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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100090068-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: May 5, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAY 5.1965
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RUSSIA HAD BEEN STOPPED AND' WOULD NOT BE RESUMED. BUT KHRUSHCHEV.
KHRUSHCHEV." THE STORY ALSO NOTED THAT THE SUMMIT MEETING IN
PARIS COLLAPSED IN THE WAKE OF THE U2 UPROAR. EISENHOWER SAID
AT. THE PARIS CONFERENCE THAT PHOTO RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS OVER
KHRUSHCHEV." THE STORY ATISIMED OHA
CONTACT BETWEEN PRESIDENT EISENHOWER AND THEN SOVIET PREMIER
' < ADVANCE) NEW ,YORK, MAY 5 (AP)-THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
ADVANCE FOR A. b. S COR T TODAY
A WASHINGTON DISPATCH NOTED THAT THE CRASH FIVE YEARS AGO
HERALD TRIBUNE SAID TODAY. .
WORLD--A'ND CAUSED A GOOD DEAL OF ANGUISH TO THE CIA," THE NEW YORK
IN A SECRET CEREMONY HAS AWARDED A MEDAL TO FRANCIS GARY POWERS,.
THE U2 PILOT WHOSE CRASH DEEP -INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION "SHOOK THE
LAST SATURDAY "CHILLED EAST-WEST RELATIONS AND ENDED ANY MEANINGFUL-
AIRCRAFT CORP., MANUFACTURER OF THE U2, RECEIVED THE MEDAL IN A
P0WEE+-t'S WHO OSTENSIBLY WAS A TEST PILOT FOR THE LOCKHEED
'STORMED OUT OF THE MEETING.
THE ' C'O)?YRI GHT STORY ALSO SAID IN ` PARTS
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WE,.DON'T COMMENT ON FORMER EMPLOYES."
CEBrBErIONY ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO AT THE CIA' S ? HEADQUARTERS IN LANGLEY,
VA HE""ACTUALLY HAD BEEN A $30,000-A-YEAR PILOT FOR THE CIA.
POWERS, NOW 35, IS NOT SUPPOSED TO WEAR THE MEDAL AND IS NOT
:SUPPOSED TO TELL ANYBODY ABOUT IT.
WHEN THE HERALD TRIBUNE ASKED A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CIA TO CONFIRM
.THF AWARD, HE REPLIED: ",NO COMMENT AT ALL.. HE'S A FORMER EMPLOYE.:
IT WAS HLLIABLY LEARNED, -HOWEVER, THAT THE SECRET MEDA
AWARDED AT .A CEREMONY ATTENDED BY SEVERAL TOP OFFICIALS.
GOVERNMENT DECORATIONS..
THE GENERAL SAID ABEL IS NOW LIVING UNDER HIS REAL NAME--WHICH
THE GENERAL DID NOT' DISCLOSE--AND ,HE .SAID ABEL: HAD RECEIVED-HIGH'
MOSCOW ABOUT SOVIET ESPIONAGE WORK DURING WORLD WAR II, SINGLED
? A SOVI T SECURITY FORCES GENERAL, DURING A TELEVISION TALk .IN
A01-IL wAS ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE..FOR THE'SOVIET UNION WHEN HE WAS
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LAST NIGHT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, SOVIET OFFICIALDOM ADMITTED THAT,
SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT IN NEW YORK CITY TO 30 YEARS PRISON.
1962 FOR THE SOVIET MASTER SPY, COL. RUDOLF ABEL. WHO HAD BEEN
POWERS, CAPTURED BY THE SOVIETS, WAS TRADED TO THIS COUNTRY IN
WEDNESDAY.
--DASH--
PRIOR TO THE DEPARTURE OF JOHN A. MCCONE AS CIA DIRECTOR. PRESIDEN
JOHNSON SWORE 'IN ADM. WILLIAM RABORN AS.THE NEW CIA DIRECTOR LAST-;',
IT IS KNOWN THAT PLANS FOR THE CEREMONY AND,- MEDAL WERE MADE .
TRIES TO AVOID; SECOND, WHY THE CIA WAITED FIVE YEARS.
WHY THE CIA WANTED TO BESTOW AN AWARD ON ITS MOST FAMOUS EMPLOYE-:41'
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THERE .WERE AT LEAST TWO MYSTERIES SURROUNDING THE MEDAL: `FIRST
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