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Clue Found in Burial of Lost Spy Pilot

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From Times Wire Reports

Pentagon investigators are close to pinpointing the Russian burial site of a U.S. Air Force officer whose spy plane was shot down over the Barents Sea in July 1960, a Pentagon official said. He was lost two months after the better-known downing of Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane. Investigators in the case of Maj. Eugene Posa have found the hospital where his body was autopsied, a U.S.-Russia commission on the fate of missing U.S. servicemen said. It said it appears Posa was buried near Severomorsk, just north of Murmansk.

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