POWERS AWARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 17, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

Approve '&KRelease 1999/ iT71 CAN P75-0000
Pow ers award
Iii sour Oct.,
Avi.ition Wt,'k (p. 12(r1.
Jinni 'l.,ni.k! Suggests the rcation of a
f'raii.i~ G Pusscrs Ascard to urdis?idnals or
groul> .uAr n^ cign;Gcarrt contributions to
aeri it .. ? ,., .,.,;,, iu, c?. ['III near saying I'd
have (1.515, :i r, chtlc:c?nth than Powers if I'd
been cap'll" be file Russians. But I hope
I would hate. One'thing is certain in my
mind, I wouldn't want anybody to preserve
the mcnrorv of. my performance -by . an
award. I csouid want to forget it, and I
would scant my fellow countrymen to forget
it.
FRANK 'I IARN EY,
hrakcstown Road
llackcttctown, N. I.
U-2 Mission
Re. tl-' ? Pilot Aivard. :k)V Oct. 3
(p. 120". ts. Icahn Zawicki's letter pro-
J)osip, a Fiancis C. Powers Award, I be-
lieve, is comcpletcly out of order.
Mr. Zawiski states that he has never
been connected with all y asiation company
or any a'?iation service. Due to his Lick
ot'eontact witlttlic' aviation world he may
not realize that when we pay large sal-
aries we expect that the job will be dune
fully and properly... We. and I use this
expression as a taxpayer, paid Mr. Powers
$30,000.4 year to do a job and we will be
paying that salary for the next 10 years a
while he sits in a Soviet jail, with the job
uncompleted.
A part of Mr. Powers' job was to destroy
the aircraft and himself if captured or
stopped on his mission: In failing to do
his lob properly and fully he has caused
the United States world-wide embarrass-
ment and discovery of a very valuable air-
craft. -
If the job hhd been a normal one
it would have been flown by a cfptain or
lieutenant of the United States Air Force
at his normal pay rate.
Mr.,Powers knew, what lie was getting
into when he took the job and- his sal.irv
was cornmenstrate with the risk invol%,4.
To 'Air. 7awiski's question-I say no,
I would not fly; over Russia for twice the
salary as I am married man with three
children to, support, but there 'are many
unmarried men who would take the job
and accept the risk that goes with the
high salary and they- would complete the
job if. stopped in their mission.
I say that Francis C. Powers was no
cred"t to the*irc-aft hu flew.
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