U-2 PILOT'S SISTER WILL MAIL GIFTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 24, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00001
STATINTL
U-2 Pilot's
Sister Will
Mail Gifts
FALLS CHUR.CII - Mrs. Veril
W. Melvin of Falls Church is won-
ilermg today whether there's any
tint of Christmas holiday atmos-
tihcre in Russia to trickle into
the prison where her brother, U-21
pilot Francis Gary Powers, is
confined.
"I was sort of wondering how
I could find out whether they
have any sort of Christmas
over there," Mrs. Melvin said
today.
Mrs. Melvin 'recently received
a picture of her brother, taken
in the prison, as a Christmas me-
mento.
"Ile looked very well," the l
Palls Church Woman reported.!
"It relieved me aluite a bit . .
I didn't know wttat to expect."
She mailed a picture of her-
self, her husband and two chil-
dren to her brother in return. Lat-
er, after the holiday postal rush
is over, she plans to send a pack-
-age of cigarettes, candy and!
"anything In tins they'll let him,
have."
In the brief letter Powers sent
his sister with the photograph,
he spoke of being allowed to go
for a walk each day and get-
fing to feed pigeons.
"Mot of what he said was per-
~ nnal . . . they probably wouldn't
slow him to say too much," Mrs.
Melvin said.
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