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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 08:41 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Spokane Washington USA Monday 30 June 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/06/ironman-coeur-dalene.html
From 9/11/2001 ( the World Trade Center towers destroyed in New York City ) To 2/6/2004 ( my final day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the deputy director of the United States Marshals Service and the active duty United States Marine Corps brigadier general circa 2004 ) is 878 days
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 08:41 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Spokane Washington USA Monday 30 June 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/06/ironman-coeur-dalene.html
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/m/manchurian-candidate-script-transcript-denzel.html
Manchurian Candidate
Hello, captain.
Do you remember me?
Ben.
Hey. I'm gonna get a cab.
You want me to drop you somewhere?
No, I'm okay.
Okay. So your friend's
gonna meet you here, then?
No.
All right.
El Dorado .
It's my cell phone number,
in case you ever... You know.
I like to say it the old-fashioned way.
Can you remember or should I write it
on your chest with a Sharpie?
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http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Baltar: What exactly are you saying?
Six: Humanity's children are returning home. Today. (Outside the window, there's a bright flash of light on the horizon.)
(Galactica. Caption: Galactica Starboard Landing Bay, Decommissioning Ceremony)
Doral: I'd like to thank you all again for being here today, and Elosha, thank you very much for those wonderful words. Next is a ceremonial fly-by by the last Galactica battle squadron led by Captain Lee Adama. (Music play, ships fly over, people applaud.) And now it is my great pleasure to introduce the last commander of the Battlestar Galactica, Commander Adama. (applause)
Adama: Thank you very much. The Cylon War is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865579676/This-week-in-history-Russia-leader-Nikita-Khrushchev-reveals-the-U-2-Incident.html?pg=all
Deseret News
This week in history: Russia leader Nikita Khrushchev reveals the U-2 Incident
By Cody Carlson
For the Deseret News
Published: Wednesday, May 8 2013 5:06 p.m. MDT
On May 7, 1960, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had survived being shot down by Soviet anti-aircraft weapons. In doing so the Soviets exposed that the United States had been spying on Russia and that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had lied to cover it up.
In the mid 1950s the United States began flying the Lockheed U-2 “Dragon Lady” on reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union. The plane operated at very high altitudes, and carried an array of cameras and scientific equipment. The purpose of the flights was to gather intelligence on Soviet military installations, notably nuclear missile silos and other atomic facilities. The Central Intelligence Agency ran the operation.
Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, had assured Eisenhower that the Soviets lacked the ability to shoot down a U-2 plane, so the potential for an international incident was negligible. On the off chance that one did crash inside the Soviet Union, however, the CIA equipped its pilots with cyanide capsules so that they would not be taken alive by the Soviets.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:24 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal June 12, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Damn, I am damn close to losing a filling in one of my teeth. That is going to hurt like a sonuvabitch.
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http://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/the-cold-war/biographies/francis-gary-powers/
NATIONAL COLD WAR EXHIBITION
Francis Gary Powers
Nationality American
Birth Place Burdine, Kentucky
Date of Birth 17 August 1929
Date of Death 1 August 1977
Biography
Francis Gary Powers was born into a working class family in Burdine, Kentucky.
After graduating from Milligan College in Eastern Tennessee in 1950 he volunteered for the US Air Force. He was trained in Greenwich, Missouri and Phoenix, Arizona. He was assigned to the 468th Strategic Fighter Squadron at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia as an F-84 Thunderjet pilot. Although assigned to operational flying in the Korean War he in fact moved to the Lockheed Aircraft Company.
In 1956 he left the Air Force with the rank of Captain and soon after joined the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret U-2 spy plane programme. He went to Navada for training. The cover story was that he was employed by NASA on high-altitude sampling and weather research. In fact he was part of a secret aerial reconnaissance unit tasked with overflying Soviet and Warsaw Pact territory.
Many of the flights originated in Turkey, crossing Iran before entering Soviet air space over the Caspian Sea. They then returned over Afghanistan and Pakistan before landing back in Turkey.
In April 1960 Powers was at Peshawar in Pakistan. On 1 May he took off with a flight plan over the Aral Sea, Sverdlovsk, Kirov, Archangel, Murmansk landing in Bodo, Norway. His mission was to photograph missile launching sites and other important military establishments. Powers entered Soviet air space at 20,000m (65,000ft). His aircraft was damaged by a Soviet ground to air missile near Sverdlovsk. He parachuted to safety but was almost immediately captured. The CIA assured American President Dwight D Eisenhower that neither the pilot nor the plane could be recovered. Gary Powers had the facilities to destroy both the U-2 and its intelligence payload. He also carried a lethal dose of curare for suicide. He used none of these.
The US President issued a plausible denial but very quickly was found to be lying when the Soviet authorities produced not only the American pilot but parts of his plane.
Powers was tried for espionage on 17 August 1960. He said very little at his trial and pleaded guilty. He was convicted and sentenced to three years' imprisonment and seven years hard labour. However, on 10 February 1962, twenty-one months after his capture, he was exchanged in a spy swap for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyan Fisher (aka Rudolph Abel) at the Glienicker Bridge, Berlin, Germany.
On his return to the US Powers was criticized for having failed to destroy his aircraft and its payload and not committing suicide.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 01:19 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 24 April 2015
