[Mirek Wawrzynski]

In Kahn's Hitler's Spies, there is an error, twice is mentioned the same incident (15 April and early June 1941). The next one had never happend!

Soviets's sources can confirme only this first one.

regards,
mw

"The flights increased in pace, in the three weeks between 27 March and 18 April (1941), the Russians detected an average of more than three a day. On 4 April, for example, they spotted a plane at 23,000 feet that violated the border near Prezemysl at 1:20 p.m., and penetrated 75 miles into Russian-occupied territory before flying back to Germany at 1:50 p.m.. They had no illusions as to what the flights were for. In one plane, which landed near Rovno on 15 April, they found a camera, some rolls of exposed film, and a map of the Soviet Union. This may have been the plane that Rowehl sent to photograph Sverdlovsk, the leading industrial city of the Urals, almost a 3,000-mile round trip from Kirkenes in Northern Norway, and that never came back. But the Russians merely registered a protest. Even when their fighters forced down a Ju 86 that had lost altitude due to motor damage early in June, recovering the camera and all its pictures, no serious repercussions ensued."