He too parachuted from his aircraft. It was a U2 reconnaissance plane shot down by a Soviet missile of Sverdlovsk on May 1,1960.

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He specifically cited an explosion at a plant near Sverdlovsk in Siberia suspected of association with the Soviet BW program.

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Sverdlovsk may be the centre of Mr Rossel's universe, but these days it looks like the middle of nowhere for foreign investors.

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But they were all the man took when he burst into the kiosk at night in the town of Novaya Lyala, in Sverdlovsk region.

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