flying a weather

recognizance aircraft and overseas duty. that's all he could say. >> for the first time, "war stories" is showing the telegram his family received, quote. i must inform you that your son will be tried according to the laws of the soviet union. the law is the law and i'm not in the position to interfere in the matter. if you wish to come to the soviet union to see your son, i'm ready to help you in this matter. francis gary powers trail set for august 11th, his parents rush to moscow to be by his side. the trial lasted three days. tell me what your dad told you about the actual trial. >> very shy, very quiet. did not like to speak before audiences. he did not know what to expect when he was on trial. he thought it would be in a courtroom. this was not a courtroom.

it was a public theater with hundreds of people in the audience from the international press. >> a show trial. >> a show trial designed to embarrass the united states and to help win the propaganda victory because of the incident. >> everything was arranged ahead of time arranging from what the prosecutor would say, the man who was described as a defense attorney, the defendant and of course the judges. >> you know, of course, your dad is convicted. >> yes, dad is convicted. >> sentences mr. powers to ten years loss of liberty, three in prison and seven in a slave camp called a work es farm. >> how long before he realizes he's being used by the russians as a pawn in that great east west controversy. >> not until the trial was he really aware what was going on. >> powers served 18 months in prison where these propaganda photos were taken and sent home to his family.

early on a cold, foggy morning, powers is brought to germany. he was freed in exchange for convicted kgb spy rudolph able. >> entering questions about the exchange of soviet spy for u 2 pilot powers, president kennedy tells his latest washington news conference. >> for the whereabouts of mr. powers, i can say at this time he's in his country undergoing important interviews. he'll be free to testify before the congress, should the congress so wish. >> on march 6th, powers appeared for a hearing before a senate select committee. >> they exonerated him of wrongdoing and showed him to be a fine young man in a dangerous situation. even though he was cleared by the selected investigative committee and cleared by the cia and shown to follow orders, they never did anything to help clear his name. >> the american people had mix the reactions about the insz dent and francis gary powers

release. >> it's awesome. >> when your dad arrives in the united states, does he expect to be treated as a hero? >> when he got home he was shocked to discover that many americans thought he betrayed his country. some editorials said my father was a hero. some said he was a traitor. there was a gap between what the american public knew and what the american government knew, and my father was stuck in the middle again. >> that what was he loved most, flying. he worked as a test pilot then he became a helicopter pilot for a local television station in los angeles. >> on august 1st, 1977 he was reporting on brush fires, in the california area. the fuel gauge indicated it was low on fuel. he picked to land, so he diverted the chopper to miss

them and that's what happened. >> 40 years after he made the historic flight, the powers family was presented with a prisoner of war medal, a distinguished flying cross and national defense service medal. [ applause ] >> we truly believe that he did what he had to do understand ert circumstances he found himself in and he would have done it again the exact same way given those circumstances. he had no bitterness toward the american government and the russian people. the only thing that he thought that the american government should have done was to help him clear his name. >> if it matters, i think your dad was a hero. >> thank you very much. a high-ranking spy catches an international terrorist coming up on "war stories." announcer: leaving hot coals

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the '80s, the stock market soared. >> you have no power over me satan. >> and pacman was still the rage. but it was also a time of terrorism. airplanes were hijacked. people were killed at airline ticket counters and marine barracks was bombed. these events left the world shocked. >> we suddenly felt ourselves terribly vulnerable because we had these worldwide interests, hundreds of thoses of americusa americans going overseas, business, tourism, every single american was now vulnerable.

>> fundamental problem was that we were always on the defensive. we had to go onto the offense. not saying we weren't trying to recruit people for information, but once we had it, all we were think about was using that information for defensive purposes. >> dwayne was a high-ranking spy for the cia for 30 years. throughout his career, he conducted culvert operations around the world in turkey, rome, india, and the middle east. he wrote about his adventures in his book a spy for all seasons, my life in the cia. >> the terrorists had free reign. the whole idea, we were bringing them back as criminals to stand trial in our courts. we weren't allowed to kill them because it was an executive

order in jerry ford's administration. >> he is known to his friends as duey who grew up in new hampshire of receiving a masters degree, he was recruited by the cia but first, he had to serve his country. he joined the army and went to officer candidate school. >> how did you get into the counterterrorism? >> we weren't getting a handle on the terrorism problem. these vents fevents finished it. he had enough. he knew we were not doing enough, maybe we were doing something wrong. >> the united states tonight is a nation being attacked by international terrorists and killed and sees our innocence with their prisoners. >> he got ahold of director casey, director of central intelligence agency cia and asked him to try and do

