CIA HUSHES FACTS ON U-2 PILOT'S WIFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300210063-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: April 23, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Poww wife o.!'tl~ U-2- pilot who recently returned Iron Fi ;; '
Mrs. Powers, 27, was hospital-
tied here Friday. The first re- found Mrs. Powers lying tm- acid-be?
port from Washington pol}cc conscious in her pajamas on the .fo?y and !r well Rpoo hIo
nbt asked bbr
said she had taken 28 capsules living room floor. Powers was but that 'be U
.of nentbutal. a barbltuate.?Short. with her. what > A*bi b '..caused her j:'
ly of torward,'Mrs, 4Poweru' phy. Sweeney said he 'saw no sign +"i x p:
sician at Geotgetown I3ospita% of sleeping pills and that Powers A"
D . Geo gE ~ said "we made no mention ?of them. The of owe
have. no um r, data bearin; pilot arrived at the hospital in
L. a police car a few minutes after
out the police
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Reeor~ds Bactt~eq p, !,r -' .. , his wife, Sweeney ? said. had
'wife ap.
The patro}tdUtt who invi stiga? B'oa't say Why, r spoiledl
W ihe case , Ale~candria Police Chief Rus- re,
c' that he had ,Ms lid kina- eU Hawew said he had closed .". s , :.' ; .
tioa} from) an dot, the records of the incident to ,` . Janke`
Ml urs public scrutiny at. the, request ea Rile-is
aft?.r l ? t- d Col. Pat r. Gaynor. _ t the tbb'
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co later I Qaynor, by telephone, s ~
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