This thread a bit old, but tripped over it in a another search.
I had quite a long chat with Harry Broardhurst a few years ago in the Algarve. He talked about his involvement in 'sniffing ops' with Canberras on the southern USSR boarders, before the US decided to 'takeover' and ran the U2 overflys. He said they all knew it was just a question of time before they would get caught. He also talked about the Heathrow crash, and his call from Curtis LeMay while he was recovering from ejecting at 80ft. M-B seats became the choice for F-104s.
A friend who flew fast jets gave me the other side of the coin about his rep in the force.
DW