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The plane had wings that were level with the top of the body + with massive engines below them. Very distinctive feature. In the side drawing the wings are near the bottom + without engines. A lot of other errors could be explained by poor skills, distance, perspective, ... But drawing wings near the bottom when they were actually at the top, can't be explained by any of those practical reasons. And it makes the drawing useless for identifying the plane.
Decades after this drawing, it turned out that the CIA had been collecting loads of double agents in the eastern block, all deliberately feeding misinformation to the CIA.