something better. the agency to come up with something better for the problem. >> he asked clear rage to become chief of the center for the cia. >> at some point it became important we would have to demonstrate graphically that's what we meant, which basically amounted to an eye for an eye. >> tell me a little bit about the coordination that you create aid among, not just within the cia but among other government agencies. >> well, the idea in setting up would it bring the people together in one place, it would also ask other agencies like the fbi, like state department, secret service, military to send representatives. >> the director casey, president regan and you want to go on the offensive, how did you do it? >> we had a lead immediately to

a fellow we've been after for sometime. >> the target was this man, a lebanese terrorist. he hijacked the flight 402 in june 1985. over 53 hours, they beat and tortured eight sky marshalls using cigarettes in front of horrified passengers. it would end after he was allowed to read a statement and released the passengers. and blew up the plane. ♪ ♪ >> two days later, he showed up at another hijacking. >> twa flight 847 becomes a center piece for a lot of terrorism. it's like hijacked flying out of

athens airport. it was notorious for years as the place where anybody can get through without any security. i witnessed it myself. nothing. >> over the next 17 days, the plane and its passengers hopscotched around the eastern mediterranean. this time the ordeal ended in murder, 23-year-old navy diver robert steven was tortured and shot in the head. >> this was an attack at president regan. >> please be seated. one hour ago, the body of a young american hero navy diver robert dean stevens was returned to his native soil in a coffin after being beaten and shot at point blank range. let me make it clear to the assassins and accomplices

wherever they may be, america will never make concessions to terrorists. >> in the spring of '87 he and his team set up to capture him. >> he was perfect. he made that speech. we discovered he was vulnerable. >> when you went to cypress for the operation, did you go to cypress' cia office? >> no, i went in an alias passport. the alias passport and the cover story is i was a salesman for funeral supplies. >> a mortician. >> yes. >> you sit there on an airport and the fellow sitting next to you or lady sitting next to you gets inquisitive. when you say you sell morgue sup

pipes, that turns off the conversation right away. >> it would test the long arm statute that congress passed into law to take americans hostage anywhere in the world. >> well, we checked with justice department and justice department said under our new laws, he was fair game because there had been three american citizens on that plane. and the angel seemed to be here to entice him to cypress and then into the hands of the fbi in some sort of a drug deal. >> duey asked the dea for the loan of a confidential inform pant, a lebanese national who was an acquaintance. >> we found out if you mention the word drugs and profit around him, it suddenly became very interested. he told him he was in touch with

a big time drug smuggler interested in accompliestablishs and brought him back to cypress and chatted things up. at that particular meeting that we had put a listening device into his home and he had encouraged unis to brag about the hijacking exploit with the twa aircraft and the justice department really wanted that evidence on tape. >> the trap was set but would he take the bait? the answer next on "war the answer next on "war stori

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according to international law, unis had to be delivered to washington without touching any other country on the morning of september 13th, this is how the multi agency plan unfolded. step one, unis boarded a motor boat taking them to meet a drug lord supposedly named joseph on a yacht anchored in international waters. step two, the men boorarded the yacht and greeted joseph and included several female agents in bikinis. minutes after they boarded, two agents slammed him to the deck breaking his wrists. he was then arrested. unis is transfered to a navy ammunition chip positioned specially for this mission. step four, after pour days, the prisoner is transferred to the

aircraft carrier and placed above an s-3 transport. for 13-hour flight back to the states making it the longest s-3 flight in history. >> he also had luck and anybody who hasn't, doesn't think luck is in the spy business never had any because actually, it's the forest multiplier and without it, you're not going to get there. >> after trial, unis was sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiracy and aircraft pry no terrorist had been arrested outside the united states and tried in court for a crime committed outside the country. >> here you are at the end of a six-month long operation involving at least five agencies with the federal government. you had the entire hierarchy of the federal government watching

over your shoulders and you just succeeded. >> just the shaking of hands to say congratulations, we made it and the only other ceremony, vice president bush is always very good about, you know, looking after the troops and so he was very kind to invite many of the people who had been involved in the operation both in cypress and aboard the ships and in the bureaucracy to his home for i guess you call it a photo op. because of security concerns, the photograph taken only shows the backs of all of our heads. >> in all of your 33 years of service at the cia, do you have any regret? >> you know, frankly, over the years, i sort of felt i should have paid the government for working in cia than the other

way around and i never got up in the morning ever and didn't want to go to work. couldn't wait to get there. >> stay with me, oliver north for more "war stories" on the for more "war stories" on the fox news channel. but i'm not standing still... and with godaddy, i've made my ideas real. ♪ ♪ i made my own way, now it's time to make yours. ♪ ♪ everything is working, working, just like it should ♪

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