| Catalina Affair |
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| soviet airspace violations | |
| intelligence operations | |
| cold war | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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AFTERMATH The USSR denied shooting down the DC-3, but a few days later a liferaft with Soviet shell Shrapnel was found. In 1956 , while meeting the Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander , the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted that the Soviet Union had shot down the DC-3. This information was not released to the public at the time. In 1991 , the Soviet air force admitted it had shot down the DC-3. In the summer of 2003 , a Swedish company found the remains of the downed DC-3 by using Sonar . Some time later the Catalina was also found, 22 kilometers east of the official splashdown point. CONCLUSION Bullet holes showed that the DC-3 was shot down by a . To this date the remains of five of the eight-man crew have been found. |