FRIEND OF MRS. POWERS HINTS FEAR IS GROWING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060021-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 10, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-R
STATINTL
Friend of M~'Powers
Flints Fear Is Growing
MILLEDGEVILL~E, Ga., July "The reason Mrs. Powers did
9 CAP).-A friend of the fam- not release contents cif the sec-
ily of U-2 spy'plaz a pilot Fran-;ond letter," the friend said to-
cis G. Powers liiti~ed today that day, "was that she did not
there is fear aIr is not well with want anyone to speculate on the
him. 'similarity between it and the
The source,' vAig, declined to first one."
be identified, sa-a second let- The source was not surprised
ter from the p dt to his wife, when told there was specula-
Mrs. Barba a wers"did
Gtion the pilot already had been
not ring tri.' :
tried.
.,It was too
flat orie, the
force
what I mean,".
The source, a personal friend !reported en route to her sister's
of the family, e did not ,home in Albany, Ga.
read the second, gfter but that'
he was told by Nrs. Powers
that it was "a repetitious situ-
ation."
,.It just didn't. reveal any-
thing that wasil;t in the, first
letter," he said.
Mrs. Powers said in Rich- {
mond (Va.) Monday that the
second letter was dated June
28. At that time, Mrs. Powers
said she could not "detect any
means of the letter being cen-
sored."
e s4Lu.
t 'It should iliving in Milledgeville with her
her husband was
d down in Russia, was
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Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400060021-5