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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000200130019-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: March 7, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2004/02/03 : CIA-RDP64B00346R0002001.3001.9-0
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o 'capture. Today this was confir .d.
"EvenSenator Richard Russell, Chairman of the to to" d Services
said he 'h-a.d not known that Powers was not under`;` to ki1.l: himself. }'t vr4 .
it was his option,whether to take a poison pin with him on the flight for
in case he was captured. Said Powers, 'Z chose to take it.' The CIA Joan N.
McCone advised the House and Senate Su,bcorr:ittees yesterday that Powers actually
had instructions to do what he could do to save his own life, if shot down or captured.
The much talked about poison needle which figured prominently at the trial, wt s tak--n
along in case of torture, or where Power!, at his own scretion might choose suicide.
"Also CIA Director John McCone told the Congressional. Committees today that the
4J-2 pilots were not spies. As he explained it, they were chosen for their aviation
,)rof"Lciency, physical stamina,, emotional stability, and of course, personal -icurity.
said McCone, they were not selected or trained as espio:lag agents, and' tr:e.
nature of the mission was far rernc ve:i from the tradition.:ol espionage scene. 'weir
job was to fly the plane, anc it w i-, so der;u,ding an assignmo.nt, said McCone, t' ,t c.:
completion of a mission, phai.cai i'at,tp,ze was a hazard on landing.
"According to the testimony 4s after;oon, Powers could not hive d.~ne
are differently. He was, and is stilt, a i ood American, accordant, to evervo,'he, and
he has been completely vin:aicitec, arid e rf .sins, accord=.n^ to the CIA, ZA, on -Ut
. ist, and will so r^c;r:ain
Approved For Release 2004/02/03 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200130019-0